Documents found in the garbage of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s apartment show that he had intended to ask a judge to arrest Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, according to a report (Spanish link) yesterday in Clarin, a Spanish-language newspaper in Argentina. Nisman died of a gunshot...

Within 24 hours of the severe earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a 220-person team of rescuers, disaster-management experts and medical personnel. Many Israeli governmental and non-governmental organizations joined in the difficult work of treating physical and psychological wounds and getting the island...

An Iran-backed Shiite Iraqi militia showed off a captured American tank in a recent video, Bill Riggio and Caleb Weiss reported today at The Long War Journal. A video uploaded to YouTube appears to show a large Hezbollah Brigades convoy transporting weapons, troops, and armored vehicles to the front to...

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, a BBC show called The Big Question, which purports to deal with moral questions, asked on Sunday “Is the time coming to lay the Holocaust to rest?” Some of the panelists rejected the question. The Times of Israel reports: Rabbi Yaakov Wise countered that the...

Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer highlighted Israel’s role as refuge for every Jew in a speech delivered Sunday. Dermer noted that possibly as much as 3% of France’s Jewish population could move to Israel in 2015 and asked rhetorically, “Despite all the concerns regarding the future of...

A group of Senate Democrats led by Senator Robert Menendez (D – N.J.) effectively gave the Obama administration a deadline to achieve an agreement that would prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. In a letter to the White House, the senators expressed support for legislation that would toughen diplomacy against Iran if the Islamic...