Two people were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a crowded commercial area of central Tel Aviv on Friday. Police are currently conducting a manhunt for the assailant and trying to ascertain his motives. The shooter’s identity is currently the subject of a gag order, but he is...

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Hamas plans to escalate the current terror campaign against Israel with suicide bombings, sources within the Iran-backed terror organization have told Arab media. Members of West Bank sleeper cells have been instructed to seek out targets in Israel such as senior government and defense officials, Ynet reported on Thursday. A cell that had built an...

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The role of Iranian agents in perpetrating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and then covering up the investigation, must be fully probed now that the new Argentine government has scrapped plans for a joint “truth commission” with Iran, Matthew Levitt, a leading expert on...

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Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, threatened to attack Israelis Sunday in retaliation for the death of the terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was killed in an airstrike on a Damascus suburb on December 19. “The Israelis should be justifiably worried,” the Hezbollah chief said. “They should be worried along...

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The IDF has intensified efforts to collect information on ISIS-Sinai Province, the Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, after the group issued several threats against the Jewish state, Ynet reported on Sunday. Military Intelligence has added ‘heavy’ and classified operative layers to its efforts to increase and improve the...

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Iran’s violations of human rights, support for terrorist proxies, and use of anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda have escalated in the wake of the nuclear deal, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League‘s national director, wrote Wednesday in the San Diego Jewish World. Greenblatt, who previously served as a special assistant to President...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced that it broke up a large Hamas terror cell that operated an explosives laboratory and planned to carry out suicide bombings, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The majority of the cell’s members were students at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, near Jerusalem, and...

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Two Israelis were killed and one more seriously wounded after a Palestinian stabbing attack at the Jaffa Gate outside the Old City of Jerusalem today. Ofer Ben Ari, a 46-year-old Jerusalemite with two daughters, was wounded by police gunfire in the process of subduing two Palestinian terrorists who had begun stabbing passersby. Shaare Zedek Medical Center announced his death moments...

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Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas terrorist who manages the group’s operations in the West Bank, was reportedly expelled from Turkey under pressure from the United States and Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. According to the Post, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and Hamas leader Khaled...

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Twenty members of the House of Representatives, including key committee chairs, have written a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry blasting the Obama administration’s intention to bypass visa waiver restrictions that were overwhelmingly approved by Congress last week. As the Tower reported yesterday, Kerry had indicated to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that...

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