With the weather warming and the anemones in full bloom, talk has turned once more to the possibility of a summer war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. While renewed hostilities only three years after the last round are seen by some as inevitable, there are still many...

Working together is the name of the game in a project now underway in Israeli, Palestinian Authority and Jordanian communities. The joint project, Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), aims to train local residents as first responders in case of an earthquake. “The project is funded by the Peace Partnership of...

The Israel Defense Forces this week carried out its largest exercise in five years in the West Bank ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The four-day drill consisted of simulating “a variety of scenarios and emergency situations such as settlement infiltrations, abductions of Israeli citizens, bombings, vehicular or shooting attacks, and...

Israel’s High Court on Wednesday stayed the order to empty an ammonia storage tank in Haifa, which has been the target of threats by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah, Bloomberg News reported. The Haifa District Court initially mandated the tank be closed by Saturday following a municipal report raising fears that it...

Former bankruptcy attorney David Friedman was sworn in on Wednesday as America’s new ambassador to Israel, with Vice President Mike Pence administering the oath of office and calling Israel “our most cherished ally.” Before the swearing-in ceremony, Pence said that Friedman was “born for this job,” adding that “it is because of...

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Wednesday praised a film documenting the harrowing tribulations of two Holocaust survivors as “a journey toward truth.” Speaking at the Ambassadors Against BDS event at the UN, Haley contrasted the film, created by Sara Greenberg, with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign...