A mortar shell was fired from Syria into the Israeli Golan Heights on Wednesday evening, 10 miles from a town where the Israeli prime minister was visiting. In a speech on Wednesday in Katzrin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We are here celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Katzrin, the capital...

Coral reefs are dying on a massive scale around the world, driven by climate change. The planet’s largest reef, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, has only a third of its 2,300-kilometer ecosystem left unscathed by bleaching, which happens when colored algae are ejected by the coral and their normal symbiosis breaks...

A Syrian opposition website claimed on Wednesday that President Bashar al-Assad recently visited an Iranian-run chemical weapons and missile production facility, The Times of Israel reported. The website, Zaman al-Wasl, cited a source reportedly with close ties to the White House who said that the U.S. administration is aware of plans...

Iran is not shy about its aim of spreading influence abroad, nor its apparent success with establishing a “visible presence … just a stone’s throw from Israel,” The Jerusalem Post’s Seth J. Frantzman reported Wednesday. Just meters from the fence that separates Israel and Lebanon, where the Israeli community of...

A United States aircraft carrier is slated to dock in an Israeli port for the first time in 17 years on Saturday. The USS George H. W. Bush, named for the World War II naval aviator and 41st U.S. president, is scheduled to arrive in Haifa for a four day stopover...

Organizers of the Chicago Dyke March on Tuesday defended their decision to eject three participants who displayed Jewish symbols by claiming that “Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.” The group’s official statement also included screenshots of a chat between an organizer and Laurel Grauer, one of the marchers targeted for holding a rainbow LGBT flag emblazoned...