The party of newly installed French President Emmanuel Macron expelled a candidate for a parliamentary seat on Friday over anti-Semitic comments he made on social media, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. En Marche removed Christian Gerin, a journalist, from its ticket for next month’s legislative elections after tweets he made were...

Palestinian municipal elections have taken place over the weekend for the first time since 2012, with ballots cast to elect 145 local councils. The elections went ahead in the West Bank after disagreement between Fatah and Hamas, the ruling administrative body in the Gaza Strip, resulting in Fatah running virtually...

Yarok Technology Transfer, an innovation-based developer of fast, accurate tests for the food industry, today announced it has received the United Nations International Award 2017 for “Innovative Ideas and Technology on Agribusiness.” The Jerusalem-based company was honored for its fast testing system that is able to detect the presence of...

Two Changes of Heart Israel recently received significant support from two unexpected sources. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I – Vt.) earlier this month told an Al Jazeera interviewer that he supports Israel’s right to exist and opposes boycotts that single out the Jewish state. When the interviewer asked him if signing a...

Israeli defense officials have warned that Hamas is planning a terrorist attack in the West Bank to avenge the killing of one of its former masterminds and convicted terrorist Mazen Faqha, who was murdered in March in what Hamas claims was a Mossad operation, the Hebrew daily Israel Hayom reported...

The ongoing terror ties of Qatar, most recently evidenced by its hosting of Hamas’s release of the terror organization’s new political document, make it a problematic ally for the United States, Jonathan Schanzer and Kate Havard wrote Thursday in Newsweek. Schanzer, a former U.S. Treasury Department official and currently Senior...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on all nations to move their embassies to Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of the Israeli people”, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Speaking at a Likud party event ahead of President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to Israel later this month, Netanyahu said that Jerusalem is the...

The Secretary General of Hezbollah has claimed that a future confrontation between the Lebanon-based terror group and Israel could take place within Israeli territory. Hassan Nasrallah said, “Israel has been threatening for ten years to open a front against Hezbollah, but it hasn’t done anything. Israel is afraid of any...

Incoming tourism to Israel tallied up impressive numbers in April 2017, with 349,000 tourist entries recorded — a 38 percent increase over April 2016. In the first four months of this year, 1.09 million tourist entries were recorded – a 28 percent increase on the same period last year. “When there...

The United States government has formally announced that it’s going to arm Kurdish militias in Syria in a bid to capture the city of Raqqa from ISIS, the “capital” of the Islamic State’s “caliphate.” It’s about time. The YPG, or Kurdish Protection Units, is the largest faction in the Syrian...