Intrigue continues to swirl around events last week in which Israel appears to have targeted advanced Syrian anti-aircraft SA-17 missiles that Jerusalem suspected of being bound for Hezbollah. Inconclusive reports described strikes on both a convoy of the missiles and on a Syrian military facility. New reports based on Syrian television broadcasts indicate...

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Israeli diplomats and politicians, including elected officials from the center-left Labor party that will lead the next Israeli opposition, are blasting the UN Human Rights Council for a series of recent diplomatic attacks on Israel and Israeli policy. Member of the Knesset Dr. Nachman Shai describes the body’s focus on Israel, which...

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Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq has described as “baseless” reports that the Iran-backed terror group is prepared to accept the existence of Israel. The denial was echoed by Hamas legislator Salah Bardaweel, who denied that the group was ready to accept a two state solution and further delineated between accepting...

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Syria’s ambassador to Lebanon has reserved for Damascus the ability to launch a “surprise retaliation” against Israel, a day after reports emerged of multiple Israeli Air Force operations designed to bolster Israel’s “red line” against the transfer of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal. Reports first emerged early Wednesday that Jerusalem had struck...

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Israeli Air Force jets conducted an overnight strike against a convoy of advanced weapons being transferred from Syria to Damascus’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah, according to reports that emerged early Wednesday. Israeli officials and international analysts have been expressing increasingly pointed concerns regarding the security of Syria’s nonconventional arsenal, which is...

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An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for an attack last week that killed at least 42 people. The al-Nusra Front, which has declared that the United States and Israel are enemies of Islam and is considered to be a terrorist organization by those countries, announced the group’s responsibility for the car...

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Nearly twice as many Israelis were injured by terror attacks in 2012 than in 2011, according to a report by the Israel Security Agency. Domestically, most of the fatalities and injuries were the result of attacks from the Gaza Strip in October and November of 2012. The Palestinian terror group Hamas...

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The final tally in Israel’s election has slightly altered exit poll predictions, increasing by one the total seats allocated to the Jewish Home party (now at 12) and adding to the Knesset the centrist Kadima party. The latter secured sufficient votes to pass Israel’s minimum threshold to enter the Knesset and...

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With voting concluded in Israel’s January 22 election, projections indicate that both the incoming Israeli government and the likely opposition will be led by parties that endorse a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As predicted by almost all polling going back months, the results were divided between a center-right...

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Israel’s three major news television stations tonight released exit poll results projecting that the country’s 19th Knesset will be dominated by parties clustering around the Israeli political center. The announcements come after months during which analysts predicted Israelis were preparing to vote into power the most right-wing government in the country’s...

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