More than ten thousand Gaza teenagers graduated this week from a terrorist training program given by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a paramilitary group run by the terrorist organization Hamas. Under a program named “Pioneers of the Resistance,” the Palestinian youths – aged 15 to 21 – underwent intensive military...

Norway’s largest charitable organization, the Olav Thon Foundation, has announced that its first international research award in medical and natural sciences will go to Prof. Yosef Shiloh of Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Prof. Judith Campisi of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in California. The two scientists will split the prize...

Iranian troops are testing a missile designed in 2012 that could potentially hamper Israeli efforts to fight Hezbollah in the future, Armin Rosen of Business Insider reported Wednesday. The Dehlaviyeh’s actual capabilities haven’t been proven on the battlefield yet. Iran has a history of over-hyping its weapons advances, most notoriously...

Iranian intransigence is the primary obstacle to a deal over its nuclear program, according to an analysis written Tuesday in The National Interest by Emily Landau, a non-proliferation expert for Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. [I]f the P5+1–Iran negotiations break down, it will be because of Iran, the dangerous and defiant proliferator...

A bipartisan group of members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the State Department to revoke economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in response to the PA’s decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). The PA signed the ICC’s founding treaty,...

An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday night condemned the death earlier that day of a Spanish peacekeeper in the Golan Heights, but failed to address the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s rocket attack on an IDF convoy, killing two Israeli soldiers and wounding seven more. Before the meeting, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations...