The New York Times reported yesterday that, during his brief trip to Israel, Pope Francis made an unprecedented stop and laid a wreath at the tomb of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl. On Mount Herzl, after the Pope visited a memorial to victims of terror, including those killed...

The Wall Street Journal revealed on Friday that the United States is considering reopening a bilateral diplomatic channel with Iran – through which negotiations would be conducted by what the outlet described as a “secret” team: The White House secretly used this bilateral track last year to reach an interim...

A Turkish court acceded to the request of prosecutors and issued arrest warrants May 26 in the names of four leading Israelis for their alleged role in the 2010 Mavi Marmara episode. The demand for the arrests flies in the face of media reports and comments from Turkish leaders that...

A day after Pope Francis touched the Palestinian side of Israel’s security fence, with his aides calling for all walls to be torn down, the pontiff paid a visit to the Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. Francis deviated from his whirlwind itinerary to visit a...

Pope Francis will host a meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican next month, according to the Associated Press. SKY News suggested the Holy See may be thinking about taking over from the Americans as the broker of any Israeli-Palestinian talks. The offices...

Israel’s leaders from President Shimon Peres on down roundly condemned the May 24 slaying of three people outside a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, including an Israeli couple and a museum volunteer. President Peres called upon European leaders to take action against any form of anti-semitism and said, “We must act without hesitation...