In a seven-decade career packed with historic triumphs and painful setbacks, Shimon Peres took pride in always looking forward. Now, in a memoir completed weeks before his death last year at the age of 93, the former Israeli president and prime minister offers his trademark optimistic blueprint for future leadership – along with some subtle criticism of the country’s current leader. The book offers a rare glimpse into key chapters of Peres’ extraordinary life – from his early days as a protégé of Israel’s founding father David Ben-Gurion, to his covert efforts to smuggle arms to the new state and build its…
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The Israeli Navy conducted a series of drills last week, in which they simulated fighting off Hezbollah naval commandos mounting a surprise attack on Israel as part of a large-scale amphibious training exercise taking place in the north. Among other simulated scenarios, the Israeli sailors faced a swarm of jet skis and small motorboats carrying Hezbollah fighters, divers and suicide bombers. The drills are designed to prepare the navy for the most extreme scenarios in any future opening of a military campaign launched by Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Soldiers from the regular security units of the navy in the north simulated facing…
A large military facility where the Syria regime was stockpiling chemical weapons and missiles was bombed in the early hours of September 7. Damascus immediately blamed Israel for the attack, and Israel did not deny the allegation. The facility is located near Masyaf, in northwestern Syria, a region still firmly under the control of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and their allies. The official Syrian Arab News Agency reported: “Israeli warplanes fired several rockets from the Lebanese airspace at 02:42 a.m. on Thursday targeting one of the Syrian military posts near Massyaf, killing two army personnel and causing material damage…
Israel warned former US President Barack Obama that Iran wouldn’t honor the nuclear arms deal he brokered with the Islamic Republic. The ayatollahs and their elected puppets went through the motions, but never truly fulfilled the stipulations of the agreement. The West, fearful of escalating tensions, turned a blind eye to numerous violations. But that only kicked the can down the road, as the Americans say. Now, top Iranian officials are openly boasting of successfully playing the West, while retaining the ability to restart their nuclear arms program at a moment’s notice. In an August 22 interview on Iran’s IRINN…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told residents of south Tel Aviv that he was facing a “mission to return” the area “back to Israel” last Thursday evening, three days after the High Court of Justice ruled that the State of Israel cannot detain illegal migrants for more than 60 days. Paying a rare visit to south Tel Aviv—the area which has been seriously affected by the wave of illegal migration in recent years that swept through Israel’s once-porous southern border—Netanyahu inaugurated a new police station and received a briefing from the police, before addressing the matter. “I came to hear from the residents…
Two teams of Israeli aid experts traveled to Texas to provide vital relief and psychosocial support to the thousands of people who have lost everything in the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey. UNCOVER ISRAEL – Get the ISRAEL21c Weekly Edition free by email Sign Up Now! The storm, which first hit Texas last Sunday and plagued the beleaguered state with pounding rain, has left 46 dead, and tens of thousands of people homeless as flood waters have poured through city streets in Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States. The hurricane, downgraded to a tropical depression, is thought to have affected…
Ahiya Raved, Yoav Zitun Amjad Jabarin, 35, from Umm al-Fahm was indicted on Thursday for aiding three Israeli Arabs to carry out a shooting attack on the Temple Mount in July that claimed the lives of two Israeli police officers. Jabarin was charged with being an accessory to murder, being an accessory for battery, use of weapons, obstruction of justice, and conspiring to commit a crime. The terrorists Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad Jabarin, 29, Muhammad Hamed Abed al-Atif Jabarin, 19, and Muhammad Ahmad Mafdel Jabarin, 19, murdered officer Ha’il Satawi and officer Kamil Shnaan at the Temple Mount compound on July 14, 2017.…
Every individual youth, regardless of background, has a chance to be selected for the most prestigious and elite Israel Defense Forces units. By Inbal Arieli While high school seniors in other countries are preoccupied with university-related decisions, Israeli seniors are preparing for mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – approximately three years for men, two for women – and competing for elite units. In a way, their military service is a culmination of their childhood and youth experiences. UNCOVER ISRAEL – Get the ISRAEL21c Weekly Edition free by email Sign Up Now! For some youth, the IDF serves as…
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli Embassy in Cairo is expected to resume routine activities in the near future, after six years of operating only partially, Israeli officials said Tuesday. In 2011, under tight security the embassy was evacuated to the Cairo airport after the building was attacked by an angry mob. Since then, the embassy has only been partially operational. Last December, due to credible threats about a possible terror attack on the embassy, Israel’s ambassador to Egypt was summoned home. Israel asked the Egyptian authorities to implement a series of security measures before returning the ambassador, but Egypt…
A Patriot surface-to-air missile was successfully test-fired from a base in central Israel as part of an air force exercise designed to test Israel’s air defense capabilities against threats. As part of the exercise, the American-made system scored a direct hit on an airborne UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). According to a statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the successful interception was part of a larger exercise planned in advance for 2017. Lt. Col. Raz Nahum, a Patriot battalion commander, said, “During the course of the training exercise, several Patriot missiles were fired at targets designated as threats. This drill is…