The brutal killing last week of American-Israeli teenager Hallel Yaffa Ariel has yet again raised the issue of how the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists encourage the murder of Israelis, Eli Lake wrote for Bloomberg View on Friday. Lake noted that although the recent joint report on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by the...

A new law preventing the state of Illinois from doing business with entities that boycott Israel has just exposed a major failure of the BDS campaign, Northwestern University Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich explained in Tablet on Thursday. The announcement by global security firm G4S a few months ago that it was selling its...

On July 4, 1976 – 40 years ago today – Israeli commandos carried out a daring raid to rescue over 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages held by Palestinian and German terrorists at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. A week earlier, two terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became an outspoken champion for human rights and Israel, died Saturday in Manhattan at the age of 87. Born to Sarah and Shlomo Wiesel on September 30, 1928, Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel grew up in the town of Sighet, Transylvania,...

Activists who target Israel with boycotts do so because they have a “vision of a world without Israel,” renowned Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi wrote in an op-ed Wednesday in The Los Angeles Times. Klein Halevi, a National Jewish Book Award winner for his nonfiction book Like Dreamers, denounced the anti-Israel boycott campaign (commonly known as...

Israel will reduce its scheduled payments to the Palestinian Authority by the amount that the PA admits spending on paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday. Israel believes that encouragement of terrorism by the Pal. leadership, in form of incitement and payments constitutes incentive for murder. —...