Israel bombs Syrian anti-aircraft battery following attack on Israeli warplane
The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed that it launched a strike against a Syrian anti-aircraft battery on Monday night, after the battery fired on an Israeli fighter jet flying a routine mission over northern...
Israel’s Technion launches $1.8 billion campaign to meet 21st-century challenges
Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology has launched a $1.8 billion global campaign to raise support for the university as it seeks to continue its focus on technological innovation well into the 21st century.
The fundraising...
Israeli F16 shot down by Syria in dramatic military escalation
An Israeli F-16 was shot down by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles and crashed in Israel’s Jezreel valley early Saturday morning, as Israel was responding to the infiltration of an Iranian drone into Israeli airspace.
The plane...
Chinese embassy in Israel apologizes for comparing virus travel ban to Holocaust
The Chinese embassy in Israel apologized for remarks made by its acting ambassador to Israel on Sunday, who compared the country’s travel ban for arrivals from China to Jews being denied international refuge during the Holocaust.
Israel...
Netanyahu to Khamenei: Those threatening Israel with destruction face similar danger
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday for using Nazi imagery to threaten Israel with destruction.
Responding to an anti-Semitic image that Khamenei shared on Twitter—a poster reading,...
Netanyahu: US settlement policy shift ‘fixes a historic wrong’
During a visit to the town of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the U.S. administration’s policy reversal on Judea and Samaria as a “huge achievement” that “fixed...
Number of coronavirus cases in Israel hits 55
Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed five new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 55.
Four of the new patients were infected through close contact with people confirmed...
‘Lucky’ bronze Roman-era oil lamp unearthed in Jerusalem
A rare bronze oil lamp, shaped like a grotesque face cut in half, was recently discovered during excavations in Jerusalem’s City of David National Park, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.
The lamp—described by...
Israeli leaders condemn communal violence across towns, cities in Jewish state
Israeli political leaders condemned communal Arab-Jewish violence raging across Israeli cities and communities on Wednesday, and called for calm.
“What is happening in Israel’s cities over the past few days is unacceptable,” Israeli Prime Minister...
‘Pay to slay’ bill backtracked by head of Netanyahu’s coalition
In what was assumed to be an obvious pass in the second reading of the “pay to slay” Knesset bill turned out to shock and dismay Israeli lawmakers as the head of the coalition,...