Honeybees across the world are in a sticky situation. Their numbers are dwindling dramatically due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) for reasons that are not fully understood. Yet the honeybee population in Israel is holding steady. That’s great news at this time of year, when sweet Jewish New Year dishes...

Iraqi Kurds held a memorial service for former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday, hours after the veteran statesman passed away at the age of 93, according to various Kurdish news sources. Kurds in the Duhok region, which is north of Mosul in Iraq, reportedly held a half hour service in honor...

Recent Palestinian-led efforts to boot Israel out of FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, “contradict longstanding FIFA practice and create a double standard for Israel,” a leading legal expert wrote in The Washington Post Monday. Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at Northwestern University and head of the Kohelet Policy Forum’s international...

World leaders across the globe continue to pay tribute to former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres, who passed away early Wednesday at the age of 93. President Barack Obama described “my friend Shimon” as one of the “few people who we share this world with who change the course of human...

Shimon Peres symbolized possibility. He embodied the daring idea that the impossible could be made possible. It wasn’t blind faith that led him on this path. It was experience. In his life he witnessed time and again how ideas and dreams, previously deemed insane, became taken-for-granted reality. Primarily among these...

The Israel Project Mourns the Passing of Shimon Peres The Israel Project (TIP) today deeply mourns the passing of Shimon Peres. The last of Israel’s founding fathers, Peres contributed decisively to Israel’s security in its vulnerable early years, became its leading voice for peace later on, and ultimately served as...