The Middle East that President-elect Donald Trump will inherit when he assumes office in two months is, as a foreign policy advisor to the last two presidents told The New York Times last month, “seemingly in free fall.” Among the challenges that Trump will have deal with: wars in Syria,...

Netflix has bought the rights to Fauda, the hit Israeli television series focusing on an undercover counterterrorism unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. The global streaming site has said it will label the show a Netflix Original Series, marking the first time an Israeli series earns this title. The first...

The Histadrut, by far the largest labor union in Israel, on Sunday urged a counterpart union in Germany to abandon its bid to boycott Israel, saying that such actions would harm both Israeli and Palestinian workers, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. After learning that the Oldenburg chapter of the Education...

Israel was one of 27 countries to answer NATO’s recent call for an international search, rescue, and recovery exercise in Montenegro. The National Emergency Management Authority delegation from Israel included 24 people from the Ministry of Defense, the IDF Home Front Command, the Fire and Rescue Authority, and volunteers from...

The number of British people who believe that Israel is a “key ally” of the United Kingdom has grown in the last year, as has the number that oppose boycotts of the Jewish state, a new survey from the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre (BICOM) revealed. BICOM also found an increase in...

The global police agency Interpol has rejected the Palestinian Authority’s bid for membership, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Palestinians had sought a vote on membership during Interpol’s annual meeting this week in Bali, but 62 nations voted in a preliminary hearing against placing the proposal on the agenda. “Many others abstained,...