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The search for Ron Arad: Leaving no soldier behind

The search for Ron Arad: Leaving no soldier behind

JOSEPH FRAGER, jnsPublished October 17, 2021

(October 17, 2021 / JNS) With the recent disclosure that the Mossad carried out a courageous mission to discover what happened to Israeli Air Force Lt. Col. Ron Arad, whose plane went down over Lebanon in Oct. 1986, it is appropriate to highlight how...

Hezbollah: Uncertain future, but still dangerous

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished July 23, 2012

TEL AVIV -- Hezbollah may have hurt Israel with last week’s bus bombing in Bulgaria, but the Lebanese terrorist faction faces an uncertain future as one of its main sponsors -- Syria’s Assad regime -- faces a serious revolt and weakening support from...

Haredi Orthodox volunteer paramedics wearing gas masks during a home-front drill in Jerusalem, June 23 2011.

Is the Israeli homefront ready for war with Iran?

By Eetta Prince-Gibson, JTAPublished March 6, 2012

JERUSALEM – Shira Morgenstein, a 38-year-old secretary, rushed from her exercise class at the Hebrew University swimming pool to pick up her daughter from preschool.  "Who has time to think about war with Iran?" she laughed as she tossed her wet bathing...

Lebanese tribunal sentences three ‘spies’ to death

JTAPublished February 26, 2012

A Lebanese military court sentenced three Lebanese to death for spying for Israel. Naharnet, a Lebanese news website, reported Feb. 24 that Moussa Ali Moussa had been convicted for "having contacted the Israeli enemy and passing on information." Two other...

Azerbaijan arrests terror suspects; bombs found hidden in radios in Bangkok

JTAPublished February 22, 2012

Suspected terrorists with links to Iran and Hezbollah were arrested in Azerbaijan. The suspects are accused of planning terrorist attacks against foreigners in Baku, the nation's capital, the National Security Ministry said in an announcement Tuesday...

Assassination attempt on Barak averted

JTAPublished February 16, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israel's Mossad prevented an assassination attempt on Defense Minister Ehud Barak, a Kuwaiti newspaper is reporting. The Mossad, in cooperation with local authorities in Singapore, prevented an attempt on Barak's life during a visit this...

Iranian national believed responsible for Thai blasts

JTAPublished February 14, 2012

JERUSALEM -- An Iranian national was seriously injured by a bomb he carried shortly after a house he rented in a residential neighborhood of Bangkok exploded. The man had thrown a hand grenade at police as they pursued him Tuesday following the home explosion,...

Two people were injured when a bomb went off outside the Israeli
Embassy in New Delhi, India on Feb. 13., 2012.

After New Delhi attack, fears that Iran-Israel attacks could escalate

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished February 13, 2012

WASHINGTON—Iran and Israel appear to be locked in an assassination contest. Israeli leaders blamed Iran for two assassination attempts late Sunday and early Monday -- in Tbilisi, Georgia, and in New Delhi, India. The bomb in Tbilisi was disabled before...

Netanyahu blaming Iran for attacks on diplomats

JTAPublished February 13, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for a terrorist attack and an attempted attack on Israeli embassy employees in India and Georgia. An Israeli diplomat's wife in New Delhi was injured by a car bomb, and a second bomb was...

Israeli diplomat injured by car bomb in New Delhi

JTAPublished February 13, 2012

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli diplomat in New Delhi was injured by a car bomb, and a second bomb was disabled in a staff member's car at the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. Monday's attacks came the day after the February 12th anniversary of the assassination...

President Obama receives the King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit from
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 3,
2009.

Atlanta Jewish paper’s column on assassinating Obama sparks national uproar

By Uriel Heilman, JTAPublished January 25, 2012

NEW YORK—When news outlets began reporting last Friday that the owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times had published an opinion column seemingly suggesting that Israel might be wise to assassinate President Barack Obama, the response from prominent American...

Bomb-making material found in Bangkok

JTAPublished January 16, 2012

Bomb-making material was found in a shop near Bangkok amid warning of a possible attack on Israelis. Some 400 boxes of urea and ammonium nitrate hidden in boxes for electric fans were discovered Monday in a store about 30 miles south east of Bangkok....

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