Israel

The leader of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group said this week that Hezbollah’s missiles can reach all of Israel, including land and sea areas.

The European Union-Israel Association Council is being revived, signaling a major shift in relations between the two entities.

An excavation team in Israel has uncovered the first known depiction of two Old Testament heroines.

A Presbyterian Church (USA) committee passed resolutions this week calling Israel an "apartheid" state and designating May 15 as "Palestinian Nakba Remembrance Day" – a day on which Presbyterians can state their "solidarity" with Palestinians "suffering under occupation."

This week, the Israeli Knesset approved the first reading of the 24^th Knesset Disbandment Bill, which would dissolve the Knesset and lead to new elections in Israel.

Israel will be heading into an unprecedented election, the fifth in three years, after Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that the government would advance a bill to dissolve parliament next week.

An Israeli court has convicted an employee of World Vision, the Christian charity, of secretly transferring millions in funds to the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.

In a joint effort, Congress has proposed new legislation that would “direct the United States to work with our allies and partners in the [Middle East] to build an integrated air and missile defense system to take on the threat posed by Iran and its violent extremist proxies.”

In a special ceremony on Saturday, a bronze lion statue celebrating the friendship shared between Christians and Jews was dedicated in Jerusalem.