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WATCH: Israel’s remarkable precision missile shot Islamic Jihad leader through window

According to reports, the IDF missile that killed Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu Al Ata and his wife entered through the window of the small room where he was hiding. Even the neighbors weren't hurt. That accuracy is thanks to Israel's advanced missile technology.

November 12, 2019

Israeli air force brings the thunder: Numerous terror targets reduced to rubble

The IDF targeted Islamic Jihad sites in the Gaza Strip as the terror group launched rockets at Israel.

November 12, 2019

WATCH: Iron Dome interceptors streak toward terrorist rockets over Israeli city

Iron Dome interceptors fly over the Israeli city of Sderot near the Gaza Strip. Israel has intercepted 20 of 50 rockets fired from Gaza as of 9:00 a.m. Tuesday.

November 12, 2019

Palestinian Islamic Jihad: This means war

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority also condemned the assassination of their rivals’ top terror leader.

November 12, 2019

Islamic Jihad leader in Damascus also eliminated

The killing of the political bureau chief was also attributed to the IDF.

November 12, 2019

WATCH: Dramatic footage as Gaza rocket detonates beside Israeli intersection

Video footage from Israel's National Roads Authority shows a rocket exploding just as cars pass an intersection near the city of Ashdod on Nov. 12.

November 12, 2019

Terrorists release savage rocket attack in reprisal for IDF killing of senior commander

Rockets rain down on Israel. Sirens sound as Gaza terrorists respond with violence at the death of the terror chieftain.

November 12, 2019

Israel assassinates Islamic Jihad commander; 150 rockets fired at Israel

IDF eliminates notorious Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu Al Ata.

November 12, 2019

Netanyahu endures insults as Rabin memorials turn into bashfests

A grandson of the assassinated prime minister told Benjamin Netanyahu to “go home.”

November 11, 2019

Israelis win gold, silver medals at European Thai boxing championship

Israel took gold and silver at the Thai boxing competition.

November 11, 2019

Clashes in Samaria as Israeli forces drag Jewish youth from home

Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir accused the authorities of employing torture tactics in extricating Zarog, posting a video on Twitter to back up his accusation.

November 11, 2019

Survey: Majority of Blue and White voters ready to form government with Arab help

Seventy-six percent of Arab citizens are in favor of the Arab Joint List joining the government.

November 11, 2019

Likud MK Galant, who wanted defense ministry, reportedly ‘seething’ over Bennett’s appointment

Former candidate for chief of staff says the appointment “does not serve Israel’s security.”

November 11, 2019

Poll: Netanyahu wins if direct elections are held

But if an election for the entire Knesset were to take place, Blue and White would win one more seat in the Israeli parliament than Netanyahu's Likud party.

November 11, 2019

Third Israeli elections growing more likely as time running out for Gantz

Gantz has only nine days to put together a coalition before he must return the mandate.

November 11, 2019

Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman

Liberman issues ultimatum to Netanyahu, Gantz: ‘Whoever doesn’t compromise, we’ll join the other side’

Liberman warned the two leaders that he would take action against the one who stood in the way of a unity government.

November 10, 2019

Israeli team wins gold for producing bee-free honey

Israeli researchers genetically engineered bacteria to produce honey.

November 10, 2019

WATCH: Israeli cabinet minister warns that Iran’s nuclear program advances while Israel fiddles

Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz warned that 'Iran is advancing, step by step, its nuclear capabilities,' while Israel waits to establish a government, Arutz7 reports.

November 10, 2019

Cyberdome: Israel, US test limits in joint cyber defense exercise

Israel and the U.S. concluded a joint exercise in cyber defense last week.

November 10, 2019

Palestinian Authority sends unaccounted billions to terror groups

The PA has sent 7 billion shekels to the PLO, which has transferred some of those funds to terror groups.

November 10, 2019

France reopens contested Jewish tomb in eastern Jerusalem

In 1878, a French Jewish woman purchased the property through the French consul in Jerusalem, and eight years later one of her heirs donated it to the French government.

November 10, 2019

El Al bids farewell to Boeing 747 by tracing the plane’s outline in the sky

El Al has already replaced some of its planes with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

November 10, 2019

Netanyahu hands Bennett defense ministry

Bennett will be appointed defense minister.

November 8, 2019

Gantz’s party ready to annex Jordan Valley, agrees with Likud, report says

'In Blue and White, they are prepared to begin a process of imposing Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area,' Kan public radio reported on Thursday.

November 7, 2019

Israeli professor suffers from backlash over controversial Rabin assassination comments

Reverberations continue for professor after his controversial remarks at a pro-Netanyahu rally.

November 7, 2019

Disenchantment with Amazon just weeks after Israel launch

'You can’t blame shoppers,' Amazon adviser Elad Goldenberg told Haaretz. 'They expected to see good deals and low prices.'

November 7, 2019

NATO and Israeli naval officials greet one another aboard an Israeli Navy ship.

WATCH: NATO drills with Israeli Navy, sees Jewish state as key partner for medical assistance

NATO has recognized the Israeli Navy as a key medical-assistance partner in the Mediterranean following a drill held last week practicing emergency evacuations of personnel.

November 7, 2019

‘Last night they tried to murder me’: Beit El mother describes harrowing drive as Arabs stone car

A mother and her children came under an onslaught of stones on Wednesday night. The mother credits her son with saving them.

November 7, 2019

Holocaust survivors attend a rally in Tel Aviv to raise awareness of their difficult financial plight.

Expert: Israel’s Bank Leumi hoarding $118 million of Holocaust victims’ money

The bank piled numerous difficulties on survivors and heirs looking to get their money back after World War Two, says a parliamentary auditor.

November 7, 2019

Nailing Netanyahu: Storm in Knesset as justice minister reveals investigators’ dirty tricks

Ohana revealed controversial details of the investigation tactics used to pressure a key witness against the prime minister.

November 7, 2019

Set for demolition: IDF preps home of terrorist who killed Jewish teen Rina Shnerb

The IDF prepped the home of Qasem Shabali for demolition.

November 7, 2019

PM Netanyahu, Science & Technology Minister Akunis and robotocs team

Netanyahu meets Israeli robotics team that won silver in Dubai olympiad

The prime minister and science minister congratulated the silver medalists in the robotics competition.

November 7, 2019

WATCH: Police prevent Jewish woman from drinking water on Temple Mount, after allowing Arabs

A Jewish woman is denied water one moment after an Arab woman drinks from a water fountain on the Temple Mount.

November 6, 2019

In breakthrough, Cave of the Patriarchs to be made accessible to disabled

The Cave of the Patriarchs is finally to be accessible to all.

November 6, 2019

Poll: Netanyahu edges out Gantz in head-to-head election

A new poll found that 46% would vote for Netanyahu and 43% for Gantz if an election solely for prime minister were held.

November 6, 2019

Advanced Israeli missile captured by Russians in Syria, reports say

A David's Sling interceptor has fallen into Russian hands, reports say.

November 6, 2019

WATCH: EU court mulls labeling Israeli products from Judea and Samaria ‘Israeli colonies’

The E.U. is preparing to bar goods from Judea and Samaria from being labeled 'Made in Israel.' Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project tells ILTV that the move is discriminatory and anti-Semitic.

November 6, 2019

Israel celebrates 28,000 new immigrants in past year

'On Aliyah Day we honor the immigrants to Israel through the generations – the people who left everything and immigrated to Israel,' the Minister of Immigration and Absorption said.

November 6, 2019

Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch

Israeli supreme court upholds government decision to expel BDS activist

If the government decides to follow through and deport Shakir, it would be the first expulsion of its kind under the 2017 law.

November 5, 2019

Likud floats third election proposal: Send only Netanyahu and Gantz into the ring

Recent public opinion polls have shown that Netanyahu is preferred as prime minister over Gantz.

November 5, 2019

Netanyahu to police: Check death threats against myself and my family

Facebook poster called for police to 'prepare to direct traffic for the funerals of Benjamin, Sarah and Yair Netanyahu.'

November 5, 2019

Odds of forming unity government are exactly ‘zero,’ senior political official says

A senior political insider says that the gaps are only growing wider between the two largest parties.

November 5, 2019

Israeli police seize Arab weapons cache hidden next to kindergarten

Israeli police found weapons next to a kindergarten in an Arab village.

November 5, 2019

IDF uncovers weapons lathe near Ramallah

IDF uncovered a lathe used to build makeshift weapons.

November 5, 2019

WATCH: After 24 years, what lesson has Israel learned from Rabin’s assassination?

While former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was killed 24 years ago, many of the rifts in Israeli society that led to his death remain.

November 4, 2019

IDF officer reveals: If we followed ‘open-fire’ rules, we’d kill 10-20 terrorists a day

The IDF officer said if the Army operated according to its own rules of engagement, there'd be 10-20 dead Hamas terrorists a day.

November 4, 2019

Hamas leader pokes fun at Israel’s political instability

'They cannot make decisive and fateful decisions at this time,' Sinwar said.

November 4, 2019

Ultra-Orthodox MK furious at Liberman’s anti-religious campaign, no chance of compromise

MK Moshe Gafni hits back at suggestion made by New Right party heads that ultra-Orthodox back off their demands to get Israel Beytenu into a right-wing coalition.

November 4, 2019

In fading ritual, WWII rescuer reunites with Jews she saved

Sunday’s emotional encounter was the first time Dina had met the offspring of the Mordechai family she helped save during the Holocaust.

November 4, 2019

Netanyahu: ‘We have no better friends in the world than our Christian friends’

'What we have today is the alliance of those who believe in our great Judeo-Christian tradition,' Netanyahu said.

November 4, 2019

Minister of Interior Affairs, Gideon Sa'ar,

Netanyahu’s potential successor tweets his remedy for Gaza attacks

Gideon Sa'ar said the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza must be dismantled.

November 4, 2019

Feeling US pressure, Israel agrees to keep tabs on Chinese investment

Israel agrees to set up an oversight panel to keep tabs on foreign investment in the country's infrastructure.

November 4, 2019

IDF arrests 15 terrorists in overnight operations

On Sunday night, IDF soldiers arrested terror suspects, seized weapons and terror funds.

November 4, 2019

WATCH: Tech experts say ‘chutzpah’ is key to startup nation’s success

Industry insiders say that Israeli audacity is the nation's secret ingredient for out-of-the-box innovation.

November 3, 2019

Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz

Gantz hits Netanyahu as missiles rain from Gaza: ‘In government I will form, we’ll know how to fight’

Gantz promised to be tough with Gaza terrorists in a veiled criticism of Netanyahu's administration.

November 3, 2019

F-35 stealth fighter joins international air exercise in Israel for first time

The 12-day drill will strengthen military cooperation between Israel, Greece, Italy and the United States.

November 3, 2019

Israeli Arab leaders go on hunger strike to protest inaction as violence consumes communities

Joint list leader MK Ayman Odeh charged that the 'police are not doing anything.'

November 3, 2019

Balfour Declaration turns 102: The milestone and the man who made it happen

Key milestone in Zionist history paved way for the creation of the Jewish State.

November 3, 2019

WATCH: Being blind didn’t stop IDF officer

Being blind did not hold Ori back. She was intent on joining the Israel Air Force. She became an officer. In May, she was awarded a medal of excellence.

November 3, 2019

Opinion: What J Street really is

J Street thinks it knows what’s best for Israel, spending its time and money besmirching the Jewish State.

November 3, 2019

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