Jerusalem Court Overturns 40-Year Prayer Ban on Temple Mount

March 10, 2015 The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court awarded Jewish Temple Mount activist $126,000 (NIS 500,000) in damages for being banned from visiting the Temple Mount for two years. The ruling also requires police to protect Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount and overturns a gentlemen's agreement of more than 40 years between Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan, which blocked Jewish prayer on the Mount—an agreement meant to preserve peace between the two nations.

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PLO Decides to Cut Security Ties with Israel, Possibly Disband PA

March 10, 2015 A Ramallah official has rejected a decision by the Palestinian Liberation Organization Central Council last week to stop security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Such coordination is an "important national strategic interest" for the people of the PA, said PA leader Mahmoud Abbas' office.

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How Does One Eulogize a 4-Year-Old Terror Victim?

February 23, 2015 Adel Biton, who was hit in the head during a Palestine terrorist rock-throwing attack two years ago, is dead. Four-year-old Adele died of pneumonia. Her body had been severely compromised after a gang of Palestinian Authority Arab teens from the village of Haras sent a hail of rocks, hitting the car her mother was driving on route 5 in Samaria. The attack caused the car to swerve off the road and collide with an oncoming truck.

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Iran Deploys Troops on Israel’s Border

February 22, 2015 Iranian troops are now stationed directly on Israel’s northern border with Syria. Iran and Hezbollah have had a clear change in strategy, with Iran openly implementing an anti-Israel strategy on Israel’s borders. "Alongside Iran's direct guidance of Hezbollah's actions in the north and Hamas' in the south, Iran is trying to also to develop a third front on the Golan Heights via the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who are in southern Syria and over which Iran holds direct command," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday.

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Gaza-Bound Boat with Rocket Materials Intercepted

February 15, 2015 Three suspected smugglers were intercepted and arrested at sea during the attempted transfer of rocket- and mortar-making materials from Egypt to Gaza last month. The Israeli Navy and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) co-released information this past week about the January 19 incident.

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Hamas Calls for Attacks from Lebanon and Syria on Israel

February 8, 2015 On Wednesday, co-founder of Hamas called for Palestinian military groups in refugee camps throughout Lebanon and Syria who are loyal to Hamas, to attack Israel. Hamas continues to invest it resources in the next battle with Israel even while children are dying from exposure and families struggle to survive amid the rubble created in last summer’s war.

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UNHRC War Crimes Head William Schabas Quits

February 7, 2015 On Monday, more charges of blatant bias toward Israel were made against William Schabas, who resigned from his position as the head of the United Nation Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) “war crimes” probe of Israel. His resignation follows the latest revelations that he did consulting work for the PLO in 2012, a terrorist organization, supporting allegations that his bias against Israel prevents him from fairly conducting the probe.

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Two Killed as Hezbollah Attacks Israeli Soldiers Across Lebanese Border

February 1, 2015 Last Wednesday morning, it looked as if there might be war between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah after it fired anti-tank missiles toward Mount Dov, killing Israeli soldiers Major Yohai Klinger (25) and First Sergeant Dor Nini (20). An additional seven wounded were evacuated to hospitals in the north. An early investigation revealed that a minimum of five anti-tank missiles had been fired at the IDF convoy hitting at least two army vehicles on route 999, which is a public highway, in the Shebaa Farms area of Israel. The IDF responded with artillery fire into South Lebanon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “those behind the attack will pay.”

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Hamas Lifts Boycott on Israeli Goods as Situation Becomes Desperate

January 30, 2015 As the situation grows desperate for some in Gaza, Gaza's Ministry of Economy is ending its five-year boycott of Israeli products. Because many of the Strip’s production facilities were destroyed during last summer’s conflict with Israel and the slow pace of reconstruction, Gaza will now accept “Zionist products” in order to keep the market active, according to Ma'an, the Palestinian news agency.

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Iran Arms Terrorists in Judea and Samaria

January 26, 2015 Iran continues to threaten Israel in a variety of ways, including by arming terrorists in Judea and Samaria. “The arming policy of the West Bank is one of the policies of Iran and we will use all our capabilities in this way,” Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said last week while speaking at a memorial service for the Iranian General Abu Ali Tabtabai, who was killed recently in an Israeli Air Force strike on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights border.

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