In an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday, David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, disputed the idea that the only alternative of the deal being negotiated with Iran was a war. The relevant segment of the interview is embedded below. When Mitchell asked...

Members of the Israel-based Zaka rescue organization will fly to France to assist in the recovery efforts of those killed in last week’s plane crash, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported today: The eight volunteers from the ZAKA International Rescue Unit are scheduled to leave early Monday morning to assist in the search...

Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa … Arad? If this southern Israeli city doesn’t come to mind when you think about touring Israel, Anna Sandler is working hard to put it there. Sandler is the tourist coordinator for this 52-year-old city bordering the Negev and Judean deserts. Its proximity to the Dead...

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and BlueStar Indexes issued a new stock index, a “Start-up Nation Index,” called TA -BIGITech, that will track Israeli tech stocks, regardless of which stock exchange they are listed on, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “As you know, there aren’t that many Israeli tech stocks on...

Iran’s nuclear program is vulnerable to both military attack and economic pressure, Middle East expert Lee Smith argued in an essay that appears in the current issue of The Weekly Standard. While Smith acknowledged that “you can’t bomb knowledge,” or, in other words, make Iranian nuclear scientists forget their technical...