Many Arab media outlets have been taking advantage of Israel’s fire disaster to disparage the Jewish state and rejoice over its misfortune. Meanwhile, officials in Jerusalem presented a grim assessment of the public relations damage suffered by Israel as result of its inability to effectively fight the fire. “The PR damage in the world is huge; Israel [...]

IDF forces are constantly assisting the efforts in the Carmel disaster area. In addition, teams of the Home Front Command are currently dealing with hazardous materials on the scene. Since the beginning of the incident, a substantial number of IDF forces have been operating, including infantry battalions, search and rescue teams, cranes, vehicles, bulldozers, IDF fire [...]

Egypt has announced it will also be sending fire extinguishing places to Israel following the Carmel fire disaster. Planes from foreign countries will start arriving in Israel in the early morning hours on Friday. (Source: Ynet)

Turkish officials announced Thursday that Turkey has offered to send Israel two firefighting aircraft to help control the huge blaze was continuing to spread through northern Israel. Despite tensions between the Jerusalem and Ankara Turkey decided to offer help along with European countries such as Greece, Spain and Cyprus. (YWN Israel Desk)

Overnight, an IDF force identified a number of armed Palestinians near the security fence in the Northern Gaza Strip. An IAF aircraft, accompanied by an IDF ground force using tank shells, fired towards the militants, identifying a hit. No casualties were caused amongst IDF forces. Since the beginning of 2010, approximately 100 different terror-related incidents took [...]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday announced that he will appoint a new Mossad chief in the next few days. Netanyahu consulted with advisers and security officials on the subject. The current Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, is set to set down from his position at the end of the year.  Have you checked out YWN Radio yet? Click HERE to listen! (Source: Jpost)

El Al will stop providing security services to other Israeli airlines as of next April, El Al CEO Eliezer Shkedy announced Monday. The decision comes in the backdrop of Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s announcement of the establishment of a state security network. Shkedy also demanded a full refund from the state for providing security to El [...]

An appeal by Yigal Amir that would allow him to pray with other religious prisoners was rejected by Petah Tikva Magistrates Court on Thursday. The state prosecutor answered the appeal by saying that state demands that Amir stay in solitary confinement. (Source: Jpost)

The annual cost of medical treatment of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who is admitted in the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, stands at NIS 1.6 million ($440 million), the Knesset’s Finance Committee learned Tuesday. The Finance Ministry received the committee’s approval to take out the costs from the Health Ministry’s budget instead [...]

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday criticized Defense Minister Ehud Barak for his actions during the IDF raid on the Turkish flotilla ship the Mavi Marmara in May, Army Radio reported. “I heard recently that the political echelon is only responsible for authorizing an action and not for the technical details of an action. There [...]