The United States has no effective means of deterring Iran’s “tactic” of hostage-taking — a practice it has engaged in since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979 — Reuters assessed in a special report Wednesday. In 1979, “Iran took 52 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran,”...

Seven ISIS terrorists were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday just a couple of hundred meters away from the Israeli border on the Syrian-held Golan Heights, The Jerusalem Post reported. The terrorists came as close to 200 meters to the Israel-Syria frontier — situated between the Alpha line and...

Druze volunteer medic Ryan Amasha, 27, regularly visits an elderly man in his village of Usfiya, in Israel’s Carmel region. He checks the 80-year-old’s vital signs once a week, takes him out for coffee, and checks in by phone several times a week. Amasha’s connection with the elder was fostered...

Netflix will not release a documentary about the life of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, despite the Nation of Islam leader’s claim that it would air on the streaming platform on Wednesday, The Jerusalem Post reported. “This film will not be released on Netflix. Due to an internal miscommunication, it appeared to...

The United States Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, visited a fire station in the southern city of Sderot on Wednesday to see first-hand how firefighters are battling the ongoing blazes caused by incendiary airborne devices launched from the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported. Friedman thanked the firefighters for...

Russia’s envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, said on Wednesday that Iranian forces in Syria had retreated 85 kilometers from the border with Israel following efforts by the Jewish State to increase pressure on the Kremlin, Reuters reported. However, an Israeli official deemed the pullback insufficient. “The Iranians withdrew and the...

An Iranian-born writer and activist for women’s rights in her home country wrote that, forced by the regime, “my sister publicly disowned me on prime-time Iranian television,” in an op-ed published Tuesday in The New York Times. Masih Alinejad, a journalist and founder of the My Stealthy Freedom movement, which...

Three life-science giants — Medtronic, GE Healthcare and Change Healthcare – will expand their Israeli R&D centers over the next six years with the help of a ₪120 million ($33 million) grant from the Israel Innovation Authority and Ministry of Economy and Industry. “Expanding these R&D centers will help position...

U.S. lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would drastically reduce U.S. funding for the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, The Algemeiner reported Tuesday. The UNRWA Reform and Refugee Support Act (H.R. 6451) is “long-overdue, common-sense legislation,” Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado, the sponsor...

A Palestinian terrorist, who murdered a 31-year-old Israeli man in the West Bank community of Adam on Thursday, has been declared a “martyr” by the Palestinian Authority and is entitled to a one-time payment of $1,600, as well as monthly salaries starting at $380, under the PA’s “Pay to Slay...