Analysis

Health Ministry committee determines that certain doctors in Israel who discourage vaccinations are partly responsible for the measles outbreak that has infected over 4,000 citizens.

Iran's top priority is to preserve the rule of the ayatollahs, so if the U.S. is prepared to back threats with military action, it will agree to a better nuclear deal from President Trump.

From the historical recognition of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, inaugurating the new embassy in the capital a year ago, withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran and many other measures, U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are firmly in Israel's corner with no sign of slowing down.

We need to understand that the shockwaves from a clash between the U.S. and Iran, if it indeed occurs, will reach us. If attacked, Tehran will unleash it proxies, chief among them Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, against Israel.

Iran has failed to bust the American embargo on its oil exports, while Israel and the moderate Sunni states are cooperating to check Iranian influence in the Middle East.

The defense and security establishment believes that deterrence has been restored, but not fully, and that if no political understandings are reached, it is only a matter of time until the next escalation.

“Whether journalists believe the IDF’s statements or not, the media have a duty to report the story fully,” says Simon Plosker, managing editor for HonestReporting. “Telling one side alone is willfully naive at best, and a worrying betrayal of the truth at worst.”

According to the Left's plan, IDF soldiers will enter Gaza to clean out the tunnels, bunkers, homes and secret weapons stashes and then hand the Palestinian Authority a spotless Gaza Strip. The IDF will then withdraw.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad will boast of their achievements against Israel, but Gaza will continue to sink further into the gutter of extremism and backwardness. We can safely assume, therefore, that the latest round of fighting won't be the last.

Iron Dome saves lives, but every interceptor fired costs some $80,000. Cheaper laser-based alternatives exist that can eradicate threats from multiple rocket barrages.