Four new judges were selected by a parliamentary panel on Wednesday to serve on Israel’s 15-member Supreme Court. The most notable selection was George Kara of the Tel Aviv District Court. Kara is a Christian Arab-Israeli who presided over the 2009-10 trial that convicted former Israeli President Moshe Katzav of rape....

Washington’s envoy to the United Nations met on Wednesday with the parents of a fallen Israeli soldier whose body is being held by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, The Times of Israel reported. Leah and Simha Goldin asked Ambassador Nikki Haley to help pressure Hamas to return the body of their son, Hadar, and that of another Israeli...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shot down speculation that leaders of the 2009 anti-regime protests would be freed, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Khamenei said last week that public calls for “national reconciliation,” which would come about by freeing opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi from their indefinite house arrest,...

Israel’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that it had carried out successful testing of an improved version of the Iron Dome anti-missile system. The tests, which were carried out in southern Israel over recent days, are part of a program of annual testing conducted by the Defense Ministry and Rafael Advanced...

U.S. tech giant Apple has bought Israeli startup RealFace Technology, a leading developer of facial recognition technology, Calcalist reported on Sunday. RealFace’s online presence disappeared on Sunday – its website went offline, as did its Facebook page – upon news of the buyout. While this is a sign the acquisition...

Israel and the Word Bank will sign three agreements in the coming months to cooperate in helping African nations develop their water, cybersecurity, and agriculture capabilities, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Cooperation with the World Bank is an opportunity for us to showcase some of the capabilities and innovation...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull greeted his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in a joint press conference in Sydney on Wednesday by highlighting the two countries’ historic friendship and criticizing the United Nations’ treatment of the Jewish state. Turnbull noted the support Australia have given Israel over the past century, including fighting...

The University of Central Lancashire cancelled an anti-Israel event scheduled to take place on its campus after administrators determined that it ran afoul of the United Kingdom’s newly adopted definition of anti-Semitism, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The panel discussion, arranged by the student group Friends of Palestine, was due...

Iranian officials have banned two siblings from participating in future chess tournaments after the sister failed to cover her hair and the brother played an Israeli opponent at a festival earlier this year. Dorsa Derakhshani, an 18-year-old chess grandmaster, was kicked off Iran’s national team after she failed to wear the Islamic hair covering...

One state? Two states? What’s a Jew to do? What should a Jew in Israel or abroad do? What should any lover of Israel do? What should anyone who cares deeply about the remarkable achievement of renewed Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel and wants to protect it from...