Thursday, 27 January 2022 | Today is the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a day that transcends borders and religions as the world remembers the terrible genocide during which an estimated six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered. On January 27, 1945, the Red Army Russian forces reached the Auschwitz–Birkenau extermination camp
Continue Reading »Thursday, 27 January 2022 | While negotiations in Vienna on the nuclear issue continue sluggishly without a breakthrough, Iran continues to exert pressure and threaten the negotiating partners. Moreover, Iran is more than just implying that it has other options if no arrangement is reached, including linking the advanced nuclear capabilities it has reached in
Continue Reading »Thursday, 27 January 2022 | The total number of Palestinian terror attacks in 2021 reached 54, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. It said that despite incidents related to Israel’s 11-day conflict last May with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the scope of terrorism in
Continue Reading »Thursday, 27 January 2022 | Lebanese President Michel Aoun declared on Wednesday that his country was prepared to restart indirect negotiations with Israel over the two countries’ maritime borders. According to Israel’s Kan news, Israel responded to the announcement by saying that “for us, the negotiations have never been stopped. But Lebanon must stop raising
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 26 January 2022 | The Israeli Air Force [IAF] held a drill to practice a long-range strike using a squadron of long-range F-15 fighter jets, Army Radio reported on Tuesday. The sortie by the 69th Squadron was reportedly joined by IAF Commander Maj.–Gen. Amikam Norkin. Army Radio cited the military as saying that the
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 26 January 2022 | Top Israeli government officials and leaders of Jewish organizations held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the possibility of evacuating Jews from Ukraine if Russia invades. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been amassing troops at the two countries’ borders since the fall, reportedly including the placement of weapons such as
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 26 January 2022 | Isaac Herzog will travel to the United Arab Emirates next week, in what is set to be the first official visit by an Israeli president to the Gulf state. During the two-day visit, Herzog is set to meet with Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 26 January 2022 | The Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second largest and hugely influential group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas, does not believe that the conflict with Israel is over Jerusalem, settlements, borders, checkpoints or Palestinian prisoners. Like Hamas, PIJ’s “logical intellectual vision considers all of Palestine still occupied from the
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 25 January 2022 | The year 2021 was the most anti-Semitic in the past decade, according to a report released Monday by the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization [WZO]. The average number of recorded incidents was more than 10 per day, though the organizations said that significantly more likely occurred but were not
Continue Reading »Friday, 25 January 2022 | Iran is only weeks away from obtaining a nuclear bomb, an INSS [Institute for National Security Studies] report says. The INSS published its 2022 annual Strategic Report claiming Iran is only weeks away from achieving nuclear capability. According to the strategic assessment presented to President Isaac Herzog, Tehran is also
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