The IDF hit more than 1,500 targets in Gaza during Operation Pillar of Defense, according to a statement released Wednesday night. The statement was a summary of the counterterrorist operation,

Despite a ceasefire that went into effect at 9:00 p.m. (Israel time) on Wednesday evening, the Home Front Command is not taking any chances and schools in southern Israel will

This is the partial text of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, as brokered by Egypt and the U.S. and reported by AFP. “Israel shall stop all hostilities in

Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Israeli border on Wednesday evening, a Lebanese security official told AFP. “Two rockets were fired, one fell in what was clearly

An IDF reservist officer suffered critical wounds early Wednesday afternoon when a Hamas Katyusha rocket exploded in the Eshkol area. The injury was only announced in the evening, after the

Egypt announced on Wednesday that a ceasefire had been reached to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, starting later in the day. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr

As the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah approaches, Israel marks the eighth day of Operation Pillar of Defense by counting the missiles fired. Hanukkah is a holiday especially precious to children,

Iran has sent financial and military aid to Hamas in Gaza in an attempt to boost the efforts of the terrorist group as it continuously and unremittingly launches attacks against

As Iran urges Arab nations to send military aid to Gaza to increase its attacks on Israel, Western leaders plainly condemn the terrorism. For the first time, international leaders abandoned

Arabs living in Lebanese refugee camps celebrated Wednesday after a bomb ripped through a bus in Tel Aviv, injuring over twenty people. In Nahr al-Bared camp in north Lebanon muezzins

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said the Israeli police had been expecting additional terrorist attacks, similar to the one that shook Tel Aviv Wednesday afternoon. Aharonovitch had previously clarified in

According to the latest reports from Cairo and Israel, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday evening and asked him to agree to abide by

Egypt and Israel are engaged in a war of words over a possible ceasefire as Hamas continues to attack Israeli civilians and Israel retaliates. Hamas also is reportedly divided over

IDF soldier Yosef Fartuk, killed in a mortar shell attack Tuesday, wrote on Facebook before his death,” Woe to the first terrorist who falls in my hands.” “Either we enter

The sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed a Chabad rabbi and his wife was executed Wednesday, nearly four years after 166 people were killed in a

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday evening with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. The two made statements to the press, and Netanyahu stressed that while

The United States criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, after he once again chose to attack Israel over its counter-terrorist operation in Gaza. In his latest hateful

Rabbis from the Rabbinical Council of America arrived in Israel on Tuesday for a three-day solidarity mission with residents of the south, who are facing constant rocket and missile attacks

8:09  IDF spokesperson  Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai says a ground operation in Gaza still is an option despite Hamas’ stated assumptions of a truce. 8:03  IDF soldier Yosef Fartuk, killed

An IDF soldier who was critically wounded in a rocket attack Tuesday evening in the Eshkol region has died. He has been identified as 18-year-old Yosef Fartuk of Emanuel. Fartuk

An Israeli woman believed to be in her late 50s was wounded Tuesday evening in what appears to have been a terrorist attack. The incident took place near the city

Despite its ongoing attacks on Israel, Hamas found time Tuesday to execute six Gaza residents without trial. The terrorist group claimed the six were “caught red-handed” assisting Israel. The six

The IDF on Tuesday night eliminated a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist who was responsible for firing missiles at Eilat several months ago. Yunus Shaluf, who fired the rockets at Eilat

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel on Tuesday night for meetings with officials, in an attempt to achieve a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Gaza.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Tuesday. Before they met, they spoke in the presence of reporters. “I’m very pleased to see you again, Guido,”

Anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside of the Israeli embassy in Denmark, throwing fireworks and spraying the embassy walls with graffiti. Some 20 protesters assembled outside the embassy in Hellerup Sunday evening

A rocket exploded in an open area near an Arab village in Gush Etzion around 2:15 p.m. as sirens wailed in Jerusalem during another barrage of rockets and missiles unleashed

Hizbullah is supplying long-range missiles to Hamas even as Israel’s Iron Dome system blows them up after launching, a Lebanese newspaper claims with pride. The claim is unsubstatiated by other

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a video conference on Monday with volunteers who are working to assist in the national public diplomacy efforts of the State of Israel. Participating in