Pope Francis will host a meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican next month, according to the Associated Press. SKY News suggested the Holy See may be thinking about taking over from the Americans as the broker of any Israeli-Palestinian talks. The offices...

Israel’s leaders from President Shimon Peres on down roundly condemned the May 24 slaying of three people outside a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, including an Israeli couple and a museum volunteer. President Peres called upon European leaders to take action against any form of anti-semitism and said, “We must act without hesitation...

Bloomberg’s Tel Aviv-based reporter Jonathan Ferziger this week conveyed assessments indicating that a recently inked unity deal between the Palestinian Fatah faction and the rival Hamas organization – which is aimed at paving the way for a single government agreed to by both sides – may trigger the financial collapse of the...

Reuters on Wednesday conveyed statements from Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, doubling down on his organization’s commitment to the eradication of Israel, especially and specifically in the context of an anticipated agreed government between Hamas and the rival Palestinian Fatah organization. Meshaal declared that Hamas had made...

The Vatican and Israel are close to a deal on several outstanding issues, The Tower has learned. The announcement of an agreement paving the way to even closer ties could come later this year, possibly as early as June. Among the outstanding discussion points is the status of what Catholics see as...

Yesterday the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement called for a boycott of billionaire investor and activist George Soros. The statement appearing at the BDS Movement website began: The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society that is leading the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement...