Although the security situation in Jerusalem and other areas in Israel has calmed somewhat in recent days, Palestinian incitement and calls for terrorist acts against Israelis are continuing. The Hamas movement called Thursday (Twitter Arabic link) on Arabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem to do all they can “to defend...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced Thursday that it had broken up a “wide-ranging” Hamas terror plot run by Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas official who lives and operates openly in Turkey. CNN reports that more than 30 suspects were arrested after authorities investigated a series of explosions...

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Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy expressed his opposition to the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state ahead of next week’s French parliamentary vote according to a report Wednesday in The Times of Israel: “I will fight for the Palestinians to have their state. But unilateral recognition a few days after a...

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Armed, trained and funded by Iran, the Shi’ite terrorist organization Hezbollah has modified some of the tactics that characterized its fight against Israel in its recent clashes with Syrian opposition groups, The Tower has learned from review of Arab media reports. Changes include a repositioning and fortification of bases, increased...

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Data virtualization company Primary Data has announced that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will serve as chief scientist of the Israeli-American data virtualization company. Wozniak, who is fondly known as ‘Woz’, will counsel Primary Data on technology vision and architecture, and advocate the company’s story with technology innovators around the globe....

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Reports emerged Friday morning that at least 30 Hamas members had been arrested in the West Bank in recent weeks for planning a series of terror attacks against Israeli targets. Senior Palestinian officials told veteran Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff that the expansive West Bank network was both funded and...

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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced his resignation today. The move was first reported by The New York Times: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel handed in his resignation on Monday, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and the struggles of his national...

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Iranian sources have revealed that Iran supplied the terrorist organization Hezbollah with a new missile containing a large warhead that it claims can reach the Dimona nuclear reactor in southern Israel, the Ya-Libnan news site reported at the weekend, citing an Iranian news agency. The FARS news agency, which is affiliated with the...

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Wix, a globally successful do-it-yourself web development platform recently named “hottest Middle Eastern startup” by Inc. magazine, will air its first-ever Super Bowl ad during NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, February 1. The Israeli company has run direct-response TV advertising campaigns for the past two years in the US,...

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Iran has made no significant concessions in its negotiations over its nuclear program, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said today. Steinitz made his remarks in a conference call organized by The Israel Project, which publishes The Tower. A recording of the call is available here. Steinitz noted that Iran has made “some...

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