3+ week, 5+ day ago   (236+ words) The pilot zones in Southern Lebanon were intended to serve as a practical test of the Lebanese state’s ability and willingness, through the Lebanese Armed Forces, to implement the understandings with Israel: to establish its presence on the ground, prevent…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (887+ words) With the Oct. 27 Knesset elections a little more than two months away—and following the ruling Likud Party primary on Aug. 17—the campaign jingles are beginning to multiply. As has always been the case, most of them are cringe-inducing. Perhaps…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (525+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday to raise the Altalena from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea following the announcement that the vessel, which symbolizes a painful episode in the early history of the Jewish state, was found....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (242+ words) As the confrontation escalated, Begin repeatedly instructed his men not to retaliate against fellow Jews, including after the ship came under artillery fire. Sixteen Irgun members and three IDF soldiers were killed. Ben-Gurion would later describe the cannon used against…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (804+ words) The booby-trap blast that killed two Israeli reservists in a building in the Lebanese village of Majdal Zoun on Aug. 5 has thrown a spotlight on one of the most persistent threats facing Israeli troops operating in the security zone: explosive…...

6+ day, 52+ min ago   (233+ words) Yisrael Beiteinu Party chairman Avigdor Liberman presented his party’s slate on Sunday evening, ahead of the Oct. 27 Knesset elections. “Since we founded Yisrael Beiteinu in 1999, we have remained true to our path,” Liberman told an audience gathered at the Expo…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (843+ words) The baby should not have survived. This week, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Colombia, and a five-story residential building in Cali collapsed into a mountain of concrete and rubble. There was almost no reason to believe that anyone could possibly…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (392+ words) Attendees at Brown University’s Opening Convocation on Tuesday were greeted by speeches, bagpipes and a plane circling overhead with a large banner reading “Brown 4 Israel,” accompanied by American and Israeli flags. The Rhode Island Coalition for Israel and Brown Jewish…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (367+ words) An Israeli-designed vest could significantly reduce astronauts’ radiation exposure on the way to the Moon or Mars, according to a new study. The vest, called AstroRad and built by the Israeli company StemRad, was tested aboard NASA’s Artemis I mission…...