Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed developments in the Middle East and Iran in a phone call on Friday, the Kremlin said, as diplomatic maneuvering intensified over possible...
As the information blackout in Iran persists, a grim picture is emerging from the few reports slipping through the regime’s digital blackout. Heavy weaponry, typically reserved for war zones, has been turned against the...
Over the past three weeks, a wave of protests has swept across all 31 provinces of the Islamic Republic and threatened to extinguish the flame of Khomeini’s revolution. At first, the strike of the merchants at Tehran’s Grand...
Three days before the Hamas-led massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I stood on Mount Dov (Har Dov), overlooking the borders with Lebanon and Syria. At the base of the mountain sat a Hezbollah tent,...
The longest-held living Israeli hostages freed from Gaza, brothers David and Ariel Cunio, have begun speaking publicly for the first time since their release, describing their prolonged captivity marked by starvation, abuse and...
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, said on Thursday the United States had communicated with Iranian officials in recent days and reported that plans for mass hangings of protesters in Iran...
SDEROT, Israel—“Are you with Israel?” the terrified 6-year-old girl asked the police officer from...
The Pentagon has ordered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its carrier strike group to move to the Middle East amid mounting unrest in Iran, according to multiple media reports. The San Diego-based...
Over the next few months, Israelis will continue to encounter foreign workers, mostly from Thailand and India, as caregivers and in workplaces such as supermarkets and car repair shops, as well as in agriculture and...
The Iranian regime is killing its own people—and then lying about it with familiar, practiced cruelty. As protests shake the Islamic Republic, the ayatollahs are deploying the same propaganda machinery perfected by Hamas after...
Israeli security forces arrested two Israeli citizens from the central city of Lod and a Palestinian from the Nablus (Shechem) area on suspicion of smuggling ammunition to terrorists in Judea and Samaria, the Israel Security...
The Israeli government’s decision to close Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) has triggered a renewed debate over the future of a prominent radio station, and a broader dispute over institutional legitimacy, civil–military relations, and...
The Israel Defense Forces during an overnight operation in Judea on Wednesday demolished the home of the terrorist who carried out a deadly attack at the region’s Gush Etzion Junction on Nov. 18. Hebron terrorist Amran al-Atrash...
Former Israeli hostage Shoshan Haran is releasing a memoir, titled Captive on a Mission, about her experiences in Gaza. The book, to be released in Hebrew on Jan. 18 by publisher Yediot Achronot, describes for the first time...
The government of Argentina on Thursday declared the Muslim Brotherhood branches in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan terrorist organizations. This measure was the result of an analysis performed by Argentine authorities, which found...
Nicolás Maduro, the former president of Venezuela, was led to believe that Russian air-defense systems would keep American helicopters from landing near his fortified compound in Caracas. He was misinformed. The Venezuelan...
Exiled crown prince and prominent opposition leader Reza Pahlavi has outlined his vision for a post-Islamist Iran, as nationwide anti-government protests stretch into their third week. Speaking in English with Farsi subtitles in...
Imagine your 12-year-old daughter announcing she’s actually a boy, or your son insisting he’s trapped in the wrong body. Online influencers promise you that medical transition will solve everything. School counselors urge you to...
“Israel Undiplomatic” brings sharp insight and spirited debate to the stories shaping Israel and the Middle East. Hosted by JNS senior contributing editor Ruthie Blum and former ambassador Mark Regev, both former advisers to the...
A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck southern Israel on Thursday morning, shaking the Dead Sea and Negev regions, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. The quake’s epicenter was near the city of Dimona,...
After an internal examination prompted by the recent U.S. withdrawal from dozens of international organizations, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar ordered the immediate severing of all contact with several United Nations...
Looking back over the last several decades, citizens of Israel will find much reason for grave concern over the aptitude of the country’s leadership. Indeed, almost all of those who held- and some who still hold—senior positions...
Israel’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday cancelled a hearing scheduled for Jan. 15 to weigh petitions calling for the ouster of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. It based its decision on its dissatisfaction...
Police in Germany have arrested a man in connection with suspected arson on Tuesday outside a synagogue in Giessen near Frankfurt. Security camera footage of the incident outside the Beith-Jaakov synagogue shows a man with a...
