Ten days after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, experts from the Israel Trauma Coalition arrived at the community to guide teachers, clinicians, law enforcers, first responders, social workers, parents and clergy through a “day after” strategy for helping people face the future with resilience. Seventeen people were...

One of the rare permanent aspects of politics in the United States is the “bipartisan support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship,” Josh Block, president and CEO of The Israel Project, said in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio on Wednesday. Overall, the message coming from AIPAC, Block said, is that...

A Democratic lawmaker from Chicago who called Rev. Louis Farrakhan “an outstanding human being,” lacks “courage,” a spokesman from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Sunday. The ADL criticism was prompted by two interviews in which Rep. Danny Davis (D – Ill.) praised the Nation of...

A bipartisan group of United States lawmakers sent a letter on Tuesday to United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to compel Al Jazeera, the Middle Eastern news outlet owned by the Qatari government, to register as a state-controlled agent in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Al...

Israeli officials are increasingly concerned about President Abbas’s health and the consequences for stability in the Palestinian Authority. Writing in Haaretz, Amos Harel said that details about Abbas’ health have been shared with Israeli political and security officials amid concerns that, “although security cooperation between Israel and the PA continues...

When Gal Granov started his blog, Whisky Israel, in 2009, the community of whisky aficionados in Israel was small, import taxes on the product were heavy, and no Israeli-made whiskies were being produced. It was a time when Granov, a Sabra from Petach Tikvah who had been writing about food, wine...

In an indication of bipartisan support for fixing the nuclear deal with Iran, a top Democratic lawmaker, said that he agreed with a Republican colleague, and favors “renegotiation” to make the deal “permanent,” at the AIPAC Policy Conference on Monday. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – Md.), the House Democratic Whip, who...

The 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran has to be renegotiated because the accord allows Tehran to develop missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons and evade timely inspections, and eventually “to resume its race toward a nuclear bomb,” two former prime ministers of American-allied countries wrote Monday in an...

In his speech before AIPAC on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of the good, Israel’s current strengths; the bad, Iran’s growing threat; and the beautiful, Israel’s alliance with the United States. Netanyahu spoke of how the words of Biblical prophets inspired American leaders such as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham...

Turkey is turning into a new Pakistan, “a perpetually failing state whose military leadership has tolerated and advanced a vision of political Islam deeply hostile to U.S. and Western interests”, Eli Lake warned in a column published by Bloomberg on Friday. After the Trump administration warned in January that American...