After two years of leaving the post empty, the Trump administration has selected Los Angeles prosecutor Elan Carr as the State Department’s new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, JTA reported Monday. Carr, a Jewish-American army veteran who served in Iraq, is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He also...

Excerpted and adapted from the introduction to What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Post Hill Press). In June 2014, a jihadist group linked to Al Qaeda conquered large tracts of Syria and Iraq. After this swift rise to power, which took the world by surprise, the group declared...

Hezbollah supporters rode their motorcycles near the border with Israel, in a show of defiance against the Jewish State, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The demonstration prompted the IDF to declare that Hezbollah was “making a mockery” of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and the...

Pope Francis arrived Sunday in the United Arab Emirates for the first-ever visit by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula, The Times of Israel reported. This comes at a critical time, as the country is stepping up its interfaith efforts with the non-Muslim world. The Pope landed in Abu Dhabi,...

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro thanked Israel’s “brave troops” on Thursday for providing emergency relief to the victims of a recent dam collapse that killed at least 99 people and left hundreds missing, The Algemeiner reported. A 130-strong Israeli team landed in Brazil on Sunday to assist Brazilian authorities in search...

The United Kingdom, France, and Germany said that they are prepared to announce the launch of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), an arrangement that will allow them to trade with Iran and protect European companies from the effects of United States sanctions, the Associated Press reported. The SPV would set up...