Analysis to the effect that political responsibility over the Gaza Strip would moderate the Iran-backed Islamist terror group Hamas — a mainstay of certain strains of foreign policy reasoning — were undermined this week when the group sought to enforce gender segregation on boys and girls starting in grade four....

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah II have signed an agreement pledging to cooperate on protecting Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. The agreement will be read against a series of moves by Abbas to implicitly and explicitly declare that Israel is endangering Muslim holy sites in...

An internationally funded NGO founded and chaired by prominent Palestinian legislator and media personality Hanan Ashrawi is struggling to regain its credibility after accusing Jews of using the blood of Christians as part of Passover rituals, then defending the blood libel, then removing the accusation, and now finally apologizing. In...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan risks destabilizing the region and alienating the United States as he scrambles to deal with “hardline domestic criticism” in the aftermath of having been diplomatically out-maneuvered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in settling on terms for restoring ties between Israel and Turkey. At...

The Israeli army has completed the installation of a field hospital set up on the Israeli-Syrian border to treat injured Syrians. The humanitarian gesture comes at the risk of encouraging further efforts by Syrians to cross into Israel: Ben-Dror Yemini writes that, now that the word is out that Israel...

New census figures released today in Israel show that the Jewish state has taken its place, for the first time in modern history, as the country with the country with the largest share of global Jewry. The United States came in second with approximately 5.5 million Jews, followed by France...