JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the decision to reach a cease-fire with Gaza terror groups during his address at a state memorial ceremony for David Ben-Gurion, the country’s first prime minister.“In normal times,...

JERUSALEM  (JTA) — Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman resigned his post, saying the decision to agree to a ceasefire with terrorist groups in Gaza was “a capitulation to terror.”Liberman announced his resignation at a news conference early Wednesday...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian terror groups in Gaza reportedly have agreed to commit to a cease-fire of hostilities that have seen more than 400 rockets bombard southern Israel and Israeli retaliation in a 25-hour period.Four mediators — Egypt, the...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — One person was killed and two seriously injured after a rocket fired from Gaza landed on an apartment building, as southern Israel remained under rocket siege for a second day.The rocket hit the upper floors of a four-story apartment...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was killed and another injured during the Israel Defense Forces special forces operation deep inside the Gaza Strip.The operation was exposed on Sunday night leading to clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hamas...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least six Palestinians were killed during an exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters in Gaza.One of the dead Palestinians was identified as Nur Barake, a deputy commander of an elite unit of Iz al-Din al-Qassam,...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man who infiltrated into southern Israel from Gaza set a greenhouse on fire, causing hundreds of thousands of shekels in damage.The man made it several hundred yards into southern Israel, reaching a community near Israel’s...

Teens from Gaza border communities meet Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem at the end of their 100-mile walk from Sderot in southern Israel. (Haim Zach/GPO)JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 6,000 high school students from Gaza border towns and their...

Israeli soldiers and medics at the scene of a stabbing attack by a Palestinian teen which killed American-Israeli Ari Fuld outside a mall in the Etzion bloc on Sept. 16, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Security Agency thwarted...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s military fired on a group of Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip who were launching arson balloons at southern Israel.Five people were targeted by the airstrike early Wednesday afternoon, the Palestinian Maan news agency...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli jets struck more than 80 Hamas terror targets in Gaza after dozens of rockets were fired from the coastal strip at civilian communities in southern Israel.Nearly 40 rockets were fired at southern Israel from Gaza on Friday...