Two Iron Dome batteries were deployed in Safed and Haifa, as a result of tensions in the north.
Following an IDF evaluation of developments in the region, culminating in Israeli strikes on Syria – as confirmed by officials – Israel is bolstering protective measures in preparation for possible retaliatory rocket fire. Continue reading
Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
As Syria’s two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran’s confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program, people were woken in the Syrian capital by explosions that shook the ground like an earthquake and sent pillars of flame high into the night sky.
“Night turned into day,” one man told Reuters from his home at Hameh, near one of the targets, the Jamraya military base.
Source: Reuters – Israel strikes Syria, says targeting Hezbollah arms
Israeli military officials have stated that Syrian troops have used chemical weapons multiple times against the rebels seeking to overthrow the government of President al-Bashir.
Brigadier General Itai Brun said that military intelligence believes that the chemical weapon used was the deadly nerve gas sarin. Continue reading
Israeli researchers have released a report showing a significant increase in anti-Semitic attacks in 2012. The report was released on the eve of Israel’s memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.
The report from Tel Aviv University says that anti-Semitic violence increase 30 percent in 2012. The report showed 686 attacks in 34 countries. 273 of the attacks, 40 percent, involved violence against people. Continue reading
Pastor Jim & Lori welcome Rabbi Jonathan Cahn and Dino & Cheryl Kartsonakis for the Passover Celebration for Day 1 on The Jim Bakker Show. Continue reading
Israel’s Prime Minister has reached a deal with other parties to form a coalition government according to various government sources.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Yisrael Beitenu party will work with the centrist Yesh Atid and Hatnua and a far-right party, Jewish Home. The negotiations took five weeks after the January 22nd election. Continue reading
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erodgan has called Zionism a “crime against humanity” and said that “Islamophobia [should] be considered a crime against humanity.”
Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have a right to a nation on the land that the Bible designates as the nation of Israel. Continue reading
Pastor Jim & Lori discuss Revelation 9 for Day 1 on The Jim Bakker Show. Continue reading
Israeli security forces killed two Hamas terrorists in a an air strike according to Palestinian officials. The air strike occurred in Rafah on the Egyptian border.
Israel said the two men were part of a group in “a very advanced stage of planning” of major terror attack on the nation. It’s the second strike by Israeli forces against Hamas terrorist cells in the last two weeks. Continue reading
Tensions between the Israeli and United States governments reached fever pitch over the issue of Iran’s nuclear program in a recent high-level meeting between the prime minister and the American ambassador, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Friday. Continue reading