Feb 25, 2021
US to rejoin UNHRC, shield Israel
The United States is seeking to re-join the controversial United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), where the administration of US President Joe Biden says it will press to eliminate a…
Feb 25, 2021
UN: urgent help needed to avert Yemen crisis
The United Nations describes Yemen as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 80% of the people in need. Sir Mark Andrew Lowcock, a British economist who serves as the Under-Secretary-General…
Feb 24, 2021
Netanyahu vows Iran won’t end ‘Jewish revival’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim to issue a warning to Iran. Purim commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia as…
Feb 24, 2021
Gantz issues warning to Hezbollah
Israel’s Alternate Premier and Defense Minister Benny Gantz conducted a situational assessment and discussion with senior military staff during an inspection of the IDF 91st Division in the north. The…
Feb 24, 2021
Israel works on gas pipeline to Gaza
Frequent power shortages experienced in the Gaza Strip may soon be rendered to the past, if a project on a gas line to the Palestinian enclave in which Israel is…
Feb 23, 2021
US revives Two-State Solution
The United States is reaffirming its commitment to a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That was the message conveyed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a telephone…
Feb 23, 2021
Iran threatens to enrich uranium to 60%
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that the Islamic Republic will enrich uranium up to 60% purity if needed and never submit to Western pressure over nuclear development. “Iran’s…
Feb 23, 2021
Israel’s ‘fast pass’ to normalcy
“Vaccinated? Get the Green Pass and get back to life.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that message, as the country jump-started the economy with the staged reopening of some…
Feb 22, 2021
Conscripts or Career? IDF Identity Crisis
The Real Qualitative Military Edge By Amir Oren The Israel Defense Forces’ Manpower Chief, or J-1, is not the most inportant or glamorous officers in the service. It is a…
Feb 22, 2021
US informed Israel before Iran policy switch
Israel received prior notification that the United States is ready to discuss resumption of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with Iran. This, according to Reuters,…