Israel’s High Court of Justice issued a landmark decision on Wednesday that will pave the way for unrestricted women’s prayer at the Western Wall. The court gave the government 30 days to find “good cause” why women should not be allowed to read aloud from a Torah scroll at the holy...

Players for Israel’s World Baseball Classic team are visiting Israel to spark interest in the sport ahead of the competition in March, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The players visited the holy sites in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea, and an air force base, and put on a baseball clinic for...

Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, laid flowers at the site of Sunday’s truck-ramming terror attack at the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem Wednesday. Speaking at a memorial event hosted by The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), Mladenov drew a link between terror...

Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill on Monday aimed at combating efforts to restrict trade with Israel, making Michigan the 15th state to enact such legislation, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Tuesday. While Israel is not specifically mentioned in the legislation, the law states that Michigan’s Department of Management and Budget and all...

The “worst part” of President Barack Obama’s legacy in the Middle East will be the hundreds of thousands who have died in Syria’s civil war as a result of his disengagement from the region, former Israeli defense and foreign minister Moshe Arens wrote in Haaretz on Tuesday. Obama’s failure to back up...

Iranian parliamentarians voted on Monday to increase the country’s military spending to five percent of the budget and advance its development of long-range ballistic missiles. The measure also prioritizes “developing and increasing the power to produce missiles,” improving Iran’s air defense power, and “developing and strengthening electronic warfare and cyber defense capabilities,” the Tasnim News...

A new university course on the use of medical cannabis is further establishing Israel’s long recognized status as a global leader in medical cannabis research and development. The course — covering the history of the plant’s medicinal components, the current status of medical marijuana, its legal background and rulings, the active...

Top congressional Democrats, including both the Senate and House minority leaders, have registered their objections to the Obama administration’s failure to veto an anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution at the end of December. Hours before the Security Council voted on resolution 2334, which denounces Israeli presence in the West Bank and...

In one of his final acts in office on December 30, outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon submitted a confidential report to the UN Security Council alleging that Iran may have violated an international arms embargo by smuggling weapons to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Reuters reported Sunday. The report also contains...

At least seven Egyptian policemen were killed in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Monday after a complex attack which targeted a checkpoint in El-Arish. According to Reuters, the attack began when a bomb, which had been planted in a stolen vehicle several days earlier, exploded. The explosion was followed by gun...