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According to the initial investigation, the terrorist exited a vehicle and waved a knife at a security officer that was passing by. A suspected stabbing attack occurred in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood near the Hizma checkpoint north of Jerusalem on Monday, the police said. According to the initial investigation, the terrorist exited a vehicle and brandished a knife at a passing security officer, the police reported. Terrorist thwarted The terrorist was subsequently shot by the security personnel and additional civilians who had arrived on site. Continue reading this article on jpost.com

Mossad’s daring pager plot dealt a devastating blow to Hezbollah, leaving its forces shattered and sending shockwaves across the region. Israel’s intelligence agency turned deception into a weapon Two former Mossad agents revealed the details behind one of Israel’s most audacious counterintelligence operations, the “Pager Plot,” in a 60 Minutes interview broadcast on Sunday. Executed on September 17, 2024, the plan involved selling Hezbollah thousands of rigged pagers disguised as high-performance devices, which Mossad later detonated, causing widespread chaos and severe damage to the organization. The operation began over a decade ago, with Mossad initially weaponizing walkie-talkies sold to Hezbollah. “A walkie-talkie was a weapon just like…

Netanyahu: Same force employed against Iran’s other terrorist arms will be used against Yemeni rebels; Mossad chief said to warn striking Houthis not enough; Tehran said to fear direct attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Israel would act against the Houthi rebels in Yemen with the same force it used against Iran’s other “terrorist arms,” appearing to indicate the start of a stepped-up campaign against the Islamic Republic’s proxy group, after a ballistic missile crashed into a Tel Aviv playground over the weekend. At the same time, Israeli reports said that senior defense officials, including the head…

Gantz accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging deal, PM says ex-war cabinet minister ‘cannot preach’; thousands of religious Zionists gather in Jerusalem to call for hostage deal As working groups continued their efforts in Qatar to hammer out a hostage and ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Sunday that Hamas has provided signs of life for several captives. Israel knows the whereabouts of most of the hostages, the official said, declining to say whether the Palestinian terror group has provided a list of living hostages it is holding. The official added that Israel…

Israeli forces also found maps of Israeli communities that bordered the Palestinian enclave. The IDF destroyed three tunnel routes that, when combined, ran a length of 7.5 kilometers in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Friday, the military announced. The tunnel routes were first identified by the IDF’s Kfir Brigade under the command of its 162nd Division, along with engineering troops and soldiers from the military’s Yahalom Unit. The tunnels also reached dozens of meters in depth, the IDF update noted, and soldiers found military equipment that was captured by Hamas terrorists on October 7 of last year. Forces also discovered…

The Hezbollah headquarters were destroyed along the underground route.  All the weapons inside were said to have been seized The IDF’s 188th Brigade destroyed an underground Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon used by the terror organization to store weapons and conduct terror activities, the military said on Wednesday. The IDF explained that during an operation conducted by engineering forces, an underground route spanning dozens of meters was discovered, leading to one of the headquarters of the terror group. Hezbollah had reportedly used the site to coordinate numerous terror activities and rocket attacks targeting communities in the Galilee over the past…

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on Sunday, December 15, that Israel will be shutting its embassy in Ireland, citing the “extreme anti-Israel policy of the Irish government.” “The antisemitic actions and rhetoric that Ireland is taking against Israel are based on delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state and on double standards,” said Sa’ar in a statement. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called the decision “deeply regrettable.” “I utterly reject the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel,” Harris wrote on X following Sa’ar’s announcement. “Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-international law.” Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said the two countries…

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon on Wednesday warned that the Iranian ayatollah regime threatens world peace with its acts of global terrorism and ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons. “The Islamic regime of Iran is a danger to the entire world. The recent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran’s nuclear progression, alongside the recent letter from the UK, France and Germany, highlighting Iran’s, and I quote, ‘significant non compliance,’ were cries for immediate action,” Danon argued. “This is not about a hypothetical future. The danger is already here, looming on the horizon,” he continued. Danon also urged the…

A multistory school building in Ramat Gan that collapsed when it was hit by the rocket warhead from a partially intercepted ballistic missile fired at Israel by Houthi rebels in Yemen will be torn down and rebuilt, the city’s mayor said Thursday as he visited the site and locals assessed the heavy damage. Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen estimated the damage at NIS 40 million ($11 million) and said the Ramat Ef’al elementary school would get a replacement building. The Israel Defense Forces initially said that overnight it intercepted a missile fired at central Israel by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis. It said sections…

Prime minister says group is last Iranian proxy still standing; Katz warns rebels ‘the long arm of Israel will reach you’ Hours after the Israel Defense Forces carried out intense airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel’s operations are protecting not just itself from the Iran-backed rebel group but the entire world. “They are not only attacking us,” Netanyahu said in a video statement. “They are attacking the entire world. They are attacking international shipping and trade routes.” Dozens of planes struck Houthi targets along Yemen’s western coast and, for the first time,…