The Mensch will not be advancing to the third round. Team Israel’s improbable run in the World Baseball Classic came to a disappointing end on Wednesday in Tokyo after it lost to Team Japan 8-3. The biggest bright spot of the game for Team Israel was pitcher Josh Zeid’s four...

There are already subtle, and not so subtle, indications that Israel may be heading for early elections. Of all the issues surrounding Israel at the moment—Iran, Syria, Russia, the Palestinians, and, of course, Trump—the looming battle over the next government holds the greatest potential for major change. As recently as...

Researchers from the Technion and Harvard are offering a new theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops that could change the way the neurological disease is treated. Associate Professor Simone Engelender of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and her colleague Ole Isacson at Harvard Medical School say the toxic protein behind...

Iran established underground weapon-making factories in Lebanon to help Hezbollah internally develop its arsenal, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Monday. The al-Jarida newspaper reported that a deputy head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has disclosed the existence of the underground facilities, which have been operating for the past three months. The factories can...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for five hours on Monday with Jason Greenblatt, a lawyer who was appointed chief negotiator for international affairs by President Donald Trump. According to a statement from the prime minister’s office, Netanyahu expressed his interest in working with the Trump administration to “advance a...

An Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militia announced the creation of a “Golan Liberation Brigade” this week, Amir Toumaj reported in the Long War Journal. Called Harakat al-Nujaba (Movement of the Noble), the militia is an offshoot of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq and Kata’ib Hezbollah, which have received financing, weapons, and training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...