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The latest news and information about Israel that’s not generally reported in the UK media. Also featuring some of Israel’s incredible innovations and achievements.

March 20

Israel Update 20.3.19

NOTE: I was in Tel Aviv last Thursday evening when the warning sirens went off. We took shelter in a stairwell along with others, including young children, waiting there some minutes until after the sirens ended, as 90 seconds wasn’t long enough time to reach a bomb shelter. It was an unnerving experience. HRG   […]

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March 13

Israel Update 13.3.19

This Update is continuing to highlight the attacks on Israeli communities close to the Gaza Border and the IDF soldiers protecting them, as this topic is virtually unreported outside Israel. HRG   GAZA   A cluster of balloons launched from Gaza, carrying a missile warhead for the first time, landed in Israel on Saturday. Israeli […]

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March 7

Israel Update 7.3.19

TERROR ATTACK   Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a predawn car-ramming attack in the West Bank on Monday, one of them seriously, the army said. The force opened fire on the three occupants of the vehicle, killing two and wounding the third. Read more here   The car-ramming attack on Monday involved three Palestinians. […]

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February 28

Israel Update 28.2.19

NOTE: Internal Israeli politics are outside the remit of this Update.   GAZA BORDER VIOLENCE CONTINUES Hamas has recently increased its night time rioting near the Gaza border fence, which includes throwing explosives and using loudspeakers to simulate missile alerts. The goal, to frighten the Israeli residents, is working. Psychological distress is especially evident among […]

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February 21

Israel Update 21.2.19

GAZA BORDER – VIOLENCE CONTINUES   Over the past few weeks, Gazans have been rioting every evening. On Sunday they carried out a violent demonstration along the northern part of the Strip, during which tyres were set on fire and rioters hurled explosive devices toward Israeli soldiers. A soldier was wounded by shrapnel to several parts […]

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February 14

Israel Update 14.2.19

TERRORIST MURDER   A Palestinian man, suspected of brutally murdering young Israeli woman Ori Ansbacher, 19, in a Jerusalem forest on Thursday, was arrested. The suspect who was in Israel illegally has reportedly confessed to the murder. Read more here   A group of Palestinian and Israeli coexistence activists paid a condolence visit to the […]

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February 7

Israel Update 7.2.19

  GAZA ROCKET ATTACKS ON SOUTHERN ISRAEL Alert sirens sounded Wednesday evening in a number of Gaza border communities as a rocket launched from the Strip exploded in southern Israel… Earlier in the evening, a rocket fired from Gaza towards Israel failed to clear the border and landed inside the coastal strip. In response, an […]

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January 31

Israel Update 31.1.19

AID TO BRAZIL   130 IDF soldiers left Israel on Sunday for the area of the collapsed dam in Brazil. The delegation includes engineering experts, doctors, search and rescue teams, firefighters, and soldiers from the Israeli Navy’s underwater missions unit. Search and rescue teams are equipped with advanced means of cellular location, underwater radars and […]

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January 24

Israel Update 24.1.19

  IRAN FIRED A MISSILE FROM SYRIA TOWARDS ISRAEL ON SUNDAY Israeli fighter jets struck Iranian and Syrian military targets, air defence batteries and Iranian Quds Forces positions throughout Syria early Monday in response to the firing of a missile by Iranian forces in Syria toward the Golan Heights. The missile was intercepted by the […]

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January 18

January 17

Hizbullah threat The IDF on Saturday located a sixth attack tunnel dug by Hizbullah from Lebanon into Israeli territory. “The tunnel was 800 metres long on its Lebanese side and infiltrated dozens of metres into Israel. The tunnel is two metres high, one metre in diameter, and approximately 55 metres deep. It’s equipped with railway […]

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January 10

January 9

Gaza On Sunday morning, a bomb was flown into Israel using a large cluster of balloons and a model drone. The explosive device landed in a carrot field in southern Israel. In response, Israeli military helicopters attacked two Hamas observation posts. Subsequently, Gazan terrorists fired a rocket into Israel early Monday, which was intercepted by […]

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January 3

January 2

Happy 2019 to my readers! Aid to Indonesia Volunteers from Israeli NGO IsraAID flew to Indonesia (a Muslim-majority country having no diplomatic relations with Israel) to provide safe water and psychological support in the wake of the tsunami disaster. Some IsraAID workers had been there since the last earthquake. Watch the video on Youtube Hisbullah […]

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December 20

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Hizbullah The Israel Defence Forces located a fourth attack tunnel dug by Hizbullah from Lebanon into Israeli territory, the army said Sunday. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon said Monday: “Based on UNIFIL’s independent assessment, UNIFIL has so far confirmed the existence of all the four tunnels close to the Blue Line in northern Israel. […]

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