Emanuele Ottolenghi

January 23, 2025 | |

‘Shared Challenges’: Israel Considers Sending Russian Weapons Seized From Hezbollah to Ukraine

Legislation Would Transfer Russian Weapons to Ukraine: Acknowledging common threats, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22.

December 15, 2024 | |

‘We Can Always Look for Other Ways’: Key Iranian Supply Line to Hezbollah Broken After Assad Ouster

Iran’s Route through Syria Severed: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a public address that Hezbollah’s critical supply line – running from Iran through Iraq and Syria into Lebanon – no longer exists following the overthrow of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by Islamist rebels on December 8.

December 13, 2024 | |

‘Peace, Development, and Mutual Understanding’: Paraguay Reopens Embassy in Israeli Capital Jerusalem

Latin American Nation Reopens Embassy in Jerusalem: Paraguay reopened its embassy in Jerusalem on December 12, becoming the first nation to move its main diplomatic mission to Israel’s...

November 19, 2024 | |

Israel Discovers Hezbollah Stockpiles of Russian Weapons

IDF Finds Stockpiles of Modern Russian Weapons in Lebanon: Israeli troops have been finding large troves of Russian weapons in Hezbollah’s possession, some manufactured as recently...

November 18, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: November 18, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Eliminates Hezbollah’s Chief Propagandist in Targeted Strike | In West Bank, Soldiers Seize Seven Lathes for Producing Weapons, 10 Illegal Vehicles, M16 Rifles | IDF’s 226th...

November 15, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Joe Truzman

Israel’s expanding efforts to disrupt Hezbollah’s supply chain

In recent years, Iran steadily built up Hezbollah’s arsenal in Lebanon and Syria by shipping weapons, flying them in, and transporting them by truck. Weapons consignments arrived at ports and...

October 22, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Lebanon’s Airport to Fund Terrorism; The World Must Respond

The Lebanese government has a choice to make — reclaim effective control of its main international airport from Hezbollah, or see that air hub destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces. As government ministers...

October 21, 2024 | |

Israel Strikes at Hezbollah’s Iran-Backed Banks in Lebanon

Hezbollah has stockpiled up to half a billion dollars in cash in a secret bunker under a Beirut hospital, Israel revealed on October 21. In a televised briefing, Israel Defense Forces...

September 18, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them

Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...

September 15, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Why isn’t Biden enforcing his own sanctions against Iran?

The Biden administration periodically promulgates new sanctions against Iran and its proxies. That is a sound policy. But sanctions without enforcement are easy to circumvent.  Case in point: Last...

August 30, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: August 30, 2024

Today’s Issue: | Israeli Forces Eliminate Wissam Hazem, Head of Hamas in Jenin | IDF Troops Kill Dozens of Terrorists in Rafah; IAF Strikes Some 30 Terror Targets | IDF Concludes Operation in Khan Younis...

August 29, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Hezbollah’s Beirut Airport Powder Keg

Lebanon could be setting itself up for a repeat of the disastrous 2020 Beirut explosion.

July 24, 2024 | Toby Dershowitz, Will Erens, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Why Hamas Deserves Argentina’s Terrorism Designation

At 7:56 AM on October 7, 2023, Ronit Sultan, the daughter of Argentine immigrants, texted her daughter-in-law to “take care of yourself” as rockets from Gaza flew overhead...

July 22, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: July 22, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Confirms Deaths of Hostages Alex Dancyg and Yagev Buchstab | After Attacks Against Israel From al-Mawasi Humanitarian Zone, IDF Calls for Temporary Evacuation | COGAT: ‘We Place...

July 19, 2024 | Toby Dershowitz, Emanuele Ottolenghi

The AMIA Bombing: Thirty Years Later

Victims of Iranian and Hezbollah terrorism in Argentina now have hope of bringing their perpetrators to justice.

July 19, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: July 19, 2024

Today’s Issue: | One Killed in Overnight Drone Strike on Tel Aviv, Houthis Claim Responsibility | IAF Strikes Hezbollah Military Building, Weapons Depots, Launcher Used to Attack Western Galilee...

July 18, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Killers of the AMIA Still Walk Free

On July 18, 1994, at 9:53 am, a Hezbollah suicide bomber, Ibrahim Berro, drove a car laden with explosives in front of the AMIA, the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and pressed the detonator, ripping...

July 13, 2024 | |

Argentina Becomes First Latin American State to Designate Hamas as Terrorist Organization

Argentina became the first state in Latin America to designate Hamas as a terrorist organization, in a move announced by President Javier Milei on July 12. A statement from the president’s...

July 3, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: July 3, 2024

Today’s Issue: | Reports from Lebanon: Israeli Airstrike Eliminates High-Ranking Hezbollah Commander | IDF Eliminates Four-Man Terror Cell in West Bank Drone Strike | COGAT: ‘Aid Is Piling Up in the...

July 2, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How Hezbollah Fundraises Through Crime

Hours after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, Hezbollah opened a second front against Israel on its northern border, re-igniting a conflict now at risk of escalating into a full-blown war. While...