Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia located on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively...
Israel’s military on Saturday found itself caught off-guard, despite decades in which the country became a technology powerhouse that boasts one of the world’s most impressive armed forces and a premier intelligence agency. The questions for Israeli authorities...
How genocide officially became a crime, and why South Africa is accusing Israel of committing it The ruling amounted to an overwhelming rebuke of Israel’s wartime conduct and added to mounting international pressure to halt the nearly 4-month-old offensive that has killed more than 26,000 Pa...
Bedrich Smetana likely adapted the melody from a Swedish version of the melody, "Ack, Värmeland" and used it for his symphonic poem "The Moldau", part of Má Vlast. This later became a Czech folk song, "Kocka leze dírou". The modern adaptation of the music for Hatikvah was probably...
Israel's war in Gaza may be different to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, but the similarities are important. Both became bloody stalemates without a clear political horizon – but U.S. President-elect Donald Trump can help Israel end it ...
Nasser Yassine, head of the Lebanon Crisis Observatory, told CNN on Saturday that “more than 100,000 have been officially registered (as displaced), but many more – up to 250,000 – are estimated to be in formal and informal collective shelters.” The increase in cross-border fighting ...
It became a participant in Lebanon’s civil war, which ended in 1990, and led a fight against Israeli forces occupying southern Lebanon, ultimately driving them out in 2000. A terror designation: In Lebanon, Hezbollah is officially considered a “resistance” group tasked with confronting ...
This past week, she became a commanding officer. Kol ha Kavod, way to go! The entire family is praying for her return. Four of our young IDF heroes who were critically wounded in battle against the Hamas terrorists had to fight to live. Amital, Roee, Ariel and Ari lost both their ...
Title VI, a law that bans discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in any institution or program that receives federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education, became the center of dozens of investigations across the country. ...
The Houthis say five of their fighters have been killed in the initial strikes, and vow to continue their attacks on shipping. On the same day, theInternational Court of Justice hear opening statementsin a case in which South Africa accuse Israel of committing...