Middle East

Intensive negotiations between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog are continuing apace, following reports yesterday that a unity government deal was “closer than ever.” Now, the price of including Herzog’s 24-seat Zionist Union party into the Likud-led coalition is becoming clearer. Sources close to the prime minister say Herzog has been offered […]

  Trump calls Israel ‘great bastion of hope,’ says he will visit Jewish state ‘soon’ (JNS.org) Asked for his message to Israelis on Yom Hazikaron, the Jewish state’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview published Wednesday by the Israel Hayom newspaper that

A convoy of Hezbollah terrorists and weapons was hit in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, according to Arab media reports. The convoy was reportedly traveling through the village of Anjar, close to Lebanon’s border with Syria, when it was hit. Anjar is located in the Bekaa Valley region, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon. Israel’s

Two elderly women were stabbed and moderately injured in a suspected terror attack at the Armon Hanatziv promenade in southern Jerusalem, police said Tuesday morning. Both women were rushed to a local hospital in moderate condition, the Magen David Adom rescue service said. An MDA spokesperson said the two were in their 80s,…