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Israel must prepare for Iranian ‘thousand cuts’ war

'Resistance' entails mobilising proxy forces such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah

By Seth J. Frantzman

3 min read

August 25, 2022 11:50

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2022. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL ***POOL PICTURE, EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES, PLEASE CREDIT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS WRITTEN - MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/POOL*** *** Local Caption *** ישיבת ממשלה ראש הממשלה יעיר לפיד פגישה קבינט

Former Mossad chief says Israel’s worst threats come from 'within'

Efraim Halevy says that the country’s policies on conversion to Judaism and immigration pose bigger dangers than Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah

By Jotam Confino

3 min read

August 25, 2022 10:55

Efraim Halevy, former director of Israeli intelligence service the "Mossad" poses for a photograph in Amsterdam on December 2, 2015. - Halevy is in the Netherlands on the invitation of th Centre of Documentary and Information of Israel (CIDI)for commemorations marking the 20th year since the death of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. (Photo by Remko de Waal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

By Ohad Zemet

Here’s why the truth about Palestine is silenced

The ‘fixers’ on whom journalists rely know that their lives depend on not angering Hamas

2 min read

August 19, 2022 08:46

Journalists react during Israeli aerial bombardment in Gaza City on August 6, 2022. - Israel hit Gaza with air strikes and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group retaliated with a barrage of rocket fire, in the territory's worst escalation of violence since a war last year. Israel has said it was forced to launch a "pre-emptive" operation against Islamic Jihad, insisting the group was planning an imminent attack following days of tensions along the Gaza border. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel and Turkey to restore full diplomatic ties after three years of tensions

Turkey’s president called Israel ‘child-murdering' in 2018, and provided support to Hamas

By Ben Bloch

1 min read

August 17, 2022 12:05

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (L) and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a press conference in Ankara, on March 9, 2022. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Jerusalem terror attack suspect arrested after seven wounded near Western Wall

A pregnant woman and Chasidic family were among those hit by gunfire

By Felix Pope

2 min read

August 14, 2022 11:58

Israeli security inspect a bus after an attack outside Jerusalem's Old City, August 14, 2022. - Israeli police said they had arrested a suspect in a pre-dawn gun attack on a bus in central Jerusalem that wounded eight people according to an updated casualty toll. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

By Anshel Pfeffer

Islamic Jihad is decapitated... but wider war with Iran and its allies goes on

As a text was being sent to thousands of reservists on Saturday night, a guided missile was launched at a secret safe-house in Gaza City, killing PIJ leader Kahled Mansour and two of his deputies

6 min read

August 11, 2022 12:03

**FILE PHOTO** Portrait of Khaled Mansour pictured on December 12. 2021 , the senior commander in Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** דיוקנו של חאלד מנצור , המפקד הבכיר בסראיה אל-קודס, הזרוע הצבאית של הג'יהאד האסלאמי, שנהרג בתקיפה אווירית ישראלית בעיר רפיח שבדרום רצועת עזה.

Graduate sues uni after essay is failed because it didn’t blame Israel

Leeds University graduate Danielle Greyman claims her essay about crimes committed by Hamas against Palestinians was failed because it did not pin blame on the Jewish state

By Felix Pope

2 min read

July 28, 2022 11:53