A Democratic Party activist argued that the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act currently being considered by the United States Senate, “should hardly be controversial” because it “simply extends existing U.S. law” against foreign boycotts of Israel, in an analysis published Thursday in the Huffington Post. Steven Sheffey, a blogger for the National Jewish...

An Iranian blogger, whose extradition was sought by Iran because she wrote for an Israeli publication, arrived in Israel from Turkey on Thursday. Appearing with editor-in-chief David Horovitz at The Times of Israel’s Jerusalem office, the publication she wrote for, Neda Amin told reporters, “I am safe now,” because no...

Bloomberg reported Thursday that natural gas could be shipped from Israel to Egypt, via Jordan, in a deal being negotiated between Egyptian energy giant Dolphinius Holdings, Israel’s Delek, and US company Noble Energy. Alla Arafa, co-founder of Dolpinius Holdings, told Bloomberg, “There is great potential for the Mediterranean to be a...

This July was a month full of depressing news regarding diplomacy among Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. And yet, far from the headlines, cooperation across these populations was thriving at the Galilee International Management Institute (GIMI) in Nahalal, a city in northern Israel. During July alone, GIMI gave a...

While saying that she marched for many of the stated goals of January’s Women’s March, a former Clinton adviser wrote that “I did not march to show support for hateful, divisive language” that has since been used in the march’s name, in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Washington Jewish...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has received thousands of messages from Iraq in support of Israel in the wake of the Temple Mount crisis triggered by a terrorist attack, with Iraqis saying they “recognize the State of Israel” and reject Palestinian terrorism. Reactions include criticism of “the hypocrisy of the Arab peoples,”...