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Israeli border wall Company that built wall around Gaza saw shares soar after Trump victory

Share Tweet . The Israeli company that built a border wall around Gaza saw its shares soar when President-Elect Donald Trump won the presidency. Magal Security Systems Ltd. had been hoping for a...

Israel preparing for one-sided UN Security Council resolutions

Share Tweet Israeli Ambassador to UN tells Arutz Sheva of specific plans in UN Security Council to make last-minute push before Obama leaves office. Some members of the United Nations Security...

Trump advisor: ‘West Bank settlements are not an obstacle to peace’

Share Tweet President-elect Donald Trump does not condemn Jewish building over the pre-1967 lines, nor does he believe in dictating the terms of any peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinian, a...

Today: UN to condemn Israel 10 times; 3 for the rest of world combined

Share Tweet GENEVA, Nov. 8, 2016 – The U.N. General Assembly began voting today on 10 resolutions against Israel, and three for the rest of the world combined, with one each scheduled to be adopted...

Israel’s Arab soldiers who fight for the Jewish state

Share Tweet It is dawn in the Negev desert and Mahmud Kashua is saying his first prayers of the day – a gun by his side. Mahmud is one of a growing number of Israeli Arabs who have volunteered...

UNESCO on the Temple Mount

Share Tweet Palestinians’ preoccupation with ancient history has little to do with culture or science and everything to do with politics The sun rotates around the world. The world is flat. There...

Exit poll: Trump beats Clinton among Israeli-American absentee voters

Share Tweet . If American citizens in Israel were to choose the next president of the United States, Republican nominee Donald Trump would win the election, according to the results of an exit poll...

Exclusive: Donald Trump reveals his plan to support Israel in 16 points. There will be no Palestinian state

Share Tweet . A few days before the US presidential election, the Donald Trump of advisors out the official positions of the candidate about Israel. This Wednesday, November 2, 2016, they published...

In Plea to Join PLO, Hamas Emphasizes Commitment to Terror

Share Tweet A top official of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has called for its inclusion in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), an umbrella group internationally recognized as the...

Traumatized US vets find healing in Israel

Share Tweet Matching former IDF combat soldiers to US counterparts, Heroes to Heroes initiative has its first trip for American women suffering from PTSD as a result of their service As Bibiana...

Mr. President, and what if the Israelis are right?

Share Tweet Should U.S. President Barack Obama allow the U.N. Security Council to adopt a resolution against the settlements, he would effectively ratify the unfortunate U.N. resolution falsely...

India, the UN vote, the Temple Mount and Ayodhya

Share Tweet We need to understand that the Temple Mount is to the Jews is what the Ram Janmobhoomi Temple at Ayodhya is to the Hindus. Both sites are central to the history and belief of a religion....

Palestinian campaign vs Balfour shows hostility to Jewish state undimmed after 100 years

Share Tweet Op-ed: Netanyahu always claims Palestinian opposition to Jewish sovereignty anywhere, not just to occupation and settlements, lies at the root of the conflict. The PA’s new battle...

Israel has every right to refuse a 1967 withdrawal

Share Tweet Former FM director-general: Since 1973 the US has assured Israel it won’t back changes to UNSC 242. US support for a United Nations Security Council resolution to replace 242 would...

The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel

Share Tweet Communists in the east and leftists in the west were active enemies of the Jewish state. The historian Jeffrey Herf’s profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing...

Modi praises Indian Army for surgical strikes, compares it to Israel

Share Tweet The world took note of the army’s capability after last month’s “surgical strikes” on militant bases in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday,...

The sickness of narrative thinking

Share Tweet Source: Ynet Op-ed: In recent years, the truth has fallen casualty to storytelling; the Palestinian narrative of the Nakba must not over ride the truth that the Arab armies came to try...

Top Hamas Official: We Must Further Enhance Ties With Iran; Palestinian ‘Resistance’ Ready to Enter Real Battle With Israel

Share Tweet Source: The Algemeiner A top Hamas official called for the bolstering of his group’s ties with Iran and issued a threat to Israel, in an interview with the Islamic Republic’s...

2 Israelis die of injuries after Jerusalem shooting attack

Share Tweet Source: Times of Israel  Police officer, bystander succumb to wounds after attack near capital’s Ammunition Hill; 5 others hospitalized   Two Israelis who were gravely injured in...

10 Facts About The Arab-Israeli Conflict you probably did not know

Share Tweet Fact #1: Jews have been living in Israel continuously for over 3,000 years Fact #2: One quarter of Israeli citizens are not Jewish Fact #3: Israel has repeatedly accepted the two state...

Palestinian Human Rights Activist Calls Out Arab ‘Leadership’

Share Tweet Source: Heather Robinson Bassem Eid, founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (PHRMG), spoke boldly last week in Manhattan at an event hosted by The Lawfare Project, a...

What you need to know about Israel’s Christian minority

Share Tweet Source: JNS.org In the Gatestone Institute’s August report on Christian persecution, Raymond Ibrahim described the brutal, rampant and global Islamic persecution of Christians and other...

A Look Inside the Latest Gaza Women’s Flotilla

Share Tweet Source: Tablet Last week, many world leaders flocked to Israel to pay their last respects to the late Shimon Peres. This week brings a very different breed of visitor: about two dozen...

Planned Hezbollah terror attacks in Haifa thwarted

Share Tweet Source: Ynet 6 residents of the village of Ghajar, among them three brothers and their cousin, are suspected of smuggling explosives from Lebanon to be used in attacks in northern Israel;...

Arab Israelis Defy Knesset Reps, Pay Condolence Call to Family of Late Elder Statesman Shimon Peres

Share Tweet Source: The Algemeiner  A group of some 150 Arab Israelis paid a condolence call on Tuesday to the family of the late former President Shimon Peres, just days after Arab Knesset members...

Poll: Israelis More Troubled by Cost of Living than War

Share Tweet . For openers, according to the new survey conducted by Prof. Camil Fuchs on behalf of Walla, with a representative sample of 646 respondents, (542 Jews, 104 Arabs), 56% of the...

Double Standards for Aleppo and Gaza

Share Tweet Make no mistake, the carnage taking place in Aleppo right now is a disgrace to the international community. The Syrian government and Russian-backed forces are reportedly using...

Separation is not the Answer

Share Tweet BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 368 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Contrary to the accepted wisdom regarding the effectiveness of barriers, there is no substitute for troops on the ground and for...

India’s steadfast friend in Israel

Share Tweet Peres, who planted seeds of bilateral ties and sprang a shock, is dead On his last visit to India just under six months after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, Shimon Peres wanted to...

The head of Hezbollah has found someone he hates even more than Israelis

Share Tweet If there were any doubt as to just how toxic sectarian politics has become in the Middle East, the latest statement from the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shia militant group...

Netanyahu’s invitation

Share Tweet Source: Saudi Gazette The Palestinians should not be too quick to dismiss the invitation extended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to...

The Oslo Disaster

Share Tweet Prof. Efraim Karsh, the incoming director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, indicts the Oslo diplomatic process as “the starkest strategic blunder in Israel’s...

Judge admonishes Facebook in terror victim lawsuit

Share Tweet At a hearing for a class action lawsuit against Facebook for incitement by Israeli victims of terrorism, Judge Nicholas Garaufis accuses Facebook of not doing enough to stop incitement...

Netanyahu, 15 African leaders meet in NYC, discuss tech ties

Share Tweet African leaders thank the Israeli prime minister for “very important” cooperation • Netanyahu: Israeli technology is on its way to help your countries • Israeli, African...

‘Axing Hamas from EU terror list would be lowest point for European Jews since Holocaust’

Share Tweet Source “One only has to open up their proudly written charter to read that they seek bloodshed and terror and even aspire to the genocide of Jewish people worldwide,” says EJC...

Chuck Schumer: Anti-Semitism in too many European homes

Share Tweet Speaking at the Israeli American Council’s 2016 National Israeli American Conference, New York Senator Chuck Schumer (Democrat) lambasted efforts to delegitimize and boycott the Jewish...

For First Time, Kuwaiti Delegation Stays to Listen to Israeli PM Speak at UN

Share Tweet In a potential sign that Israel’s ties with the Sunni Arab axis in the Middle East are indeed getting stronger, the Kuwaiti United Nations delegation — for the first time in history...

Why Abbas Won’t Accept Bibi’s Offer

Share Tweet Source During his address to the United Nations General Assembly that seemed largely a challenge to the organization’s legitimacy—he described its organs as s a “moral farce,”...

Syria says Israeli ‘terrorism’ threatens entire region

Share Tweet Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Saturday condemned Israel’s strikes in southern Syria, saying the IDF’s “aggressive policies do not only threaten Syria but the whole...

Israeli Doctor Joins ISIS, Gets Killed

Share Tweet Barzilai hospital searched for its resident doctor-turned-terrorist after he disappeared and discovered that he changed professions. Front Image: ISIS flags in Nazareth in the Israeli...