Middle East

Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted on Tuesday that he is seeking to forge political partnerships to kickstart the movement he heads. In an interview with Army Radio, Ya’alon said that he is currently holding talks with “anyone willing to talk about the future of the State of Israel, I am talking, among others, to

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.