The United States will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unless the agency undertakes significant reforms, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wrote in a letter to advocacy groups this week. The letter, which was first reported by Foreign Policy, states that the Trump administration “continues to evaluate the effectiveness” of the council,...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has been seeking legitimacy and money in Europe by leveraging networks affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, its parent organization, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel. One of the goals of this campaign, which is ongoing in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin...

Intel’s record-breaking $15 billion acquisition proposal for the Israeli automotive technology company Mobileye demonstrates the company’s belief in Israel as a major business and technology center, the Fortune 500 company’s chief executive said Tuesday. “We think of ourselves as an Israeli company as much as a U.S. company,” Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said at...

Young families in South Korea and China will now be able to access HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents and Preschool Youngsters), an Israeli-developed early learning program already reaching 20,000 families at 440 program sites in countries including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Liberia, New Zealand, and the United States....

A significant Palestinian faction has withdrawn from May’s municipal elections in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank to protest against the Palestinian Authority security services’ handling of recent protests. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is classified as a terror group by Israel, said on...

A new report released on Friday by the United Nations Human Rights Council charged the Syrian regime with committing war crimes in the last seven months, including by bombing schools and water supplies. In October, planes executed a so-called “double tap attack” on a school complex near Idlib, bombing a school and then...

The Mensch will not be advancing to the third round. Team Israel’s improbable run in the World Baseball Classic came to a disappointing end on Wednesday in Tokyo after it lost to Team Japan 8-3. The biggest bright spot of the game for Team Israel was pitcher Josh Zeid’s four...

There are already subtle, and not so subtle, indications that Israel may be heading for early elections. Of all the issues surrounding Israel at the moment—Iran, Syria, Russia, the Palestinians, and, of course, Trump—the looming battle over the next government holds the greatest potential for major change. As recently as...

The son of an Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011 has himself been sentenced to six months in prison on charges of distributing anti-government propaganda, Radio Free Europe reported Tuesday. Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi ran as a reformist presidential candidate in 2009 against incumbent Mahmoud...

Researchers from the Technion and Harvard are offering a new theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops that could change the way the neurological disease is treated. Associate Professor Simone Engelender of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and her colleague Ole Isacson at Harvard Medical School say the toxic protein behind...