The Dutch parliament passed a non-binding motion to end government funding for organizations that call for a boycott of Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Thursday. The motion was co-signed by three lawmakers, one of whom is a prominent member of the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the Netherlands’ largest party....

Ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to Sub-Saharan Africa next month, Ethiopia’s ambassador to Israel expressed support for the Jewish state and its expanding ties on the African continent, The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. Helawe Yosef Mengistu told the Post that African countries are turning to Israel for help in combating...

In the wake of a debunked claim last week that Israel had cut off water supplies to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry claimed that a rabbi authorized Jews to poison wells belonging to Palestinians, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. In a statement, the PA’s Foreign Ministry cited a...

An Israeli minister is advocating for the construction of an artificial island off the coast of the Gaza Strip in order to facilitate the import of goods to the territory, the Associated Press reported Monday. Yisrael Katz, Israel’s transportation minister and one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top deputies, told reporters that he...

Obama administration officials concluded that particles of uranium found at Iran’s Parchin military base and revealed in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s final report on the country’s past nuclear activities were likely tied to the regime’s nuclear weapons program, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Sunday. The admission further underscores concerns that the IAEA’s investigation...

Several major automakers are teaming up with an Israeli assisted-driving developer to beat Google to releasing driverless cars, Forbes reported Wednesday. General Motors will be the first to integrate semiconductor chips from Mobileye that can map road condition in real-time into its vehicles, followed by Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan in 2018. The amount of data provided...