Israeli volunteers have joined the rescue efforts in Japan and Ecuador following devastating earthquakes that have resulted in hundreds of deaths and widespread damage throughout both countries. The Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID says that its delegation in southern Japan is helping to distribute much-needed supplies in the affected communities....

Israeli authorities have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for a blast in southeast Jerusalem that injured 21 people on Monday, Haaretz reported. The explosion tore through a bus in the city’s Talpiot neighborhood at about 5:45 PM, engulfing it and a nearby bus and car in flames. “Based on a professional investigation by police demolitions...

A Republican and a Democrat from the House Armed Services Committee introduced a resolution on Monday calling on the Obama administration to continue the twenty-plus-year American policy of vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolution that unilaterally tries to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict instead of encouraging bilateral negotiations. The resolution,...

The head of Iran’s elite Quds Force visited Russia on Thursday in defiance of the international travel ban imposed on him. This is the third time that Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani violated the ban, having visited Moscow in July and September of last year as well. He reportedly arrived on a private...

The Israeli military has uncovered a tunnel built by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas that breaches into Israeli territory, Haaretz reported on Monday. It is the first such tunnel discovered inside Israel since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, when the Israel Defense Forces destroyed over 30 Hamas tunnels, 14 of which extended into Israel. The tunnel was...

The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will “[break] up under its own terms,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Valiollah Seif made his remarks in a 90-minute presentation in Washington, which this week...