French, British, German intel experts to examin Iranian nuke documents in Israel

British, German and French gov’t officials & intelligence experts are expected to arrive in Israel shortly to study the seized Iranian nuclear program documents that the Mossad smuggled out of Iran.
• U.N. atomic agency declines to address issue directly.

By Eldad Beck, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Senior European officials said Tuesday that the new information Israel has revealed on Iran’s nuclear aspirations could impact the ongoing talks to revise the 2015 deal ahead of the May 12 deadline set by the United States.

In January, U.S. President Donald Trump gave France, Germany and Britain three months to revise what he has called “disastrous flaws” in the accord, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Continue Reading »

Palestinian leader “Drenched in Antisemitism” spews revisionist history

Monday’s diatribe at a meeting of the PLO Central Council by Mahmoud Abbas, was drenched in hateful allegations from the ‘reasons’ why Jews were massacred by Christians, to arguing Israel was a “colonial project with no relationship to Judaism.”
• Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett: The Palestinian leader is “drenched in antisemitism from head to toe.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Reacting angrily to a controversial speech made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) said Wednesday that the Palestinian leader was “drenched in antisemitism from head to toe.”

“Abbas’s body is drenched with antisemitism, from head to toe. Continue Reading »

NBC attributed unnamed US official alleging Israel behind Syrian air strike

Israel Air Force F-16i (Sufa) - Photo Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's office

Anti-Trump U.S. TV media outlet attributes ‘unnamed source’ as government official alleging Israel’s Air Force behind Monday’s airstrike in Syria that destroyed a massive cache of Iranian supplied ground-to-air missiles, that also killed a score of Iranian soldiers.

By i24NEWS

 

US officials said on Tuesday that Israel was responsible for a massive airstrike on Sunday targeting a Syrian air base and estimated that it left two dozen Iranians dead.

The officials, quoted anonymously by NBC, said an Israeli strike on the 47th Brigade base near the city of Hama used F-15 fighter jets and targeted weapons recently delivered from Iran. Continue Reading »

Giro d’Italia cycling Grand Tour begins Friday, in Jerusalem

For the first time, the most prestigious sporting event ever hosted in Israel, the Giro d’Italia cycling Grand Tour will start their race in Jerusalem on Friday.
• The event features 4-time Tour de France champ Christopher Clive Froome, OBE, the British cyclist racing for the UCI ProTeam Team Sky.

By Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

After resolving a brief crisis over the status of its capital, Israel is ready to finally get things underway this week with its historic hosting of the Giro d’Italia cycling race.

The world’s best riders will start the race in Jerusalem on Friday in the first time a cycling Grand Tour will ever be held outside Europe. Continue Reading »

Former Defense Minister: Israel’s borders with Lebanon/Syria unprepared for war

In an Army Radio interview, the former Defense Minister MK Amir Peretz, told his listeners, “We have to invest close to NIS 2 billion ($560M) so that we will be prepared on the northern front.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The north is unprepared for an escalation with Iran, should it occur, said MK Amir Peretz (Zionist Union), who served as minister of defense during the Second Lebanon War, on Tuesday. Israel’s main problem, he added, is Iran trying to “incite threats in Syrian territory.”

“A central point is that in the North, we are not prepared from the perspective of defending the home front, we have a lot to do,” he told Army Radio. Continue Reading »

Israel passes law allowing PM & Defense Minister to declare war

As Israel’s Knesset begins its summer session, propose law spearheaded by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Avi Dichter passes, 62 MKs to 41, permitting only the PM & DM to give green light in declaration of war.
• Justice Minister Shaked, “We must adapt ourselves to the present state security requirements.”
• Joint List MK Aida Touma-Suleiman, “The bill will enable two people to take not only the State of Israel into war, but all the countries in the region.”

By Moran Azulay and Shahar Hay

 

The Knesset passed a law Monday evening that will transfer authority from the government to the cabinet—and in some case to the prime minister and defense minister only—to declare war and to launch military operations. Continue Reading »

Watch: Netanyahu exposes nuke deal based on lies, ‘Iran lied big time’

Israel’s Prime Minister reveals trove of intelligence on Iranian nuclear program during live press conference in Jerusalem, exposing their hidden intentions to destroy Israel, and how Iran misled all concerned when negotiating signed nuclear deal led by President Obama.
• Watch video of Netanyahu’s press conference.

By Gary Willig

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed intelligence from Iran’s secret nuclear files Monday night.

In his address, Netanyahu said that “Iran lied big time” when Iranian leaders denied that the Islamic Republic had a program to develop nuclear weapons.

“After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files.” Continue Reading »

Future Saudi King blames Palestinians as ‘main obstacle to peace’

Saudi Crown Prince tells Palestinian leader to “shut up and stop complaining” after having purposely “missed opportunities again and again, and rejected all the offers it was given.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

Saudi Arabia’s future king, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, apparently sees the Palestinian leadership as the primary obstacle to peace in the Holy Land.

That according to an Israel Channel 10 News report on the prince’s meeting with Jewish leaders in New York last month.

According to remarks attributed to the Saudi leader, he mercilessly criticized the Palestinian Authority for failing to make peace with Israel over the 40 years of the current peace process. Continue Reading »

Assad’s army destroying Palestinian camp to cleanse area of ISIS

UNRWA has expressed shock at the devastation of the once thriving Palestinian suburb of Damascus, with Yarmouk turned into a concrete jungle of destruction.
• Since “it’s [the] Assad regime [and not Israel] let’s keep the focus on ISIS,” an official at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies tweeted cynically.

BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

For a week, the Syrian regime has bombarded the Palestinian refugee camp and neighborhood of Yarmouk in southern Damascus.

Fears have risen about the fate of the thousands trapped between infighting between the regime and armed groups such as Islamic State and Hayet Tahrir al-Sham, which captured most of the camp in 2015. Continue Reading »

Syrian Bases Attacked in Missile Strike, 40 dead, including Iranians

In a strike on Syrian army bases being used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, hitting weapons warehouses among multiple targets, was so massive the European Mediterranean Seismological Center registered it as 2.6 magnitude on the Richter scale.
•  Sky News Arabia reported 40 killed, 60 wounded.
•  Hezbollah-affiliated paper accuses Israel for attack.
• UPDATED: Watch video of explosion.

By Reuters and Liad Osmo

 

Rockets struck several military bases in the Hama and Aleppo countryside late Sunday night in what the Syrian army said was new “aggression” by its enemies, as the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al Akhbar blamed Israel for the attack. Continue Reading »

Paraguay announces decision to relocate embassy to Jerusalem

Incoming and outgoing Paraguayan Presidents both advocate relocation of country’s embassy to Jerusalem. • Paraguay becomes 3rd following the US & Guatemala to cement decisions, with the Czech Republic, Romania and Honduras awaiting approval from their respective parliaments.

By Erez Linn, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Outgoing Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes announced over the weekend that he plans to relocate his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, following in the footsteps of the U.S.

On Dec. 6, U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, upending decades of U.S. policy, and pledged to move the American embassy there. Continue Reading »

IDF kills 3 terrorists, captures 1 from 2 infiltration attempts

SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT

Attempted breaches on Sunday of Israel’s border fence with Gaza thwarted as IDF forces kill 3 of the infiltrators, all neutralized. Explosives thrown at soldiers during second attempt.

By Gary Willig

 

The IDF stated that two attempts were made to infiltrate Israel from Gaza Sunday evening.

In the first incident, two terrorists were identified attempting to breach the fence in the southern Gaza Strip. IDF forces opened fire on the suspects, killing one of them. The other suspect was apprehended and taken for questioning by security forces.

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Exclusive peek at Israel’s ‘Eyes on Syria’ – IDF’s MSS, or multi-sensory system

Ynet’s exclusive peek at the IDF’s advanced multi-sensory system (MSS) examines the new system deployed across Israel’s northeastern frontier, and with a flick of their joysticks, lookouts can spot rebels, regimes soldiers or Iranian threats deep within Syrian territory, down to the type of weapon they’re carrying.

By Yoav Zitun

 

The Syrian village of Al-Ahmadiyah sits on the road between New Quneitra—one of the last symbols of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad remaining in the Golan—and the southern part of the Golan Heights, which is controlled by the rebels.

Blurred here, the IDF’s view from the MSS affords amazingly detailed images.

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Israeli Jets Hit 6 Targets in Hamas Naval Base in Gaza, 4 Injured

SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT

From the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit: “The IDF will not allow cynical use of civilians, including children, women and persons with disabilities, as a cover for ongoing terrorist activity against Israeli citizens and IDF forces, and will continue to respond harshly to any such terrorist attempt.”

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Friday night attacked six terrorist targets belonging to the Hamas naval force in Gaza, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

The attack was carried out in response to the terrorist attacks and the attempts by rioters to infiltrate into Israeli territory. Palestinian Arab media reported four injuries. Continue Reading »

3 Gazan’s shot dead, ‘hundreds’ of Palestinians attempt to breach border fence

Although turnout continues to dwindle compared to the first weeks of Gaza’s ‘March of Return’ demonstrations, the IDF reported Friday that “hundreds of violent rioters,” prodded on by Hamas, were stopped by soldiers while attempting to break into Israel.

By i24NEWS

 

At least three Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire during the fifth straight week of Gaza border protests on Friday, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said “hundreds” were attempting to break through the security fence into Israel.

Hamas calls on Gazans to protest on Israel’s border – PLO/Twitter

The death toll of those killed by Israeli live fire since the start of the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations in the Gaza Strip stands at 44, after Palestinian health ministry reported on Friday that three people had died and 349 were injured. Continue Reading »