MidEast

An award-winning reporter who first revealed that three Jewish women were ejected from the Dyke March in Chicago last month for carrying LGBT flags adorned with the Star of David has been reassigned to non-journalistic duties at The Windy City Times, the paper which published the original story, Ben Cohen reported for The...

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New details have emerged about underground weapons factories that Iran is building for its proxy group Hezbollah in Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The existence of the factories was first reported in March by a Kuwaiti newspaper quoting an unnamed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general. Last...

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A week after the Palestinian terrorist group endorsed the boycott campaign against Israel, its officials convened for a meeting where Israeli-made refreshments were served. A picture of their meeting was tweeted by Israel’s coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT) with the caption, “A week after endorsing BDS, Hamas officials...

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Political newcomer Avi Gabbay has been elected to lead Israel’s opposition Labor party after winning Monday’s vote. He won 52 percent of the vote to beat Amir Peretz, a former party leader and defense minister. Addressing his supporters after his election, Gabbay said, “To anyone who doubted the vitality of...

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In a risky and delicate procedure performed for the first time in Israel this week, an interdisciplinary team of Hadassah Medical Center physicians fixed a severe heart defect in a 28-week-old fetus in the womb. The medical team widened the baby’s aorta using a balloon technique similar to adult catheterization....

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The lead singer of the popular British rock group Radiohead, which is slated to perform in Israel next week, raised his middle finger at anti-Israel protesters who were disrupting the band’s Glasgow concert on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, which seeks to...

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