Israel

Israeli troops killed a wanted member of a terror cell Tuesday morning following an exchange of gunfire that killed three and injured 40 others.

Players from one of college basketball’s most prominent teams took part in a baptism ceremony in the Jordan River last week during an off day as part of the team’s summer international tour.

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.