When President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “The Iron Dome for America,” it was recognized as a nod to the power of Israel’s homegrown, highly successful rocket defense system. ...
The PA has barely cooperated with Israel in recent years, but with the prospect of a seaport, an operable airport, and huge financial aid from Saudi Arabia, UAE, the EU, and others, Fatah might well say “yes.” ...
Thirty members of the Sayeret Matkal, the elite commando unit of the IDF that rescued hostages from a hijacked flight in Uganda, share their memories of the rescue in a book, newly translated from the Hebrew. ...
Stan Lee is credited as the creator of Marvel Comics and the ever-expanding MCU. But the story of his life and work is more complex. ...
When you start reading a memoir by a former spy, you always hope for descriptions of bloody assassinations, break-ins into banks and embassies, and heart-pounding high-speed chases. ...
The Israeli politician Ami Ayalon has been head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, as well as commander-in-chief of the Navy and a Member of Knesset for the Labor Party. Just two years after the conclusion of his Shin Bet service, he played a prominent role in the ...
Reading Beirut Rules takes us back to the unhappy 1980s when American diplomats, spies, and the military would be assigned to the Middle East—a complex and dangerous region that very few of them understood—and became sitting ducks for increasingly sophisticated terrorists who were financed and directed by Iran. ...
Chanoch Levin spearheaded the development of Israel’s famed defensive shield against short-range rockets. For the first time, he shares some of the previously undisclosed details of how a concept more likely to be found in a science fiction thriller became a reality. ...
Nine years have passed since the mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, the senior Egyptian government official who volunteered to spy for Israel’s Mossad. Marwan remains at the center of a bitter controversy over why the October 1973 attack that launched the Yom Kippur War took Israel by surprise. ...