In a speech for Quds Day last month, a top Iranian general said that an Islamic army was “awaiting orders to eradicate the evil regime,” referring to Israel, according to a translation of the entire speech published last week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). While English accounts...

Tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss events in southwestern Syria. Netanyahu has already released a statement in advance of the meeting declaring that Israel “will not tolerate the establishment of a military presence by Iran and its proxies anywhere in...

South Carolina became the first state to adopt a uniform definition of anti-Semitism, set to take effect next year, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Signed into law on July 6 as part of the next year’s budget legislation by Gov. Henry McMaster, the legislation requires universities to take the state’s...

A Malaysian agency that serves as  a sales agent for Iran’s Mahan Air was sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department for its support for Iranian terror, Reuters reported Monday. Mahan Air, which is officially a commercial airline, itself was sanctioned in 2011 by the U.S. Treasury Department for “providing financial, material...

A three-person emergency response team is being deployed today by Japan IsraAID Support Program (JISP), the Japanese branch of IsraAID: Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid, to the Okayama prefecture in western Japan where the heaviest rainfall in decades has caused flooding, landslides and loss of life. More than 95 fatalities...

During a meeting with Fatah party leaders on Sunday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that Palestinian terrorists and their families will continue to receive stipends and that Arab countries agree with him in opposing the United States peace plan, The Times of Israel reported. Abbas told Fatah that the Palestinian...

If declassified, a 2012 report on Palestinian refugees could force the Palestinian government to “govern, not merely stir up antagonism with Israel,” making peace in the Middle East more likely, two experts with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Wall Street Journal....

Both KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, and Austrian Airlines have announced that they are canceling flights to Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post. The announced cancellations, which are to take place in September, come at a time that the home countries of both airlines have ongoing diplomatic disputes with...

Several violent anti-Semitic attacks took place over the weekend in Berlin and Zurich, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Three Germans and six Syrians were taken into custody on Saturday for allegedly assaulting a Syrian Jew in a park in Berlin’s Mitte district. The 19-year-old victim, who was wearing a Star...

Upon entering the new natural history museum in Tel Aviv, visitors are greeted by a vivid re-enactment of the great avian migrations from Africa to Europe through northern Israel’s Hula Valley, complete with stuffed hawks, pelicans and vultures circling around the ceiling of the building’s entrance. The 100,000-square-foot Noah’s Ark-shaped...