Tag: Israel

Israel/Palestine/Egypt. Israel, Egypt leaders meet to de-escalate Gaza tensions (Al Jazeera)

The meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi likely focused on de-escalating tensions between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in...

Israel/Palestine. Fears for Palestinian hunger strikers protesting imprisonment (Al Jazeera)

Tensions have been building for months but the situation could soon explode as anger over Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners reaches boiling point. What is...

Israel. The game is not yet over, and vaccines still matter: Lessons from a study on Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination (Oren Heller, Yaniv Shlomo, Yung...

Just a few months ago, we almost sang a song of triumph in the fight against the pandemic. The infection numbers drastically decreased in...

Defense/Israel/UK. IAI debuts new hybrid ground robot joining the UK army inventory (Jen Judson, Defense News)

Israel Aerospace Industries will debut REX MK II, its newest ground robot set to be fielded to British troops, at DSEI, the London-based defense exhibition, which...

Israel. The Terrorists’ Escape from Gilboa Prison: A Wake-Up Call for Israeli Society (Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA Center)

Recent events, including the escape of six terrorists from Gilboa Prison and the death of Sgt. Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who was shot point blank...

Israel-Palestine. Infographic: How many Palestinians are imprisoned by Israel? (Mohammed Haddad, Al Jazeera)

Six Palestinian prisoners broke out of Gilboa jail, a maximum-security prison about 4km (2.5 miles) from the boundary with the occupied West Bank, on...

Israel/Palestine. What fate awaits the rearrested Palestinian prisoners? (Zena Al Tahhan, Al Jazeera)

The four recaptured Palestinian prisoners – who broke out of an Israeli prison last week – are likely to face additional prison time and...

Afghanistan/Israel/Iran. The Real Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle (Jonathan Ariel, BESA Center)

Afghanistan has proved once again that even a superpower cannot win a war against a proxy as long as it refuses to confront the...

Al Qaida/Israel. The Tel Aviv plot (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

Recently declassified information from the first-ever interrogation of someone presumed to be a senior al-Qaida operative captured after 9/11 provides dramatic new insights into...

Defense. Israel receives fourth and final Sa’ar 6 warship from Germany (Seth Frantzman, Defense News)

Two of Israel's new Sa'ar 6 warships are shown. (Courtesy of the Israel Defense Forces) Israel has received its fourth and final Sa’ar 6 warship...

USA/Israel. Why Israel’s transfer to US Central Command could help deter Iran (Bradley Bowman and Behnam Ben Taleblu,

An Israeli Iron Dome anti-rocket system, right, and an American Patriot missile defense system are shown during a joint U.S.-Israel military exercise on March...

Defense. Rafael aims to supply Spike LR2 missiles to Serbia, Poland (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

Israeli company Rafael makes the anti-tank guided missile Spike LR II. (Courtesy of Rafael) Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems hopes to add Serbia to its...

USA/Israel. US Central Command absorbs Israel into its area of responsibility (Seth Frantzman, Defense News)

U.S. Air Force F-35A jets and Israeli Air Force F-35I Adirs fly in formation during exercise Enduring Lightning III over Israel on Oct. 12,...

Israel/Palestine. Why Did the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas Meet with Defense Minister Benny Gantz? (Pinhas Inbari, JCPA)

Mahmoud Abbas and his cabinet in Ramallah. Prime Minister Mohammed Shteyah is closest to him on the left and Majed Faraj, head of the...

Hamas/Israel. Hamas has its Own Logic. What is Israel’s Logic? (Udi Dekel, INSS)

Hamas is conducting an ongoing campaign of attrition against Israel. The organization began initiating violent incidents from the Gaza Strip the very same week...

Israel. To Secretary of State Blinken: Repatriating Israeli Captives Is a Basic Humanitarian Right under International Conventions (Alan Baker, JCPA)

Hadar Goldin, Oron Shaul, Avera Mengistu, and Hisham al-Sayed During the August 27, 2021, meeting in Washington between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, President Joe Biden,...