Earlier this month, the East Jerusalem chapter of Israel’s voluntary neighborhood-based emergency response network, United Hatzalah, welcomed new member Dr. Murad Issam Odeh at a celebratory event honoring 30 Arab volunteer emergency medical technicians, paramedics and doctors in Israel’s capital city. During the dinner, Odeh received his United Hatzalah first...

The main impediment to peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the lack of unity between Fatah and Hamas, which prevents Israeli diplomats from facing a legitimate interlocutor who represents all Palestinians, Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis for Politico on...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday welcomed Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković to Jerusalem, where the two leaders signed a declaration of intent to cooperate in the fields of disaster prevention and emergency response. The agreement follows Croatia’s efforts to aid Israel when wildfires swept through the country in November. “We cooperate in...

More than 450 Palestinians were tortured to death in Syrian prisons since the outbreak of that country’s civil war, with 1,100 others remaining in regime custody and thousands fleeing abroad, veteran Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported on Monday. Abu Toameh observed that while numerous foreign journalists are eager to report...

Iran is repopulating Syrian territory from Damascus to Homs with Shiites families from elsewhere in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, turning the area into “zones of influence” that Iran “can directly control and use to advance broader interests,” The Guardian reported earlier this month. Calling the Iranian controlled process “a historic shift...

Dozens of Palestinians graduated from Hamas’ military training program in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, “displaying weapons, marching in military formation and burning an Israeli flag in front of crowds of cheering supporters,” The Times of Israel reported. Graduates ranged in age from middle-aged adults to young children, one of...

Courts in Madrid and Barcelona delivered legal blows to the foundations of the anti-Israel boycott campaign in Spain this past week. In suits brought by ACOM, a pro-Israel organization that fights the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, the two courts ruled to overturn discriminatory policies adopted by city councils in...

Ukrainian authorities announced on Friday that they seized a shipment of missile system components that were bound for Iran, in violation of an arms embargo against the Islamic Republic. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said that the parts were found on an Iran-bound flight at Kiev’s Zulyany airport, Jane’s Defence...

An British-Iranian charity worker who was arrested last year by Iran on charges of attempting to overthrow the government has had her five-year sentence upheld by Iran’s judiciary, the Guardian reported Sunday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April while preparing to depart from Tehran’s international...

President Donald Trump praised the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel while speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone on Sunday, echoing sentiments expressed by previous American presidents. According to the White House’s readout of the call, the two leaders discussed “ways to advance and strengthen the U.S.-Israel special relationship, and...