Reacting to the recent escalation in rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip, which included several salvos over the weekend, the Israeli Defense Forces have ordered all Israelis in rocket range to remain within 15 seconds of bomb shelters. The rocket fire comes from a mix of Al Qaeda-linked...

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Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, will reconvene Monday (Oct. 15) for the start of the fall session, where it is expected to vote immediately to dissolve itself. The move will set Israel on a path to elections scheduled for January 22, 2013 – some four years after the last ballot. In...

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora lashed out against Hezbollah on Sunday, blasting the Iranian-backed organization for trying to drag Lebanon into another war with Israel. Siniora critized Hezbollah for dispatching a drone to penetrate Israeli airspace “at an Iranian behest.” The still-developing controversy threatens to become a replay of...

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Hezbollah claimed responsibility yesterday for the unmanned aircraft shot down over Israel last weekend, with the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah boasting on Hezbollah TV that he was trying to “surprise the Zionist enemy.” He also vowed that the group would launch more drones in the future. An Iranian proxy that Lebanese opposition figures...

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi crossed the 100 day mark of his Presidency earlier this week, prompting media commentary on, among other things, his efforts to reframe Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. Al Jazeera wrote in complimentary terms about Morsi’s success in “subtly shifting the emphasis of the Camp David accords”...

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Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired Qassam and Grad rockets at multiple Israeli towns and cities yesterday, extending an escalation by the terror groups that began on Monday. TIP’s analysis of the current escalation, which bears some hallmarks suggesting that Hamas is preparing for a full-blown war of the kind...

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A Swedish ship carrying anti-Israel activists set sail from Italy on Saturday, in the latest attempt by the Free Gaza movement to breach Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. A comprehensive United Nations investigative committee concluded in 2011 that Israel’s blockade is legal under international law and that Israel...

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Jordan’s new ambassador to Israel, Walid Obeidat, was sworn in Monday by Jordanian King Abdullah despite threats from Obeidat’s clan to “disown” him if he accepted the post. Obeidat has been under immense pressure to turn down the position, with his clan offering him five million dinars and the promise...

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Iran’s Lebanon-based proxy Hezbollah raided Israeli airspace with a drone over the weekend, which was intercepted and destroyed by Israeli jets. Based on the debris from the interception, which the IDF published and can be viewed here, the drone does not appear to have been armed.The IDF responded to the...

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The security situation in southern Israel deteriorated rapidly overnight, beginning with a Palestinian terror attempt that was blocked by the IDF. The IAF targeted Gaza-based terrorists Tala’at Halil Muhammad Jarbi and Abdullah Muhammad Hassan Maqawai, both of whom had extensive history and involvement in terror activity and at least one of...

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