Israel informed American authorities of an Iranian airline’s efforts to buy Airbus jets, in violation of American sanctions, but the U.S. didn’t prevent the purchase, Reuters reported today. “Israel learned from intelligence sources about this very significant breach of the sanctions in advance of it occurring,” the Israeli official, speaking on condition...

Thousands of Gazans receive treatment in Israeli hospitals every year, the Associated Press (AP) reported yesterday. According to the report, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit (COGAT) has issued roughly 27,000 permits for Gaza residents—including both patients and their families—to receive medical treatment in Israel and elsewhere. According to the...

It was with deep sadness that I learned last night of the passing of my dear friend and teacher, Professor Robert Wistrich, at the age of 70. Robert was the world’s foremost scholar of anti-Semitism. Based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he headed the Vidal Sassoon International Center for...

After a unanimous vote Monday by the Illinois House of Representatives to pass a bill prohibiting the state from investing its pension funds in companies that boycott Israel, Prof. Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern University wrote in an analysis for The Washington Post that the significance of the bill’s passage “cannot be underestimated.” European countries have in...

Hackers use “spear phishing” to acquire usernames, passwords and credit-card details. They target specific individuals within an organization, using information available on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, or stolen from an acquaintance of the target, to create messages that appear real. The answer to the spear phishing scourge,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, for opposing the Palestinian move to suspend Israel from the organization, The Times of Israel reported today. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday met with FIFA President Sepp Blatter, praising the soccer chief for opposing a Palestinian...