In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who was tapped last year by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to head peace talks for Jerusalem, and who during the most recent negotiations with the Palestinians was a key figure in laying the groundwork for Secretary...

June 26, 2014 marked the first anniversary of when the Market Vectors Israel Exchange Traded Fund (or ETF) started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. According to the NASDAQ website, an ETF is a fund that tracks a stock index. The Market Vector Israel ETF (NYSE: ISRA) is based on BlueStar...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the Palestinian Authority’s continued granting of substantial monthly salaries and grants upon the release of incarcerated terrorists. These monthly salaries range from $3,500 to $25,000. The terrorists’ salaries and grants are determined by the number of years that they spent in an Israeli prison for their...

The Times of Israel on Monday reported that Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, born Ronald Jay Blumenthal, played Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, after being asked asked by a fan backstage. Citing a blogger, Darren Garnick, who had been invited backstage with a group of other fans by Thal last week, The Times tells...

As Israel carries on its search for kidnapped teenagers Gil-ad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Fraenkel, Israeli doctors of Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) continue to save the lives of Palestinian children at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Since the beginning of Operation Brother’s Keeper, five Palestinian children have...

Tuesday, The New York Times profiled a Bedouin IDF tracker, Maj. Mohammed Mazarib, and his role in the search for Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. The Times described the skills of a tracker: They are like a forensics unit, in nature. An intact spider web means no one has crossed....