Israeli scientists uncover traces of fire dating over 800,000 years

Israel scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, using an advanced, innovative method they developed to detect nonvisual traces of fire, have seen the usage of fire at least 800,000 years ago, one of the earliest known pieces of evidence for the use of fire. Read more

Israel testing robotic unmanned vehicle armed with drones

Israel will begin testing an unmanned Medium Robotic Combat Vehicle (M-RCV), developed by the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), the Tank and APC Directorate, and Israeli security industries, the Ministry of Defene announced today. Read more

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan meets Pope Francis in the Vatican

On Thursday, Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan has had a rare private audience with His Holiness Pope Francis in the Vatican.

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Torah hidden in 1941 Iraqi riots presented to a Samarian synagogue

Over eight decades after Yitzhak witnessed as a boy the Farhud, the anti-Jewish riots in Iraq, he has presented an ancient Torah scroll saved from the riots to the synagogue at Havat Yair in Samaria, where his grandchildren live today. Read more

Israel unveils ‘Negba’ combat vehicle project for Special Forces

Israel unveiled the Negba project in which the Directorate of Production and Procurement (DOPP) in the Israel Ministry of Defense will purchase hundreds of combat vehicles from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the use of IDF’s Special Units. Read more

Israel’s Ambassador to UN elected Vice President of General Assembly

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan was elected on Tuesday to serve as Vice President of the 77th UN General Assembly for the coming year, despite opposition from Iran and Syria. Read more

‘I Felt Like I was in a Foreign Country for a Moment’: The Battle Against the PLO Flag in Israel

Is there something about the Palestinian flag that merits the new law restricting its display in Israel? Israelis on both sides of the question weigh in. Read more

Litzman resigns from Knesset as part of plea bargain

Member of Knesset Yaakov Litzman submitted his resignation from the Knesset on Wednesday, part of a plea agreement he signed after he admitted to the breach of trust in the Malka Leifer affair. Read more

Israel sees 600% increase in applications for firearm licenses following wave of terrorism

The number of Israelis applying for firearm licenses has increased by 600% in recent weeks following a wave of terrorist attacks in March in Israeli cities that left 19 people dead. Read more

Arab mob hijacked Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral

An Arab mob that took the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on their shoulders and by foot did so to avoid a funeral “as if a Christian woman died,” while her family had wanted her body taken by hearse to the church for the funeral and not carried through the streets of Jerusalem, Palestinian Media Watch’s (PMW) review of Al-Jazeera and PA TV recordings of the funeral shows. Read more

New segment of Roman-era aqueduct to Jerusalem uncovered

The aqueduct was the main source of water supply to Jerusalem consecutively for 2000 years. Read more

WHO singles out Israel as violator of health rights

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) held a session on Wednesday singling out Israel, which was condemned in speeches by several countries, including Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Turkey, Lebanon, and Cuba, for allegedly violating the health rights of the non-Jewish population in the Golan Heights. Read more

Israel fortifying kindergartens in vicinity of Gaza Strip

The Ministry of Defence’s Engineering and Construction Division, in cooperation with IDF’s Home Front Command, has commenced work to fortify kindergartens in the Gaza Strip area against rocket and mortar attacks. Read more

Frozen in time: 2,100-year-old agricultural farmstead uncovered in Galilee

A well-preserved 2,100-year-old, Hasmonean period agricultural farmstead containing finds that may have been abandoned in haste, was uncovered at Horbat Assad next to Nahal Arbel in eastern Galilee. Read more

Israeli researchers find experimental drug effective in treating autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease

Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered a mechanism shared by mutations in the genes ADNP and SHANK3, which cause autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions. Read more

Authorities seize 1,800 rare and ancient artifacts suspected as stolen from archeological sites

About 1,800 antique coins, jewellery and stamps, pottery plates with inscriptions, and an ancient bronze figurine were seized this week at the home of a resident of the city of Modi’in in the centre of the country, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Thursday. Read more

Israel starts to export cannabis seeds to US

After nearly a year of discussions, a shipment of cannabis seeds took off from Israel to the US on Tuesday night, the first-ever shipment of cannabis seeds from Israel to a foreign country. Read more

EXCLUSIVE: Pallbearers at funeral of Al Jazeera reporter were convicted terrorists

The funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh, a senior journalist and one of the icons of the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, was a show of forces by the Fatah movement in eastern Jerusalem, and the pallbearers were convicted terrorists, TPS has learned. Read more

Turkish flight aborts takeoff from Israel following threatening messages to passengers

A flight from Ben Gurion Airport to Turkey was grounded and delayed on Tuesday after many passengers received threatening messages on their phones. Read more

​’UN credibility at stake’: UN’s Palestine investigator accepts PLO award, watchdog protests

Outgoing UN investigator on Palestine Michael Lynk violated United Nations neutrality rules by accepting an award from Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, the human rights group UN Watch charged, calling on US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to demand that Lynk return it. Read more

Two terrorists from fatal Elad attack captured alive

The two Arab terrorists who carried out the massacre in Elad on Thursday night were captured alive Sunday morning by Israel’s security forces. Read more

Putin ignores recent tensions over Ukraine in Independence Day greetings to Israel

Some in Israel are speculating that the Russian government may be looking to put the past week’s tensions aside and try to restore better relations with the State of Israel. Read more

MDA opens Israel’s national missile-resistant underground blood bank

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s emergency medical service, inaugurated on Monday the world’s first subterranean, and shielded national blood services centre in Ramla, Israel, planned to withstand missile attacks during a war. Read more

IDF soldier with special needs to receive President’s Award of Excellence on Israel’s 74th Independence Day

An IDF soldier with disabilities who enlisted through a special program will make history this week on Israel’s Independence Day when he becomes the first soldier with special needs to be honoured by the president for his outstanding contribution to the IDF. Read more

2,300-year-old clay candle uncovered at Samaritan high priesthood compound in Samaria

Conservation work being carried out at the Mount Gerizim site in Samaria led to the uncovering of an ancient pottery candle, estimated to date to the Hellenistic period in the second century BCE. Read more

Bullet in the mail for Prime Minister Bennett and his family

Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett has received a death threat in the mail levelled at both himself and his family. Read more

PA Imam calls to exterminate Jews

An Imam in the Palestinian Authority (PA) led a prayer in the Al-Ain Mosque in El-Bireh, near Ramallah, last week broadcasted on PA TV in honour of the Muslim month of Ramadan, during which he called for the extermination of Jews. Read more

Violence threatened and PA alleges ‘Judaization and ethnic cleansing’ on Temple Mount

Senior Islamic Jihad official Muhammad Shalach said in an interview Sunday that the terror factions in Gaza Strip are “determined to respond at all costs” if Israel causes a large number of casualties, a “massacre” as he put it, during the IDF’s counterterrorism operation in Jenin, or if a Passover offering is sacrificed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Read more

Noa Tishby appointed Israel’s first ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has announced the appointment of the country’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. Israeli artist, author and model Noa Tishby will be the first person to fill the newly-established position. Read more

Ultra-orthodox city to name street after Israeli-Christian cop killed defending it

The Council of the Ultra-Orthodox city of Beni Brak approved a proposal to commemorate Amir Khoury, an Israeli-Christian police officer who was killed last month while confronting a terrorist who was on a shooting rampage in the city. Read more

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