Reports surfaced over the weekend that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) had announced it had reformed the caliphate – an Islamic state stretching across the region – headed by ISIS chief Abu Bakr al Baghdadi: In the statement—released in Arabic, English, German, French, and Russian—ISIS claimed...

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Israeli officials, world leaders, and supporters of Israel worldwide have condemned the killings of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frankel, whose bodies were discovered earlier today near Hebron. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the beginning of tonight’s security cabinet meeting: “With heavy grief, this evening we found three...

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Israeli officials announced Monday evening that the bodies of three Israeli teenagers – kidnapped earlier this month by terrorists affiliated with Hamas – had been found north of the West Bank town of Hebron. Searches for the boys had been ongoing for weeks, and the developments opened up a flood...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the Palestinian Authority’s continued granting of substantial monthly salaries and grants upon the release of incarcerated terrorists. These monthly salaries range from $3,500 to $25,000. The terrorists’ salaries and grants are determined by the number of years that they spent in an Israeli prison for their...

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In the wake of increased rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel’s southern population centers, Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar announced an agreement with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Tuesday night. The Jerusalem Post reports: “There will be no security for the Zionists over and under the land,” Zahar said in a...

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On Tuesday NGO Monitor, a watchdog group monitoring the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), called on European funders of Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) to exercise greater care in funding the organization in light of Israel’s declaring the organization illegal due to IRW’s support of Hamas. According to a statement released by...

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Five rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza Tuesday evening. Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system before they could explode in populated areas. One of the rockets fell short and exploded in a Palestinian home in Gaza. The blast from that rocket killed...

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A mortar or anti-tank missile fired from Syria killed an Israeli teenager and seriously wounded his father south of the Kuneitra crossing on the Golan Heights. The boy, identified as Mohammed Karkara, was apparently accompanying his father to work with a civilian crew doing maintenance work on the border fence....

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro visited the parents of 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, the Israeli high school student who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists along with two other Israeli teenagers. The Fraenkels hold dual Israeli-American citizenship. Shapiro said he “offered the strong support of the US government, our people, and...

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Overnight Israel conducted sweeping arrests of over 80 Hamas operatives as the Israeli army dragnet continues in the search for three teenage students kidnapped by terrorists, with efforts concentrated around the city of Hebron, 16 miles south of Jerusalem, according to reports. The three, Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gil-Ad Shayer, 16, and Naftali Frenkel,...

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