The head of Israel’s General Security Service briefed the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday about the scale of the current terrorist threat. Nadav Argaman, head of the Shin Bet, told Government ministers that Israel has prevented 200 terrorist attacks from more than 70 local terrorist cells since the beginning of 2017. Argaman...

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The United States Senate has attached a bill that would cut some aid to the Palestinian Authority because of its payments to families of terrorists to its foreign operations bill on Thursday, assuring the measure will be voted on before the end of the year. The Taylor Force Act, named...

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin began his visit to Germany on Wednesday by attending a memorial ceremony for the Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Rivlin was joined at the memorial ceremony by his German counterpart President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Horst Seehofer, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President...

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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar rejected a request on Tuesday from the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross to meet with Israelis believed to be held captive by the Gaza-based terrorist group. Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC had requested meetings with Avraham Abera Mengistu, Hisham al-Sayed, and Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima,...

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is launching its largest combat exercise in more than 20 years on Tuesday to test plans for a future conflict with Hezbollah on its northern border. The exercise is expected to last ten days and will include its multi-layered missile defense system and tens of thousands...

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The Palestinian Authority forced a meeting with the families of terrorists on UN Secretary General António Guterres, and then lied about the chain of events. According to a spokesperson for the UN chief, Guterres was not scheduled to meet with relatives of Palestinian terrorists and the quotes released by the...

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The new leader of the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that the group has successfully reset ties with Iran after a five-year rift, using the newfound assistance for “rebuilding and accumulating” its military infrastructure to “liberate Palestine” from Israel. “Thousands of people work every day to make...

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A former Al Jazeera English bureau chief in Cairo has spoken out about the Qatari-owned network’s unethical methods, calling it a “weapon against its neighbors” and accusing it of endangering the “lives of journalists because of dealings with Hamas, [and] the Muslim Brotherhood.” Mohamed Fahmy, who previously reported for the...

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Finding itself increasingly at odds with the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, the terror group that controls Gaza, is aligning with Iran, according to an analysis published last week. The rift came to the fore earlier this week as The Jerusalem Post reported that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a visiting Israeli politician...

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Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) are fighting side by side against ISIS in northeastern Lebanon, further demonstrating the control the Iranian-backed terror group exerts over its host country. Though some public statements denied that the two forces were coordinating their efforts, Reuters reported that one commander representing the...

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