The dramatic arrest in Nigeria this month of three Hezbollah operatives was enabled by close cooperation between Nigerian security officials and Israel’s Mossad and Aman intelligence services, respectively the Jewish state’s external and military intelligence agencies. Nigeria’s secret service said Thursday it had discovered a cache of weapons belonging to...

Speaking to Sen. Robert Menendez during Menendez’s visit to Israel earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the Foreign Relations Committee chair for helping to secure last week’s unanimous Senate vote calling for the U.S. to support Israel if Israel needs to act in self-defense against the Iranian...

Germany’s Green Party is being blasted by anti-Semitism and NGO watchdog groups over its decision to appoint a Bundestag deputy who has expressed support for boycotting Israel to head the party’s Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Tel Aviv: “So long as Ms. Müller demands the labeling of goods from only...

The prestigious Franz Kafka Prize, selected by an international jury from a shortlist of 12 globally recognized writers, will be awarded later this year to acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz. Oz is one of the leading writers in Israel today, known not only for his expansive authorship, but also outspoken political...

The second biennial Jerusalem Innovative Tourism Summit kicked off Tuesday, bringing international industry leaders to a parley that organizers promise will showcase groundbreaking technologies in a fast-changing industry. Marquee speakers at this year’s two-day event include Michael Arad – the Israeli-American architect who designed the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center –...

A week after an Al Qaeda-linked Somali terror organization urged its followers to conduct operations similar to the Hamas kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, a Hamas spokesman reaffirmed his organization’s embrace of the tactic that it pioneered. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – whose Fatah faction rivals Hamas – had...