An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday night targeted the home of senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, security officials told the AFP news agency. There was no one in the house, in

A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday approved a 50 percent funding boost for the Iron Dome anti-missile system, AFP reported. The measure, if it becomes law, would provide $621.6 million

Turkey has stepped up diplomatic efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, AFP reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spoke separately by telephone with

The majority of the Israeli public is against a ceasefire with Hamas at this time, a poll conducted for Channel 2 News on Tuesday found. 53% of respondents said they

New IDF air and tank strikes in Gaza early Wednesday killed several people, medics said, bringing the death toll from Israel’s operation in the Palestinian Arab territory to 204. One

Hamas fired a large salvo of rockets Wednesday morning at the Greater Tel Aviv area. Four rockets were intercepted. Sirens and explosions sounded throughout Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Petah Tikva,

The IDF Spokesman said Wednesday morning that the military attacked 39 terror targets in Hamas-run Gaza overnight. Over 1,750 terror targets have been hit since Operation Protective Edge began, on

Some 400 French Jews will be making aliyah to Israel Wednesday, undeterred by the ongoing rocket fire and conflict with terrorist groups in Gaza. The group is set to arrive aboard

As Israel’s security forces remain embroiled in the ongoing conflict with Hamas along the country’s southern border, students at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC) are engaged on another equally

MK Danny Danon (Likud) received the letter firing him from his position as Deputy Defense Minister Wednesday morning. The letter reached the media Tuesday night, however, he says. It does

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman is continuing to call for a ground invasion of Gaza, implicitly criticizing the government’s official position during a visit to the embattled southern city of Ashkelon

The IDF has issued demolition orders for the homes of the terrorists who kidnapped and murdered three Jewish teens – Gilad Sha’ar, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Frenkel hy”d. Marwan Kawasmeh

An unconfirmed number of Israelis – including several Arutz Sheva staff members – received a “warning” via text message from Hamas’s “military wing” on Wednesday afternoon, threatening continued violence against civilians.  In

Dramatic video footage has emerged showing French Jews clashing with Muslim extremists outside the Don Yitzchak Abarbanel Synagogue in eastern Paris on Sunday, after anti-Israel protesters violently attacked the synagogue

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett rejected criticism from leftist NGOs over Israel’s military operation against terrorist rocket fire from Gaza, and said the moment Hamas decided to invest in improving the

Israeli Air Force jets launched targeted attacks on Tuesday afternoon against roughly 30 terrorist hotspots throughout the Gaza Strip. Among the targets hit were 20 hidden rocket launching pads, including

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the security situation in Israel on Tuesday night, threatening a full ground invasion in the event that escalation from Gaza continues. “If Islamic Jihad and

Terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched a fresh barrage of rockets on central and southern Israel Tuesday afternoon, fatally wounding an Israeli civilian in his thirties near the Erez Crossing

In a dramatic development Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has fired his Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon. Danon, who is a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, has been a consistent

Sirens were heard in the resort city of Eilat on Monday night, shortly after 1:30 a.m. Two rockets were fired towards the city, one of them hitting a parked car

In the video below, IDF Spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner explains the difficulties Israel faces in its struggle against the Hamas terror organization. While the IDF obligates itself to abide

Nine Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduates have been selected to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), an advanced biomedical research program at YU’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Directed

France stepped up security on Monday, a day after protesters demonstrating against Israel’s operation in Gaza tried to storm two Paris synagogues. According to the AFP news agency, President Francois

Hamas rejected Egypt’s proposed ceasefire in Gaza on Monday night, as Arab foreign ministers in Cairo called on “all parties” to accept the proposal. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the

Hamas has been hiding its headquarters and arsenals in a new type of building, a special report from the Center for Intelligence and Counterterrorism revealed Tuesday. Mosques and minarets in

The Security Cabinet has agreed to Egypt’s proposal for a cease-fire with Hamas, beginning at 9:00 am IST – despite the fact that Hamas categorically rejected the offer on Monday night.   “The

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Hamas to accept Egypt’s ceasefire proposal to halt fighting with Israel in Gaza. In a brief statement released by the State Department on Tuesday,

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) bombed several terror targets in the city of Quneitra, Syria overnight Tuesday, following a volley of rockets on the Golan Heights, Syrian media reported.  Between

According to the IDF, at least 47 rockets have been fired on Israel since 9:00 am Tuesday, when an Egyptian-brokered truce was meant to come into effect. A direct hit