In mid-May, a small strip of the Mediterranean coast was transformed into an arena of coexistence and fun as the Israeli martial-arts nonprofit organization Budo for Peace hosted its second annual International Martial Arts Friendship Training. Martial-arts experts from Jordan, Japan and Senegal joined the gathering of Israeli Jews, Muslims,...

With concern rising after a string of terror attacks, airport representatives from 40 countries will visit Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport next month to learn about Ben-Gurion’s innovative security procedures. Ben-Gurion is one of the world’s safest airports—no flight departing Israel has ever been hijacked, and there hasn’t been a terrorist attack at Ben-Gurion since 1972. The...

Iran has given messaging apps one year to move its storage of user data inside the country, raising concerns that Iranians using the apps could have their data accessed by the government. Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, whose members are appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a directive on Sunday warning that...

The election last week of 89-year-old Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati to head Iran’s Assembly of Experts, which will choose the country’s next Supreme Leader to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows that “whoever follows the increasingly frail Mr. Khamenei as Supreme Leader is unlikely to alter the regime’s core anti-Western philosophy,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote (Google link) Monday. Jannati...

An Argentinian court will allow a recording of former Foreign Minister Hector Timerman acknowledging that Iran was behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires to be admitted as evidence in an inquiry to determine if he is guilty of treason, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported...

More than 30 students were lashed 99 times each after they were arrested for dancing at a graduation celebration attended by members of the opposite gender in the Iranian city of Qazvin, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing Iranian media. The arrests and punishments, which took place in a 24-hour span, were part of a...