The Israeli Air Force carried out an air strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday against a terrorist who was affiliated with a range of jihadi groups, and who had been involved in an April 17 rocket attack from the Sinai Peninsula on the Israeli city of Eilat. Hithem Ziad...

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A Palestinian terrorist today stabbed to death an Israeli father of five at a hitchhiking post in the West Bank. The attacker had been released from Israeli custody six months ago, after serving a three year prison sentence for trying to injure and kill Israelis with rocks. The victim was...

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Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of Iran’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, warned this weekend that any Western move to assist forces seeking the overthrow of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad would trigger a regional war that would engulf Israel. Iran had previously declared that Tehran would treat any attack on Syria as...

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Echoing comments he made last week to the effect that Israel can successfully degrade Iran’s atomic program, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin told a Jerusalem Post conference this weekend that Israel could handle the aftermath of such a strike. Yadlin’s comments came after a similar evaluation provided...

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A Israeli air strike on Gaza Strip terror facilities Sunday failed to stop renewed Palestinian rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled territory. Palestinians launched rockets at Israeli civilians on Saturday and again on Monday, and now Israeli officials are warning that the Jewish state may need to take further action to...

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Hezbollah’s decision to launch a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) toward Israel today is not straightforward to understand. In that sense it’s similar to the decision to kidnap two Israeli soldiers in July 2006, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, which triggered a war. Many analysts will conclude that the organization’s...

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Israeli officials have confirmed that a drone that tried to penetrate Israeli air space today was launched from Lebanon, even as the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah rushes to deny responsibility. Hezbollah has in the past boasted about launching drones against Israel. Lebanese leaders responded by blasting the group for risking...

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News has been released that the Israeli Air Force has downed a drone, likely piloted by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, over the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa today. Hezbollah has previously attempted to penetrate Israeli airspace with drones. A video on the previous attempt is embedded below. Iran recently held...

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Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a multi-billion dollar contract to assist in constructing America’s new F-35 Mark 2 stealth fighter. The company will provide the wings: Israel Aerospace Industries will build wings for the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat jet, which Lockheed Martin Corporation will begin producing in 2015. The...

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Iran has already crossed Israel’s nuclear red line, the former head of Israeli military intelligence said Tuesday. “By the summer, Iran will be a month or two away from a decision about the bomb,” said Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, now the director of the Institute of National Security Studies,...

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