French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has claimed that if the Jews leave France, France “will be judged a failure.” Valls made those remarks in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic on Saturday. The choice was made by the French Revolution in 1789 to recognize Jews as full citizens,” Valls told me....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday was among the fifty-six world leaders who joined an estimated 3.7 million people in the largest gathering in French history in a show of unity in the aftermath of last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left seventeen people dead. Bloomberg News reports: Thousands of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett will fly to France tomorrow to attend a rally in memory of the seventeen victims of terror last week in Paris. On Wednesday, 12 people were killed in a terror attack targeting satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo....

Five new Israeli-US academic projects in a variety of fields were recently given the go-ahead for joint collaboration between faculty and research scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The joint research proposals are to focus on self-sustained agriculture, spinal cord...

A bill introduced in Congress on Tuesday threatens to cut off U.S. financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until Ramallah withdraws a bid announced in late December to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). The legislation, introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), stipulates that no money be given to the PA “until the...

On Monday, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Madani, paid a rare visit to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, announcing what he termed an “Islamic Tourism Year” in the holy city. Madani is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, whose government does not have formal diplomatic relations with...