International fashion designers ignored demands to shun Israel, flocking this week to the Holon Fashion Week 2012 (HoF12), which will take place October 15 – 20. The event will feature a two-day conference and various exhibitions and events at the Design Museum in Holon. “On Clothes and Cities” will include...

Reacting to the recent escalation in rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip, which included several salvos over the weekend, the Israeli Defense Forces have ordered all Israelis in rocket range to remain within 15 seconds of bomb shelters. The rocket fire comes from a mix of Al Qaeda-linked...

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, will reconvene Monday (Oct. 15) for the start of the fall session, where it is expected to vote immediately to dissolve itself. The move will set Israel on a path to elections scheduled for January 22, 2013 – some four years after the last ballot. In...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora lashed out against Hezbollah on Sunday, blasting the Iranian-backed organization for trying to drag Lebanon into another war with Israel. Siniora critized Hezbollah for dispatching a drone to penetrate Israeli airspace “at an Iranian behest.” The still-developing controversy threatens to become a replay of...

In the last few hours, the EU voted to increase sanctions on Iran aimed at convincing the regime to increase transparency on – and then halt – what is widely believed to be an illicit nuclear weapons program. Diplomats speaking in the lead-up to the EU vote identified the sanctions...

Iran lashed out at the United Arab Emirates Tuesday over three disputed islands, marking an increasingly heated escalation in a war of words that has been growing between the two countries since the spring. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast threatened to downgrade ties with the UAE over competing claims to the...

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi extended his battle against Egyptian institutions, attempting to oust Egypt’s Prosecutor General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud. The prosecutor general, who is refusing to resign, is under fire for acquittals in a case of brutality linked to the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled the Mubarak regime. Morsi’s actions...

Hezbollah claimed responsibility yesterday for the unmanned aircraft shot down over Israel last weekend, with the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah boasting on Hezbollah TV that he was trying to “surprise the Zionist enemy.” He also vowed that the group would launch more drones in the future. An Iranian proxy that Lebanese opposition figures...

While sparring over an array of issues, Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan converged on the critical importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship to American interests and on the need to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The candidates’ stances, while differing sometimes sharply in claims and analyses, reflecting a...

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor harshly criticized the U.N. yesterday over the Security Council’s failure to condemn Hamas’s escalating rocket fire campaign. The decision contrasted with the UNSC’s prompt condemnation of the Syrian rockets that recently struck Turkey. Prosor’s criticism echoes similar comments made by the ambassador last February, when...