Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a direct warning to Iran Tuesday morning during remarks at the swearing in ceremony for incoming IDF Chief of Staff Lt. General Aviv Kochavi, bluntly telling the clerical regime in Teheran to remove its forces from Syria. “I’m telling you, get out of there fast,” he said. “We wont stop attacking.” He also mocked an Iranian denial that Israel struck its forces in Damascus last Friday and a correlating denial by that Iranian official that Teheran even has any forces in Syria to be struck.

Israel’s pre-election scene was in an uproar Tuesday following a brief statement by former IDF Chief of Staff and leader of the new Israeli Resilience Party Benny Gantz, who told a group of leaders from the Druze community that he would work to “fix” the ‘Jewish Nation-State Law’ passed last year in the Knesset. The statement, the first by Gantz as he attempts to launch a political career, set off a firestorm of praise and criticism from his opponents all over the political map.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was in New York on Monday to preside over the PA’s assumption of the chairmanship of the Group of 77, the largest bloc of member states within the UN which nearly always votes together in the General Assembly. Before assuming the new role, Abbas gave a speech in which he demanded that the UN deploy international peacekeeping troops to protect Palestinians from what he described as Israeli aggression.

Israel-based Health Tech company MobileODT recently saw its Automated Visual Evaluation (AVE) machine learning algorithm given a stamp of approval from the National Cancer Institute and National Library of Medicine in the US. The machine is credited with giving doctors a powerful new tool for the early detection of cervical cancer, enabling more effective treatments and higher survival rates.

Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi was sworn in as the IDF’s 22nd chief of staff on Tuesday at the IDF’s Kirya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv, with his wife and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pinning the star on his uniform and newly retired Lt.-Gen. (res) Gadi Eisenkot on hand to hand off command. The orderly transition of command authority was also witnessed by officials and diplomats from several allied countries.

Three years after the JCPOA was implemented in mid-January 2016, two major developments are particularly noteworthy: the new approach toward Iran and the nuclear deal adopted by US President Trump, culminating with his decision to leave the JCPOA in May 2018, and efforts exerted by Iran to ensure that the deal remains intact. Whether and how there will be a willingness on the part of the regime to return to the negotiating table is an open question, but in any case, two major problems related to the JCPOA that arose over the course of 2018 demand immediate attention.

Documentation from the Nuclear Archives reveals a major, former nuclear weapons site under Project 110 of the Amad Plan that was not previously identified. Project 110 was charged with the development and production of nuclear warheads. The most likely purpose of this site was as a production-scale facility to produce uranium metal components for nuclear weapons, fulfilling Iran’s long-time quest to acquire and develop uranium metallurgy and components suitable for nuclear weapon manufacturing. Satellite imagery analysis supports these findings.

The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem operates according to a plan which centers on several core objectives, including to be a blessing to Israel and the Jewish People and to convey the importance of Israel to the wider Christian world.