Author: AFSI Staff

Israel will go back to elections as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form coalition.

Exactly one month after the wearing in of the 21st Knesset, a majority of the Knesset voted late Wednesday to disperse themselves and initiate an unprecedented repeat election on September 17.

‘I will do everything in my power to prevent another election,’ President Reuven Rivlin.

‘They’ve got enough turmoil over there, it’s a tough place,’ President Donald Trump

As elections loom, Bennett and Shaked get set to make a comeback ~JNS Brief

Monday night May 20, only a few short hours after the conclusion of the Ilhan Must Go Demonstration and Billboard Launch in Times Square, the event received air time on The Ingraham Angle.

The full segment can be viewed HERE.

Thank you to Fox News Channel and Laura Ingraham for devoting much needed attention to this important issue.

One month after Moshe Herzlich paid the tax bill on his new home in the Tapuah West outpost, security forces arrived at his door and demolished his pink stucco one-story structure, nestled on a Samaria hilltop.

“They don’t treat terrorists this way,” said Herzlich, who was surprised to find a large contingent of IDF soldiers and border police at his door in the morning. He had not been served with a demolition order, he said – the security forces said that one had been faxed to him.

Full story HERE.

Armored vehicles were transferred to the Palestinian Authority security services as a gift from the EU and were reportedly sent to Judea and Samaria through Jordan, with Israel’s approval.

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan attacked the defense establishment decision stating that the transfer is a “total abandonment of human life and taking an unacceptable risk both of the lives of IDF soldiers and of the lives of the residents of Judea and Samaria.”

Many were hopeful that the recent transfer of Qatari money to Gaza would, at least temporarily, calm the terrorist organizations.

Sadly, this is not the case. The firing of balloons into Israel is only increasing. At least three fires have broken out since the morning hours in the Be’eri and Shokeda forests and near Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

In addition to the incendiary balloons, Gaza schools were closed and approximately 10,000 Arabs were called to riot and mark Nakba Day along the Gaza security fence.

At an event on Tuesday marking the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Embassy move to Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that the Jewish people are “the only people on Earth who live in the same land where they lived 3,000 years ago, with the same capital, the same language and the same religion.” What makes the feat even more extraordinary, he added, is that the Jews were exiled from the land and came back to it.

3,000 years old and 71 years young! AFSI is thrilled to be celebrating Israel @ 71. It was this time last year that our Chizuk Mission Trip had the privilege to be in Israel and join in the festivities for Israel @70. In a little over two weeks our group will be travelling to Israel and looks forward to visits throughout the land, meeting with the people….and the enjoying the food!

Watch the Independence Day Flyover from the great big blue skies front row seat HERE.

“We support Israel 100% in its defense of its citizens.” ~President Donald Trump

“The Israeli’s have every right to defend themselves.” ~ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

This past weekend, Israelis living in the south of the country woke up to yet another barrage of rockets from Gaza. Between Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist groups launched over 600 rockets and mortars at Israelis from Gaza (as of May 5th at 6 pm). Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs report HERE.

The 4 Israeli civilians killed were: Moshe Agadi (58), Ziad Alhamada (49), Moshe Feder (67) and Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Pashwazman (21).

Netanyahu: Gaza Campaign Not Over, Requires Patience and Judgement ~Herb Keinon

Haley: Why Should Israel Sit Back? Former US ambassador to the UN blasts international community’s double standards as Israel is attacked by rockets. ~Arutz Sheva Staff

We at AFSI support Israel’s right to keep its citizens safe by any means it deems best. We hope in the next round, and unfortunately it appears there will be one, that Israel will not hesitate to use whatever means necessary to insure its people a safe homeland.

The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of strikes north of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night in response to hundreds of incendiary balloons that Hamas launched at Israel earlier that day.

Sirens were sounded early Thursday morning in the Shaar Hanegev and Sdot Negev regional councils in southern Israel.

The IDF confirmed that two launches had been identified from Gaza toward Israel.

The rockets appear to have exploded in open areas, without causing injuries or damages.

The IDF responded that, “Hamas bears full responsibility for all that is taking place in the Gaza Strip, as well as all things coming out of it.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu promised community leaders in 2017 that his government would build bypass roads at key locations in Judea and Samaria.

Today that promise has been kept. Plans for paving bypass roads in Judea and Samaria allowing Israeli residents to avoid dangerous Arab villages have been approved.