Debkafile s intelligence sources report that when the clashes between Egyptian security forces and pro-Morsi protesters were at their peak in Cairo Wednesday, Aug. 14 – 525 dead and 3,700 wounded to date - President Barack Obama put in a call to (...)
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday said he was "hopeful" that peace talks with Palestinians will lead to a two-state solution and bring prosperity to the Middle East.
"As an Israeli I am now very hopeful because the peace process was (...)
Israel's chief negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, hailed a positive mood at resumed peace talks with the Palestinians in Washington, the first in three years.
"The atmosphere was positive," she told public radio early on Tuesday Israel time (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his cabinet to stay silent on the issue of Russian missile deliveries to Syria, public radio said on Wednesday.
His remarks came after several ministers criticised Moscow's arms deals with (...)
The Israeli military was on Monday investigating a possible overnight attack launched from Lebanon on a northern border village, after residents reported hearing explosions.
"Residents in Metulla reported hearing booms. We are still checking the (...)
A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday.
The attacks followed warnings in the name of the hacking group Anonymous that it was launching a massive attack.
Yitzhak (...)
Concerns that Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could reach militant groups bordering Israel and Turkey was the motivating factor in restoring relations with Ankara after a three year rift, Israel's prime minister said.
Benjamin Netanyahu wrote (...)
Barack Obama landed in Israel for the first time as US president on Wednesday, on a mission to ease past tensions with his hosts and hoping to paper over differences on handling Iran's nuclear threat.
Obama touched down aboard Air Force One at Tel (...)
- based Physicians for Human Rights released a statement on Sunday assure that Israel's treatment of four hunger-striking Palestinians is an "ethical failure”, adding that their rights were being violated.
The NGO also stated that the fasting (...)
Israel's Justice Ministry filed its indictment against former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a Jerusalem court on Sunday, charging him with breach of trust and fraud in a case that could further harm his political career.
Lieberman is accused (...)
Israel's president and prime minister are trading charges over making peace with the Palestinians.
President Shimon Peres told a summit of international ambassadors and diplomats Sunday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is a reliable peace (...)
The margin of Israel's defeat in a U.N. vote that granted de-facto statehood to Palestine has disappointed Israeli political leaders, whose attempts on Friday to play down the result could not disguise its significance.
The United Nations General (...)
Israel will take "whatever action is necessary" to defend its citizens from Palestinian rocket attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday as the military pressed a massive operation in Gaza.
Israel will "continue to take whatever (...)
Ambassador Yaakov Amitai had come to Israel before the Tel Aviv launched an assault on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the diplomat told Reuters. However, embassy operations in Cairo were functioning as normal, he added.
Egypt had earlier recalled its (...)
The leader of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has said that his organisation launched an Iranian-built drone that was shot down in Israeli airspace last week.
"A sophisticated reconnaissance aircraft was sent from Lebanese territory ... and (...)
Israel's military says it has fired on two Gaza members of an al-Qaida-inspired group identified as having been involved in rocket attacks and an infiltration from Egypt. Palestinians say one man was killed.
The military said they were involved in (...)
Ayman Zuwahiri
Al Qaeda's Ayman Zuwahiri is preparing a string of terrorist attacks in the five weeks up to the presidential election as the sequel to the Sept. 11 Benghazi murders, says US intelligence. The Israeli Debka site asserted in a report (...)
Hassan Golbankhan and Rev Guards chiefs
ِِAn Israeli Inteligent site quoted what it descibed as their most exclusive Iranian and intelligence sources disclosing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's personal cameraman, Hassan Golkhanban, who defected (...)
Israeli troops on Friday shot dead three heavily armed gunmen who sneaked across the Egyptian border and ambushed troops, averting "a very big terror attack," a military spokesperson said.
"They opened fire toward IDF [Israel Defence Force] troops (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insinuated in an interview published Friday that Israel cannot entirely rely on the U.S. to act against Iran's suspect nuclear program, a sign that the Israeli leader is not backing down from the sharp rhetoric that (...)
Obama and Netanyaho in a meeting last year
The White House has fixed an appointment for President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to hold talks on Sept. 27, debkafile's Washington sources report. Netanyahu will spend ten days in (...)
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President Barack Obama is sending CIA Director David Petraeus to Israel in a hurry Monday, Sept. 3, in an attempt to quench the flames of discord between Israel and his administration on the Iran issue. He will fly in from a visit to Ankara (...)
Israel's Foreign Ministry says that Egypt has appointed a new ambassador to the Jewish state, choosing an experienced career diplomat in what may be an encouraging sign for future relations between the two countries.
Atef Salem el-Ahl served as (...)
Israeli police said on Sunday that they had arrested three minors from the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin on suspicion of an August 16 petrol bomb attack which injured six Palestinians, one badly.
"Police have arrested three suspects, all of them (...)
An Israeli court on Tuesday found former prime minister Ehud Olmert guilty on one charge in a closely watched corruption case, but cleared him on two other charges, in a verdict he hailed as just.
The decision to convict Olmert on the lesser charge (...)