Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated a new town in the Golan Heights to U.S. President Donald Trump during a festive ceremony on Sunday.
Supporting both America and Israel is ‘supporting two of the greatest forces for good’ in the world,, Israel’s Ambassador to the US told AIPAC on Sunday evening.
Israel pounded Iranian targets in Syria on Monday in retaliation for the Islamic Republic’s missile attack on the Golan Heights over the weekend. By: TPS The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has assets on the ground in Damascus, reported that the Israeli missiles destroyed weapons depots and military posts belonging to the Iranians… Read more »
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to discuss the pullout of U.S. troops from Syria and recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
A captured Syrian commander explained what caused him to retreat when his tanks were on the verge of storming through to the center of the Jewish state.
Members of the IDF Northern Command Combat Engineering Corps are digging trenches and erecting a fence around the seven-mile-long area of Har Dov (also known as the Shebaa Farms) — a strip of land at the intersection of the Lebanese-Syrian border and the Israeli Golan Heights.
Russian efforts to reach a truce between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and various rebel groups in Syria appear to be progressing, so Israel is preparing for the day after, when it is safe to expect that Jihadists will turn their attention to the “Zionist enemy.”
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of Iran’s volunteer Basij militia, toured the abandoned city of Quneitra, located on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, no doubt observing Israel’s border at the same time.
On July 20, 1949, the Syrian-Israeli Armistice was signed. Syria was the last of the Arab countries that had attacked the newly established State of Israel to sign an armistice agreement.
This exciting and uplifting film highlights the miraculous events of the 1967 Six Day War, emphasizing the Divine hand orchestrating these remarkable events.
The Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq was a pogrom, or “violent dispossession” carried out against the Jewish community on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1 and 2, 1941.
The tranquility of country life contrasts sharply with Middle East tensions all around. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently drew renewed attention to the Golan Heights by vowing to forever hold the Golan.
The possession of chemical weapons by ISIS in close proximity to Israel would be perceived as crossing a “red line.” Israel would take immediate action to destroy the threat.
According to recent reports, Netanyahu is upset over indications that a negotiated deal on the Syrian civil war that is being worked on by world powers would declare the Golan Heights as Syrian territory.
While welcoming efforts to achieve peace in Syria, Israel demands that its security is ensured as well, and Iran and Hezbollah cells operating out of the Syrian Golan must be defeated.
Israeli rule over the Golan Heights should be considered “lawful and just” and should be supported by the United States and the international community, Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, argued in an analysis for Real Clear Politics.
Holding on to the strategic Golan Heights was even more imperative than Israelis had realized at the time, considering the Syrian civil war and the regional instability.
Deriding BDS supporters as "fanatics" and "fools," Israel's envoy to the US Ron Dermer decided to combat them by giving products made in Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights as holiday gifts.
The UN General Assembly adopted six anti-Israel resolutions sponsored by the Palestinian Authority and Syria. Incredibly, the UN body also insisted Israel relinquish the strategic Golan Heights - at a time when Assad is massacring his own people and ISIS is on the march.
Netanyahu warned Putin in September that Israel would respond with force to any Iranian threats based in Syria, despite a Russian military presence there.
Less known than Masada but with a similar story, the ancient Jewish city of Gamla, located in the Golan, was one of the first communities to fall to the Romans.
Israeli leaders gathered with the family of hero Eli Cohen to mark the 50th anniversary of his execution and remember his supreme sacrifice for his country.
Between 1948 and 1967, there were no civilians living on the Golan Heights, which was under Syrian control. Under Israeli administration, the area has come to life.
