An emergency meeting of key donors to Gaza will meet in Brussels Thursday to discuss ways to alleviate the humanitarian situation and reduce the risk of conflict. The 15-member Ad Hoc Liaison Committee will discuss the severe humanitarian and economic challenges within Gaza, the impact of the United States decision to freeze half its contribution...

French authorities are investigating an assault on an 8-year-old boy wearing a Jewish kippa in a Paris suburb, the second assault on Jewish children in the area in three weeks, which France’s President Emmanuel Macron denounced as “heinous.” The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday that investigators suspect the incident...

U.S. News and World Report has ranked Israel the eighth most powerful nation in the world. And Bloomberg News reports that the Jewish state is the 10th most innovative worldwide, edging out the United States, which fell in Bloomberg’s survey to 11th place this year. The two lists with similar placements for Israel were compiled...

An increasing number of residents from Arab sections of Jerusalem are working in the Jewish parts of the city, leading to a narrowing of the income gap between Jews and Arabs in the city, Bloomberg News reported Monday. Ro’aa, a 22-year-old sales clerk, explained that she didn’t have success working...

President Donald Trump hosted United Nations Security Council ambassadors for lunch at the White House, took them to see remnants of rockets identified as originating in Iran, and urged them to fight “Iran’s destabilization activities” in the region, The New York Times reported Monday. During his time with the ambassadors, Trump brought...

On the Friday edition of his show “Real Time,” television host Bill Maher defended United States President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Real Clear Politics reported on Saturday. The comedian’s defense of Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was out of character for Maher, who...

In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Putin that Israel would not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria or making Lebanon into “factory for precision missiles” to attack Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Regarding Iranian efforts to establish a base of operations...

At the end of December, we reported on the airlift of a critically ill newborn boy to Sheba Medical Center’s Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital in Israel, just days after he was born to Syrian refugees in Cyprus. ISRAEL21c has just received an update on the successful treatment of the infant’s...

Since agreeing to the nuclear deal with six powers, including the United States, in July 2015, Iran has tested 23 ballistic missiles, in defiance of language in a related United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Iran not to develop such weapons, according to a study released last week by the...

The American Special Representative for International Negotiations, who is currently in Israel, blasted Hamas for prioritizing the building of “tunnels & rockets” at the expense of “getting the lights on, the water flowing & the economy growing” for the people of Gaza, as he toured southern Israel and was briefed...