After 10 years painting in the streets of Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek neighborhood and sketching caricatures on the city’s beach promenade, an unlikely event recently catapulted graffiti artist Elior Yosef into the international spotlight – an Instagram post by fellow Israeli Gal Gadot. Yosef, 30, says the “Wonder Woman” star...

In her speech to AIPAC, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley brought the crowd to its feet 12 times as she recounted her first year representing the U.S. in the global body. To critics who say that the U.S. favors Israel, Haley retorted, “There’s nothing wrong with showing...

Amid rumors of his deteriorating health, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected the Trump administration’s proposed peace deal and told members of the ruling Fatah party last week that he will not end his life as a “traitor.” The Times of Israel reported that Abbas made the comment to express...

In his meeting with President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask the president to impose sanctions on Iran for testing missiles with ranges greater than 180 miles (300 kilometers), Axios reported Sunday. Israel’s concern is that the United States will give into European fixes of the nuclear deal,...

Guatemala will move its embassy to Jerusalem in May, President of the Republic of Guatemala Jimmy Morales said Sunday in a speech at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference in Washington D.C., The Times of Israel reported. Morales said that Guatemala will move its embassy to Jerusalem...

While acknowledging that any meeting between an Israeli prime minister and an American president is a “momentous event,” Monday’s scheduled meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington occurs at a time when the United States and Israel “have never had such a deep confluence of...

In Guatemala, 45 volunteers from different local community and emergency organizations came together to participate in a light search-and-rescue training course by Israeli ZAKA International Rescue Unit. The three-day course, sponsored by the United Nations’ International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), was led by ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav and ZAKA International...

The two words “never again” have a powerful meaning. They speak to a commitment to prevent another Holocaust. Whether it is meant specifically to prevent another wholesale slaughter of Jews, or generally any ethnic group, the two words speak to a commitment. But however powerful that commitment is, history has...

On Sunday, February 25, Nation of Islam leader, Rev. Louis Farrakhan, gave his annual Saviours’ Day address in Chicago, an event attended by the co-president of the Women’s March, Tamika D. Mallory, The Forward reported Wednesday. At the rally, Farrakhan made a number of incendiary comments. He claimed that “the powerful Jews are...

French authorities arrested four Arab teenagers, who are suspected of beating a 14-year-old Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue in Montmagny, north of Paris. JTA reported that the suspects were detained Wednesday night, after they had attacked their victim around 8 p.m. outside...