Recognition of Israeli innovation has become mainstream enough that even the United Nations – where anti-Israel member states are usually described as having an automatic majority – lets the Jewish state take the lead on the issue. Jerusalem oversees thriving computer technology and biotech industries. Israel’s start-up culture contributed to...

A controversial decision by E.U. foreign ministers to cut off projects with Israeli-Jewish communities beyond Israel’s 1948 armistice lines may face additional complications, as legal scholars are pointing to deep contradictions within E.U. practices. The guidelines regarding those communities have in recent weeks been blasted by top international figures –...

Boko Haram – a jihadist group whose name literally translates to “Western education is sinful” – is suspected of being behind the mass murder of at least 40 students in north-east Nigeria. The university-aged students were asleep in their dormitories when the massacre began: Islamist insurgents have shot dead at...

Responding last July to news that Turkey was planning to purchase air defense systems from China, a NATO official declared that the decision – if confirmed and implemented – “would certainly leave many of us speechless.” Last week Turkey announced that it was moving ahead with purchasing the FD-2000 missile...

At least 78 people were killed in a bombing outside of a Pakistani church Sunday, with the attack being only the latest in a cascade of anti-Christian violence that has rocked the Middle East and Africa in recent months. In Egypt, Islamist supporters of the country’s deposed former President Mohammed...

A group of European and global leaders – drawn from political, military, intellectual, and activist circles – are calling on European Union foreign ministers to reevaluate recently passed guidelines cutting off cooperation between European institutions and Israeli establishments beyond Israel’s 1948 armistice lines. A letter sent by the group (embedded...