Category: Israel

Israel Strikes 4 Hamas Military Compounds After Rockets Fired From Gaza

The Israeli military announced in the early hours of Monday morning that it carried out strikes against four military compounds occupied by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire from the Islamist terrorist group. “Terrorists in Gaza fired rockets at Israel for the 3rd night in a row, endangering lives in Gaza…


Israel Catches Two More Escaped Palestinian Militants, Police Say

NAZARETH—Israeli forces on Saturday captured two more of the six Palestinian terrorists who made a dramatic escape from a maximum-security Israeli jail this week, a police spokesperson said. The two men were found hiding in a truck parking lot in an Arab village in northern Israel, near the city of Nazareth, where two other escapees…


Twins Who Were Conjoined at the Head Are Successfully Separated After a 12-Hour Surgery

One-year-old twin girls who were born conjoined at the back of the head can now make eye contact with each other for the first time after undergoing a rare separation surgery in Israel. The more than 12-hour operation that took place at Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba on Sept. 2 took months of preparation and…


1-Year-Old Conjoined Twins Separated in Israel

Israeli doctors say they have performed a complex surgery to separate one-year-old conjoined twins, the first such effort ever in Israel. The twin girls were separated in a 12-hour procedure by Israeli and international medical experts at the Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel’s Beersheba, the center said in a statement sent to The Associated…


Prison Break: 6 Palestinian Terrorists Escape High-Security Facility in Israel

Israeli forces launched a massive manhunt on Monday following the prison break of six “highly dangerous” Palestinian terrorists serving terror charges at a maximum security facility. The fugitives, five Islamic Jihad members and former senior commander Zakaria Zubeid of the Israeli-designated terrorist group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, escaped Gilboa prison, located in the country’s north, through a tunnel…


COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Expires 6 Months After 2nd Dose as Booster Shots Mandated: Israeli Officials

Israeli government officials said that COVID-19 vaccine passports will expire six months after the second Pfizer dose, meaning that people will need to receive booster shots to keep their passes valid. This week, the Ministry of Health announced the controversial move and declared that a person is considered fully vaccinated if they were “vaccinated with two…


Media Bias Against Israel Is Entrenched and Runs Deep

Commentary Here is a joke I told some high school students years ago—teenagers can be a tough crowd—to show how easily media bias can manufacture or manipulate public sympathy. In Paris, a man sees a pit bull attacking a little girl. He kills the dog, saving the child’s life. Reporters swarm him. One says, “Tell…


Israel Offers COVID-19 Booster to All Vaccinated People

JERUSALEM—Israel on Sunday began offering a COVID-19 booster to children as young as 12, and its prime minister said a campaign that began a month ago among seniors has slowed a rise in severe illness caused by the Delta variant. Announcing the decision, top Israeli health officials said the effectiveness of the second dose of…


Israel Bombs Hamas Weapons Manufacturing Complex in Gaza Over Fire Balloons: Military

JERUSALEM/GAZA—Israeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza early on Sunday in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave, the military said, as a recent rise in cross-border violence tests a fragile truce that ended fierce fighting in May. Sanctioned by Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group that rules Gaza, Palestinian groups said on Saturday…


US Has ‘Other Options’ If Diplomacy With Iran Fails, Biden Tells Israeli PM in Bilateral Meeting

President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Friday that the United States has “other options” if using diplomacy fails with Iran, in efforts to ensure it never develops a nuclear weapon. The bilateral meeting between the two leaders was delayed by one day after a deadly explosion at…