Middle East

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday said the next war in Israel will see the Israel Defense Forces facing both a unified Syrian and Lebanese foe and another front in the Gaza Strip. He also declared Tuesday that the Lebanese army has been fully integrated with Hezbollah and now operates under the terror group’s command. […]

Iran is working to block access to the geographical navigation application Waze due to its Israeli background, the Azerbaijan-based Trend News Agency reported on Monday. Access to the app was temporary blocked in March, but the ban was removed later, according to the report. Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, secretary of the Iranian cyberspace watchdog, said on Monday

Ofir Dayan at Columbia University, New York, September 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel) NEW YORK — In September 2007, Iran’s then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at Columbia University in New York. Exactly a decade later, Ofir Dayan, a freshman at the school, asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he’d be willing to do to

An Israeli tank has shelled a post of the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza after Palestinians attempted to fire a rocket into Israel, its army said. The rocket, initially believed to have hit southern Israel late Sunday, fell inside the Gaza Strip but had been intended for the Jewish state, it said in a statement.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has filed a complaint with the Knesset Ethics Committee against an Arab Knesset member for visiting Jerusalem’s Temple Mount complex despite a prohibition on lawmakers visiting the holy site. Joint (Arab) List MK Ahmad Tibi’s July visit to the Temple Mount came during a period of mounting tensions surrounding the

Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan visited Hevron’s Jewish community Monday, receiving a survey of the security deployment in the area and speaking at the mass celebration of the Sukkot holiday before thousands. At the beginning of the visit, Deputy Minister Ben-Dahan heard a briefing by Hevron Brigade Commander Col. Itzik Cohen and then inaugurated