Hamas announced that it executed three Palestinians for allegedly aiding Israel on Thursday. The three unnamed men, ages 55, 42, and 31, were hanged at a police facility in front of Hamas officials, representatives of other Gaza-based groups, and several journalists, Agence France-Presse reported. The news follows the killing of terror mastermind...

Top Palestinian Authority official Jibril Rajoub was served with a $250 million civil lawsuit upon landing at JFK airport in New York on Wednesday—legal recourse for the torture and death of Palestinian-American Azzam Rahim. Rajoub, a high-ranking member of the PA and possible successor to President Mahmoud Abbas, was served with a cause...

Russia on Thursday said it considers Israel’s capital to be western Jerusalem, making it the first country in the world to recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of the city. Moscow’s unexpected announcement reflects “a sharp shift in Russian policy,” which had previously supported placing Jerusalem under the governance of an unspecified...

Last week, the Trump administration replaced Barack Obama’s spineless and counterproductive Syria policy with an even more spineless and counterproductive policy of its own. For five years, the Obama administration impotently called for the removal of Syria’s blood-soaked tyrant Bashar al-Assad, but UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said Washington wouldn’t even...

Israel’s transport and intelligence minister has announced a plan to connect the Israeli and Palestinian rail network to the wider region. Israel Katz’s “Tracks for Peace” plan will include links to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and even Iraq. In return, those Arab states will be given access to...

Saying that San Francisco State University (SFSU) had contributed to “the continuing marginalization and demonization of the Jewish state,” Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat declined an invitation to speak there in a statement released Wednesday. Barkat had given a scheduled talk at the university in April of last year, but was interrupted...

One by one, Micah Hendler gives hello hugs to 30 teenagers from across Israel’s capital city as they arrive for choir practice at the International YMCA on King David Street. Jewish, Muslim and Christian, the girls and boys don’t appear to have much in common until Hendler starts the vocal...

President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the United Nations suggested on Wednesday that a reported chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria’s Idlib Province may prompt a more forceful American approach to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. At a joint press conference with King Abdullah of Jordan, Trump said that Tuesday’s...

An extensive study examining whether Palestinian society supports a two-state solution for peace with Israel was published Monday in Mosaic Magazine. Data was used from some 400 publicly available polls. “Polls of Israelis and Palestinians show that there is still strong support for the two-state solution – in theory,” wrote Daniel Polisar, author...

The Israeli company Water Gen, which developed technology that produces clean water out of thin air, has signed deals to share its innovation with India and Vietnam. The agreements were reached with India’s second largest solar engineering company to provide water to remote villages and with the Vietnamese government to install water generators...