The BBC has come under fire for publishing a news article on Wednesday stating that “The Holocaust is a sensitive topic for many Muslims because Jewish survivors settled in British-mandate Palestine, on land which later became the State of Israel.” The British Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a volunteer-led charity dedicated to...

An Israeli cybersecurity researcher discovered a way to thwart the ransomware attack that has plagued computers across the world this week, CNN reported Wednesday. Amit Serper, a security researcher at Cybereason, found a way to reverse-engineer the NotPetya ransomware, which affected Windows-based computers in Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and much...

A mortar shell was fired from Syria into the Israeli Golan Heights on Wednesday evening, 10 miles from a town where the Israeli prime minister was visiting. In a speech on Wednesday in Katzrin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We are here celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Katzrin, the capital...

Coral reefs are dying on a massive scale around the world, driven by climate change. The planet’s largest reef, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, has only a third of its 2,300-kilometer ecosystem left unscathed by bleaching, which happens when colored algae are ejected by the coral and their normal symbiosis breaks...

A Syrian opposition website claimed on Wednesday that President Bashar al-Assad recently visited an Iranian-run chemical weapons and missile production facility, The Times of Israel reported. The website, Zaman al-Wasl, cited a source reportedly with close ties to the White House who said that the U.S. administration is aware of plans...

Iran is not shy about its aim of spreading influence abroad, nor its apparent success with establishing a “visible presence … just a stone’s throw from Israel,” The Jerusalem Post’s Seth J. Frantzman reported Wednesday. Just meters from the fence that separates Israel and Lebanon, where the Israeli community of...

A United States aircraft carrier is slated to dock in an Israeli port for the first time in 17 years on Saturday. The USS George H. W. Bush, named for the World War II naval aviator and 41st U.S. president, is scheduled to arrive in Haifa for a four day stopover...

Organizers of the Chicago Dyke March on Tuesday defended their decision to eject three participants who displayed Jewish symbols by claiming that “Zionism is an inherently white-supremacist ideology.” The group’s official statement also included screenshots of a chat between an organizer and Laurel Grauer, one of the marchers targeted for holding a rainbow LGBT flag emblazoned...

If the idea of Sweden in the winter warms your creative juices and you’re part of an early-stage startup, a new entrepreneurial boot camp sponsored by IKEA may be just your cup of glogg. IKEA is looking for 10 startups with two to six cofounders or team members to join them in...

The White House warned the Syrian regime on Monday that if it carried out another chemical weapons attack against civilians, it would “pay a heavy price.” “The United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of...