A Hezbollah-sponsored media tour of the Israeli-Lebanese border last week was a ploy meant to emphasize Hezbollah’s control of Lebanon, an expert on the Levant wrote Monday in Tablet Magazine. Tony Badran, a research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed that Hezbollah’s presence on the border with Israel was coordinated with the...

“Life Riders,” a new emergency response unit of Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national ambulance organization, is being equipped with 1,000 electric bicycles to more easily and quickly reach patients in areas difficult for larger vehicles to access. Each member of the voluntary unit is provided with resuscitation equipment and can...

President Donald Trump pledged to “confront anti-Semitism” and defend the United States’ alliance with Israel in a speech Tuesday marking the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Days of Remembrance. Trump exhorted an audience including Holocaust survivors and lawmakers “to make sure that humanity never, ever forgets” the horrors of the Nazi genocide, reciting the...

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres pledged Sunday to be “on the front lines in the fight against anti-Semitism” and said “the modern form of anti-Semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of Israel.” "The modern form of anti-Semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of...

President Donald Trump said in a pre-recorded message on Sunday that “we must not ignore” a regime that threatens Israel’s existence, seemingly alluding to Iran. “On Yom HaShoah, we look back at the darkest chapter of human history,” the president told the World Jewish Congress on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. “We...

A nano-satellite built by Israeli high school students was launched to the International Space Station on April 18. Named for Israel’s national bird, the Duchifat-2 (in English, Hoopoe-2) nano-satellite was one of 28 student-built nano-satellites sent into space, to be released from the space station in about six weeks’ time....

The U.S. administration has imposed new sanctions on Syrian regime personnel responsible for stockpiling chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. The Treasury Department, which is responsible for applying international financial sanctions, named 271 members of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center in one of the largest sanctions lists ever seen....

Amir and Rotem Lev Zwickel, an Israeli couple living in New York, launched a mobile app called Standing Still that allows people anywhere in the world to stop and stand in silence during the Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israeli Memorial Day two-minute sirens, just as virtually all Israelis do. “On...

Lebanon’s government does not function independently, but rather “exists merely because the Iranian proxy terrorist organisation, Hezbollah, allows it to exist,” a retired Australian military officer wrote Monday in The Australian. Jim Molan, who had served as chief of operations in Iraq and authored Australia’s border control policies, observed that the current calm along...

The popular Arabic-language Twitter feed of a Hamas-linked news agency mocked Israel’s observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, sharing a photograph of Israelis standing outside their vehicles as memorial sirens blared in Tel Aviv. While the city was established by Zionist Jews in 1909 and was part of Israel before 1967,...