Mexico City was badly damaged in the deadly 7.1 magnitude September 19 earthquake, and although aid poured into the city, the hard-hit villages were left to cope alone until volunteers from Israeli humanitarian aid nonprofit IsraAID suddenly turned up. “IsraAID was the first group to offer help to our village,” said a...

Iran has halted flights to airports in the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq at the request of the central government in Baghdad in retaliation to a referendum on independence, Haaretz reported Monday. The Islamic Republic stopped air traffic to the international airports of Erbil and Sulaimaniya, in Iraqi Kurdistan,...

Valerie Plame, a controversial former CIA agent, resigned from the Ploughshares Fund following her tweet promoting an anti-Semitic article last week, The Hill reported Sunday. The article from the Unz Review alleged that Jews were behind most of the wars waged by the United States. Plame subsequently apologized for and...

Following Iran’s launch of a newly unveiled ballistic missile capable of striking Israel, President Donald Trump questioned the effectiveness of the 2015 nuclear deal. On Saturday, Iran claimed to have successfully test-launched a Khorramshahr ballistic missiles capable of carrying multiple warheads and with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles), enough to...

United States President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, will return to Israel on Monday amid Arabic media reports about a new peace plan. A senior White House official said that Greenblatt and his family planned to visit Israel on a private holiday, adding that Greenblatt would...

An Israeli culinary group’s eatery, The Barbary, was named the best restaurant in London by TimeOut London for 2017. The Barbary was opened by the Jerusalem-based Machneyuda restaurant franchise in 2016, following up on the success of its first London eatery, The Palomar. Machneyuda is headed by Israeli chefs Assaf Granit, Uri Navon and Yossi...

The chairman of the German-Israel parliament group on Thursday attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for meeting primarily with NGOs critical of Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. Green Party MP Volker Beck said that “The balance of the discussion partners speaks not only for a special passion—the so-called...

Ahead of the UN General Assembly and the meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The Israel Project (TIP) organized a conference call with Elliott Abrams on September 14  discussed some of the issues that would dominate the agenda. Abrams, who served as deputy national...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that the Iran nuclear deal is no longer a sufficient safeguard against Iranian aggression in the region and the country’s ballistic missile tests, Reuters reported. Macron was speaking in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. “Is this agreement enough?...

Israeli warplanes attacked a Hezbollah weapons depot outside of Damascus in the early hours of Friday morning, The Times of Israel reported. According to reports in Arabic media outlets, the three separate strikes were carried out near Damascus International Airport, an area which is a stronghold of the Iranian-backed terrorist...