Hamas released a Hebrew-language animated music video on Tuesday night titled “Zionists, You Will Perish in Gaza,” which threatens to destroy Israel. The video features a barrage of rockets raining down on the Jewish state, Hamas militants blowing themselves up near Israeli soldiers, and Jews being shot in the head. The Jewish...

Motorsports fans in Israel are getting excited about reports of the country’s first full-size auto racing track coming down the road in several months in the southern city of Arad. While there is a 1.5-kilometer Formula 3 racetrack in the north, and an annual Formula 1 race has gone through...

Iron Dome batteries intercepted at least three rockets headed towards Eilat from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, the Israel Defense Forces announced Wednesday. At least one other rocket was not intercepted and landed in a vacant field, the IDF said. No injuries were reported as a result of the rockets,...

Hamas confirmed on Wednesday that it has rejected an Israeli offer to help improve the economic situation in the Gaza Strip in exchange for releasing three Israeli hostages and the bodies of two soldiers it is holding, Avi Issacharoff reported in The Times of Israel. Senior Hamas officials acknowledged that Israel...

Computer science and engineering students at the University of Michigan received three mass emails containing racist and anti-Semitic messages on Tuesday night. As the Michigan Daily reported, two identical emails were sent under the subject line “African American Student Diversity” with the message “Hi n*****s, I just wanted to say that I plan to...

Tel Aviv University has been ranked as one of the top schools for producing billion-dollar startups in the world, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Tuesday. A recent global survey conducted by the British software firm Sage found that Tel Aviv University had seven alumni who founded startups valued at $1 billion or more, ahead of...

President Donald Trump should sign a new free trade agreement with Israel and extend the Visa Waiver Program to cover Israelis, the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama wrote on Tuesday. Daniel Shapiro, who co-authored the analysis with his senior advisor Scott Lasensky, credited Obama with making progress on...

Two fans of the Italian soccer club S.S. Lazio were acquitted on charges of incitement and racial hatred after denigrating opposing fans by calling them “Jews,” Ynet reported Wednesday. Security cameras at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome during a March 2013 game between Lazio and Calcio Catania caught the Lazio fans screaming...

Turkish Tourism Minister Nabi Avci arrived in Israel on Tuesday as part of the first high-level visit since last year’s reconciliation agreement between Jerusalem and Ankara. Avci joined representatives from 57 other countries, including 15 foreign ministers, at the International Mediterranean Tourism Market 2017 expo in Tel Aviv. “The bilateral relations...

Archaeologists and Tel Aviv University students on Sunday kicked off a month-long excavation atop Masada, the first Israeli site to qualify for the UNESCO World Heritage List (in 2001). The winter expedition, running February 5 – March 3, 2017, marks the first time excavations have resumed on the mountain since...