Middle East Politics

 Foreign Minister Eli Cohen issued diplomatic passports to influential Likud members, as well as to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair Netanyahu, Haaretz reported on Thursday. Typically diplomatic passports are given to government officials to bypass normal travel regulations, such as visas, to facilitate government business. In Israel, diplomatic passports are typically given to … Read more

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized two oil tankers carrying about 4.5 million liters of fuel on Wednesday, claiming that the tankers were smuggling fuel, according to Iranian media. One of the two ships was carrying 2.28 million liters and had a crew of 13 foreign citizens, Ali Ozmaee, commander of the Fifth … Read more

Wars can start for simple reasons. Take the “Fan Affair,” for example. On April 29, 1827, the French consul-general, Pierre Deval, was hit with a fan by Hussein Dey, the Dey of Algiers. This incident triggered a conflict in which France occupied Algeria in 1830 for 132 years, only leaving in 1962, when Algeria … Read more

Israel is working to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, but the amount is being limited by the abilities of the various aid agencies responsible for collecting and distributing it, Col. Elad Goren, head of the Civil Department of COGAT, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, told a press briefing … Read more

Defense Minister Yoav Galant finished a visit to the border of the Gaza Strip on Friday night, where he met fighters from the Karakal Battalion and the Armored Corps. Together with the commander of the 80th Division, Brig.-Gen. Itamar Ben-Haim, the commander of the Paran Brigade, Col. Raviv Shemer, and the commander of the … Read more

Allies of Israel from all over Europe gathered March 3rd for the online conference ‘Jerusalem: Culture, Faith and Science.’  The event was hosted by MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen and Slovakian MP Peter Kremsky, and organized in cooperation with the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF). The IAF coordinates the activities of Israel Allies Caucuses in parliaments around … Read more

How significant is the latest Iranian space exploration development for the threat that its nuclear program could pose? As usual with Iranian space launches, complex questions come to bear about whether there could be dual-use technology involved which could lead to advances in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program. Until now, most of the … Read more

Hamas provided Israel with intelligence on fellow Gaza-based terror group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the months leading up to the former’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, The Washington Post reported on Thursday morning. The terror group passed on information on the PIJ to Israel with the hopes of maintaining an Israeli belief that Hamas … Read more

In the light of the Hanukkah menorah, a haunting story unfolds of unshakable resilience and a ray of hope in the midst of darkness. The hanukkiah, with its eight flames, symbolizes a miracle from ancient times. In Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, a single day’s oil illuminated the darkness for eight days. But this year, the … Read more