Iran crossed red line with Trump administration; US, Israel, region brace for response

January 4, 2020 by  

The American airstrike assassination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad early on Friday follows a major miscalculation on the part of Tehran in the decision to up the ante against the United States. Read more

After 50 hours of fire exchanges, Israel waits to see if Gaza Strip stabilizes

November 15, 2019 by  

A ceasefire that appeared fragile, and which was punctured twice by rocket fire from Gaza, went into effect on Thursday after 50 hours of combat between the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror faction and the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

Israel seeks to prevent further escalation on second day of conflict with Islamic Jihad

November 14, 2019 by  

Israel carefully managed its second day of conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Wednesday, keeping airstrikes focused on the suppression of Gazan rocket-launch squads, as Hamas, despite declarations, continued to sit on the sidelines. Read more

In Gaza Strip, Palestinian Islamic Jihad agitates for violence

November 6, 2019 by  

Palestinian Islamic Jihad—the second-largest armed terror faction in Gaza after Hamas—is agitating for violence, and is, in fact, the organization that conducted Friday-night’s rocket barrage on the Israeli border city of Sderot. Read more

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, backed by Iran, seeks rocket-launchers in West Bank

October 31, 2019 by  

Since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Palestinian terror factions have turned Gaza into a major rocket production zone, and they’re trying to replicate some of those activities in the West Bank, so far without success. Read more

‘Entry of radical Islamist forces into northern Syria is disturbing,’ ex-Israeli intelligence official says

October 17, 2019 by  

Israel has been closely monitoring Turkey’s brutal offensive against the Kurds in northeast Syria in recent days. Read more

Leaving Syria: A blow to US deterrence, a boost to Middle East Islamists

October 8, 2019 by  

The decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull back troops from northern Syria in the face of a likely Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces is a blow to American deterrent power in the Middle East. Read more

Creating options and opportunities for haredi youth to serve in the IDF

September 27, 2019 by  

A recent political deadlock over the issue of drafting haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youths into the Israel Defence Forces was one of the key reasons that led Israelis to the polls last week for the second time in less than six months. Read more

Blue and White’s focus shifts to unity government option after exit polls

September 18, 2019 by  

As the clocked counted down the minutes to the initial exit polls at Blue and White Party headquarters, its leaders headed out into the “field,” taking to beaches and shopping centers across central Israel urging potential voters to the ballot box. Read more

IDF foils Hezbollah’s risky attacks and its attempts to secure guided missiles

September 3, 2019 by  

Hezbollah launched a dangerous attack on an Israel Defense Forces’ base in northern Israel on Sunday—an attack that could have resulted in a rapid deterioration into a larger conflict. Read more

Israel’s campaign to disrupt the Iranian war machine in Syria continues

August 27, 2019 by  

Israeli Minister Tzachi Hanegbi: There is a “deep struggle” underway in Iran over the country’s ongoing efforts to entrench itself in Syria, and Israel publicized the latest strike to strengthen these voices. Read more

Power struggles over ‘day after Abbas’ rage largely under the surface, for now

July 24, 2019 by  

In the West Bank, a number of factions, militias and armed terror organizations have been thinking for a while now about the day after the leadership of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas comes to an end. Read more

Iran is dragging the Middle East into a dangerous standoff

June 18, 2019 by  

In recent weeks, Iran and its proxies have begun operating under a new directive best described as a policy of controlled escalation. Still, the potential for miscalculation and regionwide conflict has grown considerably. Read more

Nurses on the front line: IDF pilot program aimed at improving battlefield medicine

June 2, 2019 by  

The Israel Defense Forces’ Medical Corps is in the midst of a pilot program that places nurses and male nurses in combat battalions, as part a series of changes designed to improve the military’s medical services. Read more

Gaza remains highly flammable, despite reports of Israel’s ‘new understanding with Hamas’

May 22, 2019 by  

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12 that was aired on Tuesday evening, Israel and Hamas have reached informal new understandings, designed to allow calm to prevail in the next six months. Read more

Gaza and Israel enter shaky ceasefire; many predict it to be short-lived

May 9, 2019 by  

An ultra-violent yet brief conflict that erupted between Gazan terror factions and Israel came to an abrupt end early on Monday morning, as an unstable ceasefire took hold. Read more

Gantz’s plan for Gaza: After creating deterrence, a regional push to rehabilitate the Strip

May 7, 2019 by  

Blue and White Party leader and former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz laid out his own alternative plan for dealing with the Gazan threat during a visit to Israel’s rocket-stricken south on Sunday. Read more

Palestinian Islamic Jihad started a fire in Gaza

May 5, 2019 by  

The Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization – the second largest armed faction in Gaza – is responsible for the latest escalation in Gaza and Israel. Read more

‘Your opportunities are limitless,’ NASA astronaut tells Israel Air Force personnel

April 18, 2019 by  

As NASA astronaut Richard R. (“Ricky”) Arnold projected slides showing images of his time on board the International Space Station, a lecture hall filled with young Israel Air Force personnel sat spellbound, absorbing his every word. Read more

Hamas ‘war of attrition’ against Israel’s south could resume on ‘Land Day’

March 29, 2019 by  

Hamas is set to hold a mass march this Saturday to the Gazan-Israeli border to mark “Land Day,” an event that has the potential to transform into mass disturbances, which, in turn, could reignite Gazan rocket fire and Israeli military strikes. Read more

IDF pummels Hamas after one rocket attack too many

March 26, 2019 by  

The Hamas rocket that shattered a village home in the Sharon district of central Israel, north of Tel Aviv early on Monday morning, is an attack that for Israeli leadership represents a step too far. Read more

Rockets on Tel Aviv an escalation that could cost Hamas dearly

March 15, 2019 by  

Thursday night’s twin rocket attack on greater Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip marks a dramatic escalation of the security situation that could prove to be highly costly for Hamas. Read more

Can Israel defeat Hamas without toppling it?

February 24, 2019 by  

So far, Israel’s objectives in armed conflicts with Hamas have been limited so as to avoid the need to reoccupy Gaza or to send it down the “Somalia model” path of chaos. But there might be a third option. Read more

As its popularity is challenged, Hamas keeps watchful eye over its Palestinian rival in Gaza

January 27, 2019 by  

Tensions between Israel and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have sparked a number of armed conflicts and smaller scale flare-ups in the last decade. Yet within Gaza there is a web of internal tensions and simmering rivalries between Palestinian factions. So far, these have not posed a threat to Hamas’s iron grip on its enclave, but as its popularity is questioned, that might change one day. Read more

Six years after completion, Israel’s border fence with Egypt has transformed the south

January 13, 2019 by  

This time six years ago, Israel completed its high-tech border fence with Egypt, marking the start of a transformation in the situation along this restive frontier…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

A new Mideast order is taking shape, says ex-senior Israeli intelligence officer

January 8, 2019 by  

The era of chaos in the Middle East is drawing to a close, and a new phase, which contains its own set of dangers, is taking shape, a senior former intelligence official has told JNS…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

Is the IDF ready for all-out war? In Israel, the debate rages on

January 6, 2019 by  

The question of just how ready the Israel Defense Forces is for war has dominated Israel’s headlines in recent weeks…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

With SpaceIL launch, Israeli children can dream about ‘reaching the moon’ and beyond

January 3, 2019 by  

In 2019, a team of Israelis will make history when an unmanned spacecraft they built will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., destined for the moon. Read more

Russia struggling to stop the Iranian-Israeli shadow war in Syria

December 28, 2018 by  

It didn’t take long for the recent Israeli Air Force strikes on Iranian or Hezbollah targets in the Damascus area to receive Russian condemnation…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

Widening the Iranian corridor to Syria

December 21, 2018 by  

In responding to U.S. President Trump’s surprise announcement of a withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Syria on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu issued a brief statement that contained two messages…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

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