The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an organization with an established record of anti-Israel bias, is poised next week to condemn the Jewish state for its conduct during last year’s Operation Protective Edge, noted an op-ed published Friday in The Boston Herald by Jeff Robbins, a former UNHRC delegate....

A delegations of 100 German business leaders is slated to visit Israel later this month, Israel Hayom reported Thursday. While many in Europe are calling for a boycott of Israel, a delegation of 100 German industry leaders is preparing for a trip to Israel to meet with top businesspeople in...

Israel relaxed security restrictions to allow thousands of Palestinians to observe the first Friday services of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera reported Friday. Police said at least 80,000 people from East Jerusalem, Israel and the West Bank had gone to Islam’s third-holiest site, for Friday prayers,...

The Obama administration’s response to the new book by former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren is part of an opportunistic effort “to portray itself as a loyal friend to Israel,” Jonathan Tobin wrote Thursday in Commentary. The motives for these denunciations are obvious. The president knows that the truth about his hostility...

The U.S. government’s internal monitoring organization has determined that the State Department is three years late in applying certain sanctions to Iran, Al-Monitor reported Wednesday. The report raises questions over whether the State Department is intentionally delaying sanctions on Iran as negotiations over its nuclear program continue. The report (.pdf), issued by the Government Accountability...

A 25-year-old man was killed and a second man wounded in a terror attack near Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported today. The 25-year-old was shot in the upper body near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem. He was found unconscious and...