The U.S.S. Ross became the first United States Navy ship to dock at Israel’s port of Ashdod, underscoring the “deep alliance” between the U.S. and Israel, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Reuters reported Thursday. While U.S. Navy ships usually prefer to dock in Haifa, the choice of Ashdod “potentially...

A German professional house painter travels to Israel once or twice a year, where together with other professional German craftsmen, he renovates for free the apartments of Holocaust survivors. The heart-warming story was shared by Rabbi Zalmen Wishedsk on social media on Monday in a post that has since gone...

The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that Israeli conductor-composer Omer Meir Wellber, 36, has been appointed as the BBC Philharmonic’s new chief conductor. He is to take up the post in September 2019 and his initial contract is for four years. “I first worked with the BBC Philharmonic in March and knew...

Two supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign disrupted the showing of a Holocaust movie in Berlin, holding up a banner bearing their message in front of the screen, Benjamin Weinthal reported on Wednesday for The Jerusalem Post. The crowd booed as the two activists were removed from the...

In a sign of warming ties between Israel and Arab states, the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States shared a table with his Israeli counterpart at a public pro-Israel event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. The two officials sat next to each other at the...

The Trump administration in September ordered the closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C., citing the refusal of Palestinian leaders to enter into peace talks with Israel. In an interview with J.J. Green of Target USA: the National Security Podcast, Kenneth Bricker, a spokesman for The Israel Project,...