When the United Nations Security Council voted on December 23rd to approve Resolution 2334, which criticized Israeli construction activity in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank, they became only the latest in a series of UN bodies to take aim at Judaism’s holiest city. Two months earlier, UNESCO, the UN’s...

Bomb threats were made to Jewish community centers in 16 cities across the northeast and southeast United States, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Tuesday. No explosive devices were found in any of the locations, but several buildings were closed and evacuated. They had all resumed operations by 4:30 PM. Paul...

A United States Navy destroyer fired on four smaller Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf’s strategic Straits of Hormuz on Sunday after the smaller crafts approached at an unsafe speed and engaged in behavior that a Pentagon spokesman called “harassing.” The Iranian ships, at least one of which had a...

Anyone who has flown in or out of Tel Aviv can surely attest to the congestion felt at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport. A recent Israel Airports Authority report shows an increase of 1.6 million passengers passing through the transportation hub on international flights in 2016 as compared to 2015 figures....

Global powers, including the United States, have reached an agreement to provide Iran with nearly 130 tons of uranium—which experts believe would be enough to make 10 nuclear bombs. Two diplomats involved with the deal told the Associated Press that the so-called P5+1 powers agreed to the transfer of Russian...

French author and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy was “deeply shocked” by the passage of an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council Resolution last month, he explained in a commentary published Thursday in The Algemeiner. The United Nations, where Israel has been vilified for years, is “one of the last places...

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a cleric who was instrumental in founding the Islamic Republic, served as president of Iran from 1989 to 1997, and was viewed as a mentor to current President Hassan Rouhani, died on Sunday at the age of 82. Rafsanjani helped bring about the 1979 Islamic Revolution,...

Fatah and Hamas, the two main Palestinian political parties, have expressed praise for a terror attack that killed four Israelis in Jerusalem on Sunday. Fadi al-Qunbar, a suspected ISIS supporter, drove a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing Lt. Yael Yekutiel (age 20), Cadet Shir Hajaj (22), Cadet Shira Tzur (20),...

The Israeli high-tech sector posted $10 billion in “exits” in 2016—including the $4.4 billion acquisition of social games developer Playtika in July—according to the annual end-of-year market report by IVC-Meitar. The research firm’s High-Tech Exits Report, published on Tuesday, showed that Israeli high-tech companies closed 104 deals last year—including 93 mergers and...

A Palestinian resident of Jerusalem murdered at least 4 Israelis Sunday by ramming his truck into a group of pedestrians who had just gotten off a bus at the Haas Promenade in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, police and eyewitnesses report. At least 17 more were injured in the attack. The dead victims, 3...