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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israels diplomatic reporter A suspicious boat off the stern of the Iranian ship Saviz in the Red Sea in 2018. (Al Arabiya video screenshot/File) In early March, after an Israel-owned ship was damaged by limpet mines in the Gulf of Oman, The Times of Israel wrote that “Israel could send its own message by targeting an Iranian ship in the Red Sea, such as the Saviz.” Last Tuesday, Israel is believed to have done just that, attacking that very Iranian vessel, with...

Get email notification for articles from Or Kashti Follow Apr. 10, 2021 10:33 PM After almost a decade’s struggle and a petition to the High Court of Justice, Israel’s Association of University Heads decided to admit Ariel University to its ranks. One of the main reasons for the move was the university heads’ fear of heavy pressure by the next education minister, who will most likely come from the right. Should they wait until then, the move would be seen as a surrender on their part, th...

By   Paul McLeary on April 09, 2021 at 11:48 AM President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the Pentagon, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley WASHINGTON: In a return to budgetary order after 20 years of paying for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria outside of the defense budget, the Biden administration is moving the Overseas Contingency Operations funding back into the base budget for 2022. The move comes as par...

Get email notification for articles from Amos Harel Follow Apr. 9, 2021 6:00 AM There is a lot going on in Israel’s Middle Eastern neighborhood that has gotten little attention in the media. Israel is maintaining its policy of aerial attacks in Syria, which sometimes involve considerable friction with Iranian bases and advisers. The domestic unrest in Lebanon is causing exceptional distress for Hezbollah. And there’s uneasiness in the West Bank over the possibility that the Palestinian Aut...

. A defence correspondent for Irans Tasnim news agency reported, citing sources, that the hull of the freighter, which US, Israeli, and Saudi officials, as well as the media, have previously claimed may be a covert Revolutionary Guard forward base or intelligence-gathering vessel, was damaged as a result of the explosion of limpet mines. Anonymous US sources were cited by The New York Times as claiming Israel notified the United States that its forces had attacked an Iranian vessel, the Saviz,...

The following is what we hope is a preliminary draft of a pending National Security Council action memorandum being prepared and cleared across the appropriate parts of the US government, in response to the Suez Canal blockage. It was leaked to us secretly by a friend working in the government, but we can’t say who it was. TOP SECRET — NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION DRAFT To: Mr Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor, The White House CC: Principals at State, Defense, Homeland Security, CIA, Tra...

Biden and Austin must listen to intelligence community in charting Afghanistan withdrawal Administration should be clear about Americas interest in denying ISIS and al Qaeda a base of operations Follow Us Question of the Day ANALYSIS/OPINION: When I served as director of the CIA’s Near East Division at Langley, I traveled each month to Tampa to brief then-Central Command chief Gen. Lloyd Austin. The general even then was a voracious and highly sophisticated reader of w...

"Fortunately, no casualties were reported ... and technical investigations are underway," Khatibzadeh said. "Our country will take all necessary measures through international authorities." Israeli officials declined to comment about the incident when reached by The Associated Press, as did the Savizs owner. Abbas Araghchi, a deputy in Irans Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives at a meeting on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna on Tuesday....

Iran state TV acknowledges ship attacked in Red Sea JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail This Oct. 1, 2020, satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows the Iranian cargo ship MV Saviz in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. The Iranian cargo ship, believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that has been anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen, has been attacked, Iranian state television acknowledged Wednesday, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. vi...