Tag: Weapons
Israel must assemble a massive new arms stockpile
Israel’s major reliance on the United States for restocking an undersized arsenal in the weeks and months after Oct. 7 has emerged as a severe strategic challenge, a former Israeli defense official told JNS...
Virginia senator: Don’t send Israel weapons ‘likely to be used in offensive military action’
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a former U.S. vice presidential candidate and former Virginia governor, is urging the White House to provide Israel with “defensive” weapons only.
The United States should not supply Israel arms that...
Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine
Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains,...
Swords into menorahs: Chanukah lamps made of weapon parts
The Israel Museum Jerusalem is home to one of the world’s largest collections of Chanukah lamps, with some 1,000 items from across the globe—from the Middle Ages to the present day. A ubiquitous Judaica object,...
Israel is facing a prolonged escalation in Judea and Samaria
Monday's murderous terrorist attack on Route 60 in Hebron, in which an Israeli woman was shot dead and a man seriously injured, is just the latest indication of the sad fact that Israel is...
Israel to build security barrier along Jordan border
The Israeli government will build a security barrier along the country's eastern border with Jordan in an attempt to thwart Iranian efforts to stir up violence, Army Radio reported on Monday.
During a closed meeting of the...
Think tank: IDF use of helicopters in Jenin ‘harbinger’ of escalation
Israel’s need to use helicopters to evacuate wounded soldiers who were hit by an improvised explosive device in Jenin is an ominous sign, according to an analysis from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
It was the first Israeli...
Israeli Navy sinks Palestinian vessel ‘smuggling arms’ to Hamas in Gaza
The Israeli Navy on Saturday night sank a Palestinian vessel sailing towards Gaza from Egypt, the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.
The vessel had entered a restricted sea area off the...
Alma Center says Moscow ‘likely turned blind eye to transfer of Russian weapons to...
Russia has likely turned a blind eye to Syrian and Iranian transfers of Russian-made weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon, a new report by an Israeli defense research center has assessed.
Maj. (res.) Tal Be’eri, head of the...
Israel Police seize 100 grenades, firearms at Lebanon border
Israeli security forces thwarted an attempt on Monday night to smuggle 100 grenades into the country from Lebanon, the Israel Police announced on Tuesday. The grenades, which were of the fragmentation type, were likely...