While Israel has facilitated reconstruction efforts in Gaza, political infighting between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has prevented supplies from reaching the people who need them, according to a report written by Neri Zilber and published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy today. Zilber writes: According to the...
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Egyptian sources claim that the large scale counter-terrorism operation carried out by the Egyptian army against insurgents in the northern Sinai Peninsula is achieving positive results. The operation has intensified since the Islamist terrorist group called Sinai Province carried out a series of coordinated attacks that killed more than 30...
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In recent weeks, Israel-based aid organization IsraAID has been stepping up its program to aid Yazidi and Christian displaced persons in northern Iraq. More than 18,000 Yazidis and Christians are living in camps after fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). One of those displaced people Shehab,...
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A company with Israeli ties dedicated the largest solar field in Africa on Thursday. The solar field was built in Rwanda by Gigawatt Global, whose president is Israeli solar power pioneer Yosef Abramowitz, in Rwanda. The land for the solar field is owned by the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. The youth village...
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An Iranian diplomat was expelled from Uruguay two weeks ago after a bomb detonated near the Israeli embassy there, according to a report published in Ha’aretz today. Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the...
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President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy shows a consistent favoritism of Iran, according to an analysis written Monday by Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute. Citing the 2006 report of the Iraq Study Group, Doran’s central thesis is that Obama has embrace the report’s conclusion that Washington should work more closely...
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Along with his Ivy League diplomas, a second-grade “master gardener” certificate hangs on the wall of Rehovot patent attorney Sandy Colb’s office. Now 66, the former Cleveland schoolboy went on to cultivate a unique farm-based philanthropy. Through his Tov V’Hameitiv Foundation, Colb partners with 70 Israeli social-service agencies to distribute...
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The Jordanian government announced on Monday that its ambassador to Israel will return to Tel Aviv. According to The New York Times, the ambassador, Walid Obeidat, is scheduled to arrive back in Israel this week. The Jerusalem Post reported that “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the Jordanian decision, calling it...
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Egypt became on Sunday the first Arab country to designate the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a faction of Hamas, as a terrorist group. The court that made the designation accused the Hamas branch of launching terrorist attacks to support the Muslim Brotherhood and executing a bombing that killed 33 security personnel in...
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Both Iran and Hezbollah are threatening worldwide retaliation against Israel after the January 18 deaths of a number of Hezbollah terrorists and Iranian military officers, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that was published Sunday. Shapira noted that in many news reports, Hezbollah was...
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