A Palestinian swimmer has an Olympic-sized pool in her hometown, contrary to claims in news reports that she had no regulation-sized pools to train in, Tablet reported Saturday. Media reports about Palestinian Olympic hopeful Mary al-Atrash indicated that in addition to the usual challenges facing Olympic athletes, al-Atrash also had to...

The allegations that the Gaza director of the charity World Vision siphoned tens of millions of dollars to the terrorist group Hamas represents a “profound betrayal of trust,” one of the United Nations’ top officials dealing with Palestinian affairs said in a statement Monday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced on...

Israeli researchers triumphed over 11 other international teams the 2016 Surgical Robotic Challenge in London with their robot for minimally invasive neurosurgery. The robot, intended for the removal of brain tumors of up to six centimeters (2.5 inches) in size, is operated through a small keyhole in the skull using laser...

The Knesset held a special session on Wednesday night to commemorate Ze’ev Jabotinsky—the intellectual father of the Israeli Right. And in paying respects, Israel’s leaders read their own characters into the early Zionist luminary, only months after recasting themselves in the role of Theodor Herzl in a similar session. Prime...

Top Israeli defense officials rejected on Friday President Barack Obama’s assertion that Israel’s security establishment now “acknowledges” that the nuclear deal with Iran “has been a game changer” and a benefit to the Jewish state’s security. “The Israeli security establishment believes that agreements only have value if they are based on existing reality and...

Fatah, the party headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, boasted on its Facebook page on Tuesday that it “has killed 11,000 Israelis.” The post also gives Fatah credit for having “sacrificed 170,000 martyrs” and noted that hundreds of its members are incarcerated in Israeli jails. “Israelis and Palestinians have long accused each other...