On December 24, a two-day-old baby born to Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Cyprus was flown to Israel by an Israeli medical team, in order to undergo lifesaving heart surgery at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with security forces and officials from...

Israeli Paralympic athletes Caroline Tabib and Alon Nigri won gold medals in table tennis at the US Para Open Championship in Las Vegas, December 13-16. Tabib, 21, who was born paralyzed from the waist down and has been in a wheelchair all her life, beat out four competitors for the...

The recent report in Politico that the Obama administration shut down a systematic investigation into Hezbollah’s drug running in the Western Hemisphere in order to secure the nuclear deal with Iran underscores one of the main costs of the deal: it normalized Iran’s abnormal behavior. The nuclear deal not only erased...

A number of countries supporting Thursday’s United Nations General Assembly vote against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital have “questionable records of their own,” Jake Tapper said in a commentary during his show The Lead on CNN. Tapper singled out critics such as Venezuela, Syria, Yemen and North...

In an October lecture, a professor at USC included “Israeli zionists” on a list titled “Who are terrorists?” the Jewish Journal reported Thursday. A student who attended the October 26 lecture said that David Kang, a professor of International Studies, listed “Israeli zionists,” along with well-known terrorist groups such as...

Israeli-led startup Sirin Labs signed on Barcelona soccer star Lionel “Leo” Messi as its brand ambassador prior to launching an initial coin offering “crowdsale” on December 12 that moved $144 million worth of SRN cryptocurrency tokens in seven days. Switzerland-based Sirin Labs, with R&D in Tel Aviv and an office...

On a visit to the United States, France’s foreign minister said that his nation is “determined” to stop Iran’s continued development of increasingly sophisticated ballistic missiles, Reuters reported Tuesday. Jean-Yves Le Drian, who was in Washington for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, White House national security adviser H.R....

A non-binding resolution introduced in the United Nations General Assembly rejecting President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as “null and void” passed but with “significantly lower” support than the Palestinians had hoped for, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Every nation deserves to choose its capital or where...

Four independent experts working with the United Nations have called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, an academic and doctor accused of espionage for Israel during the nuclear talks between the Islamic Republic and world powers, Agence France-Presse reported on Wednesday. In a statement, the experts...

In their statements suggesting that nations voting against the United States and its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the United Nations today could lose their foreign aid, President Donald Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley are providing a “moment of clarity” in...