At the recent cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an urgent discussion on home front preparations for a major earthquake that is expected to hit Israel in the coming years. The discussion kicked off a nationwide emergency drill involving rescue forces from the army, police, and medical organizations. “As part of our efforts and actions to improve home front emergency preparedness, we are beginning today a national earthquake exercise, called ‘Earthquake 2017,'” said Netanyahu. “There are enough earthquakes around us in all senses of the word, but we live adjacent to the Syrian-African rift, and an earthquake can…
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After years of planning, preparation and fighting for the relevant permits, Texas-based, Christian-owned Zion Oil & Gas officially began drilling in northern Israel last week. For years, Israel Today has been covering the progress of Zion Oil, a company that exists solely to bless Israel by discovering the natural resources the Bible suggests lie below the surface of the Promised Land. Zion Oil “exists because of God’s faithfulness to Israel,” company founder John Brown said in 2011. At the time, Brown was convinced that the Land was just waiting to spill forth its bounty for the Children of Israel. And he…
Israel Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan recently urged the Trump Administration to stop sending US taxpayers’ dollars to the Palestinian Authority. Erdan was speaking at the World Leaders Plenary of the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum in Washington, DC. He stressed that while Trump was on the right track in forging a global coalition to combat Islamic terrorism, that effort had to include cutting funding to bodies that encourage jihadist violence, like the Palestinian Authority. Erdan stated: “[Palestinian leader Mahmoud] Abbas is sending a message to children growing up in the PA that terror pays. The US needs to…
Just days after threatening to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Council over its sick obsession with Israel, Ambassador Nikki Haley landed in the Jewish state yesterday, where she was warmly welcomed. Haley is in the country for three days, during which time she will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin. She will also visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem and tour Israel’s northern and southern borders. Haley’s colleague, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, will accompany her throughout the visit. Haley is perhaps the most outspoken supporter of Israel in…
The high-profile U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which President Donald Trump signed during his recent visit to Riyadh and is awaiting congressional approval, raised alarms in Jerusalem due to what officials describe as the potential diminishment of Israel’s military edge over regional foes. The stability of Middle Eastern governments has been as precarious as ever since the outbreak of Arab uprisings in 2011, meaning that advanced military equipment sold to states such as Saudi Arabia could ultimately end up in the hands of Islamist regimes or terrorist groups in the event of a government collapse. The $110 billion deal…
Israel has prepared a plan for a partial evacuation of communities near its border with Lebanon should growing tension with terror group Hezbollah erupt into a military conflict, a senior Israeli military official stated. Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a declared foe of Israel, supposedly possesses over 100,000 rockets, some of which have ranges long enough to hit anywhere within the country. However, the official said that 90 percent of the rockets are short-range, putting Israeli communities close to the Israel-Lebanon border in the most danger. About 1.4 million of Israel’s residents live in the northern region, which shares borders with both Lebanon…
Israeli right-wingers got what they saw as a major endorsement for their policies when US President Donald Trump failed to publicly mention a Palestinian state even one time during his two-day visit. That stands in sharp contrast to Barack Obama, who focused heavily on the Arabs’ desired (initial) outcome of the peace process. Already when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington back in February, Trump made clear that he wasn’t married to the two-state solution, and would be giving Israel far more leeway than previous presidents when it comes to outlining the parameters of a viable and lasting peace deal.…
Palestinian Arabs probably celebrated the victory of Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election. After all, his opponent, Marine Le Pen, made abundantly clear her frustration with, if not outright disdain for, the Islamic world. But there was another aspect to the election for Palestinians, who have in recent years tried to get France to take a central role in the Middle East peace process, confident that the liberal European power would be among the first to openly embrace a Palestinian state. Surely, many thought, Macron’s liberal credentials meant he jump at the opportunity to help birth “Palestine.” However, shortly before…
Israel President Reuven Rivlin said during a meeting with church leaders in Jerusalem that Christians and Jews are “brothers.” “I say to you here, our Christian brothers of Jerusalem, our thoughts are with you at this difficult time,” stated Rivlin. “We have all seen the pictures from Syria; I visited some of the injured being treated in Israeli hospitals. What has happened there to the Christian community – and to the whole country – is a stain on all of humanity.” Rivlin went on to note that the Jewish people “know better than any what it means to pray in…