A famous Parisian chef who plans on attending an international culinary festival in Israel pushed back against anti-Israel activists on social media, calling them “misinformed,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. Stéphane Jégo, head chef of Chez L’Ami Jean in Paris, wrote on Twitter that activists who attempted to dissuade him...

McGill University’s student newspaper has come under fire after announcing that it no longer publishes articles that “promote a Zionist worldview,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. The policy was communicated in a statement made in response to a complaint about the paper’s coverage of anti-Semitism. “Upon reviewing this complaint, we found...

The Palestinian Authority’s payments of salaries to convicted terrorists or their surviving family members constitutes a violation of the Oslo Accords, a former Israeli general wrote this week in a research paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic...

A member of the legendary punk rock band The Stranglers called Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters “pretty ignorant” about the situation in Israel during an interview on Wednesday. J. J. Burnel, bassist for the British band, was asked about his decision to play in Israel despite objections from boycott advocates, as well as...

With seven more U.S. states voting to legalize forms of medical or recreational marijuana use on November 8, the upcoming rollout of Leaf’s “plug-n-plant” system for growing the crop at home couldn’t have been better timed. “It’s an exciting time to launch,” CEO Jonathan Ofir tells ISRAEL21c. “We’re seeing a...

An Israeli tech billionaire who founded one of the country’s most successful startups is creating a fund to invest in Israeli healthcare startups. Marius Nacht, the co-founder of computer security firm Check Point Software, is raising $100 million for the fund. Nacht has previously invested millions of his own funds into...