4.1 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Northern Israel

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> Is Israel ready for the next big earthquake? > Israelis in Japan tell their stories of the Osaka earthquake The Sea of Galilee is seen near Tiberias. (photo credit: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun) Residents of northern Israel were woken up with a bump … Read More

Israel said to brace nuclear reactors for Iranian, Hezbollah missile attacks

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Dimona reactor The Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) has been working to secure the Dimona and Nahal Sorek nuclear reactors against possible missile strikes from Iran and Hezbollah, according to a report by the Haaretz daily on Thursday. Missile strikes are the greatest … Read More

Hamas Seeks a Major Conflict With Israel, Defense Officials Warn

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Israel believes that Hamas sees another round of conflict as a possible fix for the crisis in Gaza, but the group is also afraid of the implications of a full-scale war. Palestinians trying to damage the border fence with Israel … Read More

Opinion Trump Has No Coherent Strategy on Iran. Astonishingly, nor Does Israel

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The U.S. president thinks he’s denuclearized North Korea without dismantling a single bomb. Israel simply can’t risk a similar White House ‘success’ with Iran, but war can’t be its only option either. Israeli Air Force F-15 planes fly during an … Read More

U.S. close to releasing Mideast peace proposal that Palestinian leadership may immediately reject

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, is visiting Arab capitals and Israel to describe elements of the administration’s vision and seek help in drawing Palestinian leadership to the table. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) The Trump administration is close … Read More

Iraqi militias threaten US and Israel

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Fighters from the Iranian-backed Shia militia Kata’ib Hizbolla, part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), at one of the front lines in Iraq. (Photo: Archive) WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – Two Iraqi Shiite groups have threatened the US and Israel … Read More

Israel warns Hamas as tensions escalate over Gaza rockets and incendiary kites

Jerusalem (CNN)In one of the biggest exchanges of fire between the two sides in years, militants in Gaza launched some 45 rockets toward Israel early Wednesday morning, prompting retaliatory airstrikes from Israeli fighter jets, according to the Israel Defense Forces … Read More

Trump Administration Withdraws U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council

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Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, speaking to the General Assembly last week in New York.Credit Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — The United States withdrew on Tuesday from the world’s most important human rights … Read More

Hundreds of Fires Broke Out in Israel Due to Burning Kites From Gaza

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Israel’s firefighting commissioner says that dealing with these fires has cost about 2 million additional shekels so far. Fire extinguishing forces in the area of Kibbutz Be’eri this week. Eliyahu Hershkowitz Israel will have to retaliate for Gaza’s burning kites soon, … Read More

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