The Trump administration praised a series of measures approved by Israel to help improved the Palestinian economy and relax travel restrictions for the Palestinians, in a statement released Monday. According to the statement, the measures approved by the Israeli cabinet on Sunday are consistent with President Donald Trump’s “particular interest” in...

President Donald Trump said in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that the nuclear deal emboldened Iran to continue its destabilizing actions across the Middle East. Speaking to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Trump said that he saw a “deeper path to friendship” in the Arab world, which...

President Donald Trump became the first sitting American president to visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday. The president was guided in his visit by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, who was appointed to his post in 1995 by the late Israeli...

The United States and Saudi Arabia have agreed a defense package worth $110 billion. “This package of defense equipment and services supports the long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the face of malign Iranian influence and Iranian related threats,” the U.S. State Department said. The State Department...

U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his first official trip to Israel on Monday with a warm welcoming ceremony at Ben-Gurion Airport, where he was greeted by Israeli leaders including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin. After flying directly from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the president spent the...

Wrinkle-smoothing hyaluronic acid can now be introduced into the skin without injections, thanks to an Israeli research team that spent years developing a nanotechnology for this purpose. Facial wrinkles, lines and sagging result from the body’s gradual loss of its ability to produce hyaluronic acid. In the past, treatments of...

The Trump administration’s emerging strategy for confronting Iranian threats appears to be upholding the nuclear deal while sanctioning Iran’s non-nuclear behavior, two experts on the agreement wrote Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and David Albright, a former weapons...

Syria is Burning Syria is burning — literally. The State Department accused the regime of Bashar al-Assad this week of building a crematorium at Syria’s notorious Sednaya prison to dispose of the corpses of executed inmates. As many as 50 prisoners are believed to be killed each day at Sednaya, which has been...

President Donald Trump’s first visit to Israel is an opportunity to underscore that “the U.S.-Israel relationship is strong,” a former U.S. Treasury Department official said Friday. Jonathan Schanzer, now the senior vice president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Israelis were “happy” that Trump chose to reciprocate Prime Minister Benjamin...

American fighter jets on Thursday struck a convoy of forces loyal to the Syrian regime that approached a base where U.S. and British forces are training Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State, VOA News reported. The pro-regime convoy had come within 18 miles the al-Tanf base, which houses U.S. and...