In Could Israel Get Booted Out of Soccer?, which is published in the June 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, assistant editor Aiden Pink explores the dynamics behind the Palestinian effort to suspend Israel from FIFA, the governing body of international soccer. The campaign is being led by convicted terrorist Jibril Rajoub,...

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A military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened on state television that Iran, with help from Hezbollah, could destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported today. The Shiite militia has more than 80,000 rockets ready to fire at Tel Aviv and Haifa, said General Yahya Rahim...

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The United States Department of Defense approved a massive $1.9 billion arms deal with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The deal would add “thousands of bombs, air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles” to Israel’s arsenal for self-defense needs. The deal still requires Congressional approval. The details of the possible sale were...

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Thousands of Gazans receive treatment in Israeli hospitals every year, the Associated Press (AP) reported yesterday. According to the report, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit (COGAT) has issued roughly 27,000 permits for Gaza residents—including both patients and their families—to receive medical treatment in Israel and elsewhere. According to the...

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Hackers use “spear phishing” to acquire usernames, passwords and credit-card details. They target specific individuals within an organization, using information available on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, or stolen from an acquaintance of the target, to create messages that appear real. The answer to the spear phishing scourge,...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, for opposing the Palestinian move to suspend Israel from the organization, The Times of Israel reported today. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday met with FIFA President Sepp Blatter, praising the soccer chief for opposing a Palestinian...

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The United States should transfer Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP), otherwise known as “bunker busters,” to Israel, as well as planes that can launch them, in order to deter Iran’s nuclear program more effectively, U.S. Representatives Grace Meng (D – N.Y.) and Lee Zeldin (R – N.Y.) wrote in an op-ed in The New...

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When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited the sukkah of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot last October, he was treated to a demonstration of a machine the government has given to Bedouin families to convert organic waste into clean bio-gas for cooking, heating, and...

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Hezbollah has embedded its significant terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanese villages, risking the lives of thousands of civilians in the event of another war against Israel, according to a senior Israeli military official quoted in The New York Times Wednesday. Viewed from the air, Muhaybib looks like a typical southern...

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A new Tel Aviv University study shows how the complex process of crystallization through supercooling could revolutionize the delivery of drugs in the human body, providing a way to “freeze” the drugs at an optimal time and location in the body. The new study, published in Scientific Reports, is the...

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