Israel

A single mother in Ashkelon brought her child to the local branch of Krembo Wings, a unique Israeli youth movement run by kids for kids with special needs. But unlike the other parents, she didn’t leave after dropping off her daughter. “I asked her, ‘Why are you still here? Go...

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Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor of Islamic State captivity and UN goodwill ambassador, visited the Israeli Knesset on Monday to raise awareness for the plight of her people and explain how it relates to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. “My visit here today is to ask you to recognize the genocide being...

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In a Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis in California, an imam called on Allah to “liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews” and to “annihilate them down to the very last one.” His sermon was translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Imam Ammar...

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Israel has dismantled the metal detectors outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, following more than a week of unrest. Work crews were spotted in the early hours of Tuesday morning removing the metal detectors at one entrance and by dawn they had all been removed, according to Muslim officials. The...

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The metal detectors have come down. Since this was never about metal detectors, it comes as no surprise that tensions did not immediately subside. In their initial reaction to the Israeli measures, Muslim leaders instructed worshipers to continue to stay away from the Temple Mount. The Waqf, the Islamic Trust...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his Georgian counterpart, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, to Jerusalem on Monday, saying their countries are “are kindred souls living in a very difficult part of the world … that show a big future.” While 2017 marked 25 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations, Netanyahu remarked that...

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