Monthly Archives: December 2019
‘The world doesn’t realize the extent of the tunnel threat’
“The next war will be urban, dirty, underground,” predicts John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies and co-director of the Urban Warfare Project at the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at...
High Court delays decision on Netanyahu’s legal right to form a new government
Following a preliminary hearing on Tuesday by Israel’s High Court of Justice on the question of whether an indicted lawmaker can be tasked with forming a government, a three-judge panel ruled that a decision...
Gas pumping from Israel’s offshore Leviathan field gets underway
Gas pumping from Israel’s Leviathan offshore natural gas field got under way on Tuesday after Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry said Noble Energy and its partners had met all necessary conditions, despite ongoing protests from...
US-Iran tensions could spill over into a proxy attack on Israel, experts warn
The unusual American attack on Sunday evening on the Shi’ite militia known as the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq has put the various militias that Iran has established in recent years in Syria and Iraq on edge...
Shi’ite militia supporters storm US embassy compound in Iraq
Dozens of Iraqi Shi’ite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, setting fire to a reception area.
An Associated Press reporter saw the flames from inside the compound, and said...
Number of Jews visiting the Temple Mount on Hanukkah increased by 50 percent
During Hanukkah this year, there were 50 percent more Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem compared to last year. According to Temple Mount organization Yaraeh, more than 1,200 Jews visited the site....
Jewish groups, 2020 presidential candidates react to Monsey machete attack on Hanukkah
Jewish groups and politicians, including all of the 2020 presidential candidates, expressed condemnation in the aftermath of a black male carrying a long machete allegedly entering a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi...
Supreme Court to hear petition on Netanyahu’s legal right to form a new government
A three-judge panel of Israel’s Supreme Court is set to hear a petition on Tuesday calling to invalidate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a coalition following upcoming March elections due to three...
Following anti-Semitic attack, Monsey’s Jewish community will not be ‘cowed’ to change
Less than 24 hours after five people were stabbed at a rabbi’s home on Forshay Road in Monsey, N.Y., Jews gathered on the lawn to sing and dance as a Torah scroll was dedicated...
Israeli scientists shed new light on how the brain functions
How does the brain work? What is the connection between its structure and its functioning? A team of Israeli scientists from the Technion Institue of Technology, in cooperation with colleagues from the US and France, has...