JERUSALEM (JTA) — The American-Israeli teen charged with making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers in the United States and elsewhere briefly escaped from police custody in Israel. Following a hearing in Jerusalem, the teen, 19, who managed to loosen a leg shackle, pushed away the security officer accompanying him and made a…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli father of four was fatally stabbed in the West Bank settlement of Ariel. Israeli security forces are searching the area for the Palestinian assailant in the Monday afternoon attack, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. An IDF officer who identified the attacker began to pursue him in his vehicle and…
(JTA) — The State Department has added the leader of Hamas’ political wing to its list of designated terrorists. Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, is the head of Hamas’ political bureau and a former Palestinian Authority prime minister. He was placed on the list because the State Department determined that he has either committed…
(JTA) — A senior al-Qaida leader was placed on the U.S. State Department’s list of global terrorists a day after he called on Muslims to “attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere” in response to the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. According to the State Department announcement Tuesday regarding Khalid Batarfi,…
A new report, commissioned by the Trump Administration as part of its efforts to enact new restrictions on immigration, bends over backwards to selectively pick and choose cases in which immigrants who entered the country through the diversity visa lottery or other immigration programs were directly linked to terror plots. The unsubtle agenda of the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli father of six was killed in what is presumed to be a terror-related shooting in the West Bank. Rabbi Raziel Shevah, 35, was shot Tuesday night by a passing car near Nablus, in the northern West Bank, while he was driving past the Gilad Farm junction. He died of his…
(JTA) — A former U.S. Marine arrested for plotting a Christmas Day terror attack in San Francisco said he was angry in part because U.S. President Donald Trump decided to “give away (Jerusalem) to the Jews,” according to the FBI. Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, California, was arrested and charged with attempting to provide…
The Obama administration derailed a major investigation into Hezbollah’s globe-spanning drug trafficking ring in order to save the Iran deal, a Politico report found. Beginning in 2008, the Drug Enforcement Agency ran a classified investigation into Hezbollah’s trading techniques, amassing evidence on how the terrorist group launders money and moves cocaine in North America. It…
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