Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again rejected overtures from Israel to rehabilitate relations, which Turkey froze in 2010 after Israel intercepted a terrorist-linked Turkish vessel trying to breach Israel’s legal blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Passengers aboard the MV Mavi Maramara attacked Israeli commandos who were boarding...

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The Israeli Air Force met Greek counterparts for a joint exercise in Greek air space to simulate a rescue operation. The event, which included exchanges on tactics and principles, follows a joint naval exercise between the two countries that took place in July. Relations between Greece and Israel, which have...

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey is in Israel to oversee the Austere Challenge joint military exercise. The drill – which brings together Israeli soldiers with 3,000 American troops spread across Israel, Europe, and the United States – simulates missile attacks on Israeli cities and tests...

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Hamas claimed credit for some of the scores of rockets fired towards Israeli civilians over the last week and weekend. A series of barrages over the weekend saw 20 rockets hitting Israel on Sunday night and early Monday. Schools were canceled and over one million Israeli residents, including around 40,000...

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Sudanese officials are continuing to lash out against Israel for mysterious explosions that destroyed a Sudanese weapons factory earlier this week. Khartoum is insisting that the factory was bombed by Israel’s air force, a charge that Israeli officials have yet to comment on. McClatchy news service did, however, quote Israeli...

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A bomb attack on the border between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip critically wounded an Israeli officer overnight, increasing tensions after weeks of escalating rocket and mortar barrages which have targeted Israeli civilians. The cross-border attack comes as disturbing parallels emerge between Hamas’s current campaign and its provocation of...

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The United States and Israel will conduct their largest joint military exercise ever, dubbed Austere Challenge, later this month. More than 3,500 Americans and 1,000 Israelis will participate in a three-week drill tackling threat scenarios and focusing in part on the two allies’ coordinated air defense systems. In addition to...

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One year after the exchange deal that saw kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned to Israel from Hamas captivity, Shalit gave his first public interview about the ordeal. Israel yesterday permitted 18 Palestinian security prisoners released under the Shalit deal to re-enter the West Bank per the terms of the...

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The Israeli army will send enlistment notices to 15,000 ultra-Orthodox youths currently attending religious schools in the coming weeks, part of an effort inside Israel to fully integrate all citizens into the state’s civil and military institutions. Existing ultra-orthodox army battalions will be expanded to accommodate the new enlistees, though...

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A diplomatic spat between Sweden and Israel bubbled to the surface overnight in the aftermath of reports outlining how Sweden sought to block European Union sanctions on Iran in order to protect a business deal between Tehran and the Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt took to...

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