By Israel Kasnett, JNS— The Israel Air Force carried out airstrikes on Tuesday night against a series of targets involving Iranian weapons’ transfers to Hezbollah, as well as several senior members of the terror organization. Syrian air defenses reportedly fired 30 anti-aircraft missiles in response, allegedly placing a number of civilian airliners in danger. Russia…
DetailsBy Yochanan Visser, Israel Today-— A week after US President Donald Trump dropped a bombshell by announcing he would pull out all American troops from Syria it is slowly becoming clear that he endangered Israel by making this decision. At the beginning of this week, media reported the Russian army had begun to build a base…
DetailsBy Breaking Christian News— Just in time for Christmas, the Israel Bureau of Statistics has published figures on Christians living in Israel. According to the report, around 175,000 Christians live in the Holy Land, which makes them 2 percent of the total population. Of those, 77.7 percent are Arab Christians. (Photo Credit: Israel Today) In…
DetailsBy Ted Belman, IsraPundit—- Very few people, if any, believe that Pres. Trump will succeed with his Deal of the Century, but I do. Nor do they know what that deal is or when it will be tabled. But they do know that the US under his leadership is acting unilaterally to neuter the UN,…
DetailsBy Gill Hoffman, Lahav Harkov—JPOST Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the parties in his coalition decided Monday to disperse the Knesset this week and initiate an early general election on April 9, 2019. Netanyahu boasted to his Likud faction that his coalition lasted four years and had key diplomatic, security and economic accomplishments. He said…
Details“The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.” -J.I. Packer
Think on this: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on…
DetailsBy Shuki Friedman, Times of Israel—- Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in anti-Semitism in Europe. In the United States, too, anti-Semitism is on the rise. In some cases, it comes in the familiar age-old guise of hatred of Jews, plain and simple; but in many others, it is cloaked in the form of…
DetailsBy Ryan Jones, Israel Today— Israel’s defense establishment reacted with surprise and a degree of concern on Thursday to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that ISIS had been defeated, and that American forces would therefore be leaving Syria. In fact, the withdrawal of the US military from Syria began even as Trump was delivering his…
DetailsBy Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— There is one good thing about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria: The move makes it clear to all those promoting the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular do not in fact run the White House. Yes, this is…
DetailsBy Herb Keinon, JPOST— Despite all the learned arguments, even with the aerial photographs, and regardless of the unequivocal diplomatic support from the US, Israel knows that it will not get the UN Security Council to take firm and determined action against Hezbollah for its tunnel project. This was clear when listening to the Security…
DetailsBy Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— The US administration’s planned complete withdrawal from Syria is bad news for Israel both militarily and diplomatically, experts said Wednesday, since it will be leaving a vacuum in the war-torn country that will very likely be filled by Iran. While the US military had only some 2,000 troops in…
DetailsBy Chris Mitchell, Breaking Christian News— From Iran to Saudi Arabia and beyond, US President Donald Trump has put his stamp on the region. (Photo: PM Netanyahu, President Donald Trump/via CBN News) Perhaps the most dramatic decision, acting where other presidents had not, was moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. “What a glorious day. Remember…
DetailsBY Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— For the first time since over five decades, the Senate is poised to consider a resolution calling on the U.S. government to recognize Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights. The draft resolution was introduced by pro-Israel Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton on Tuesday. Israel captured parts of the…
DetailsBy Jackson Richman, JNS— Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon warned the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday about the threat Hezbollah poses to the Jewish state, calling the terrorist group a “lifeblood” from Iran. “Hezbollah has built a terror base inside a civilian population, with its end on the Israeli side of the…
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