Campus chapters of J Street, an organization that calls itself “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” have worked with the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, an investigative report by Noah Pollak, published Monday in the Washington Free Beacon, showed. Though Catie Stewart, deputy director of J Street U, boasted recently that J Street “does not...

The Israeli security service Shin Bet foiled a “number of significant terror attacks,” including a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Shin Bet arrested Muhammad Jamal Rashdeh who is a 30-year-old Israeli-Arab man and two suspected accomplices. The security...

Israel is sending emergency aid money to Guatemala after a devastating volcanic eruption that killed at least 25, injured hundreds, and left cities in the region covered in ash. In a statement today, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that it was sending $10,000 to Guatemala through its embassy there, for emergency...

The main United States umbrella organization promoting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has financial ties to Middle East terrorist organizations, an investigative article published Friday in Tablet magazine charged. The article written by Armin Rosen and Liel Leibovitz showed that the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a...

At a press conference following a 90-minute meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany “will exert our influence in such a way that Iran is pushed out of this region,” The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Though the two leaders still differ on the...

An Argentine federal appeals court ruled that Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered as a “direct consequence” of his accusations of former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the AMIA terror attack, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. Nisman was investigating the ties between Tehran and the...

Fires started by Hamas-led rioters flying kite carrying fire bombs have consumed nearly 17,500 dunams — 7 square miles — of land and caused an estimated $1.4 million worth of damage to fields and forests in southern Israel, The Times of Israel reported Monday. For several weeks rioters have been attaching...

Following a trip to Israel by both Labour and Conservative Members of Parliament to promote bilateral ties, the United Kingdom announced a “landmark” cooperation deal with Israel in the areas of aging and artificial intelligence in a statement released Friday. Aging and artificial intelligence are two of the four UK government’s Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges....

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is launching a $1 million venture capital fund to help jump-start innovative student-led technologies and ideas, BGU President Dr. Rivka Carmi announced on Wednesday. The announcement was made at the SilicoNegevBGU Festival, the biggest entrepreneurship event in the south of Israel, held at BGU May...

When Syria ascended to the role of presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament for one month on Monday, Robert Wood, the United States ambassador to the conference, called it “one of the darkest days in the history of the Conference on Disarmament.” The week at the U.N. did not get...