Anti-Israel UN Resolutions? Not in Our House (of Representatives) Battle lines have been drawn between the Obama administration and a large bipartisan majority of Congress after the White House refused to veto United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli activities in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank. The House of Representatives...

The newly appointed vice president of Venezuela is suspected by American intelligence of drug smuggling as well as close ties to Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, Business Insider reported Thursday. The appointment of Tareck El Aissami, formerly the governor of Aragua state, means that if he could become the country’s president if the increasingly-embattled...

Perched on a ledge outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is an unremarkable wooden ladder, placed there by an unknown person, which has stood untouched for 150 years. The six Christian denominations that grudgingly share one of Christianity’s holiest sites are locked in a tense territorial standoff....

A former Supreme Commander of NATO advocated for even closer military cooperation between the United States and Israel in an essay for Time on Thursday. Former Admiral James Stavridis, now the Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, wrote that in order for the United States to confront the...

A glimmer of hope in the fight against Iranian-backed terrorism shone forth from Argentina during the final days of 2016. A federal appeals court ruled that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will face a new investigation over allegations that she and her close colleagues made a secret pact with...

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a measure on Thursday objecting to last month’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution. House Resolution 11, which passed 342-80, condemned Security Council Resolution 2334, which called Israel’s activities in eastern Jerusalem and other areas captured in 1967 “a flagrant violation under international law.”...

One day after last month’s vote in the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israeli activities in areas it conquered in 1967, the world body’s General Assembly approved funding to create a database of companies that do business in those areas, which some fear could be used to create a “blacklist,” Fox News...

Or Sasson won a bronze medal in judo at last summer’s Rio Olympics. The 25-year-old national hero then donated his Olympic jacket to Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. At Shalva’s gala dinner on December 18, the coveted jacket was auctioned for $100,000...

Iranian political prisoners are increasingly engaging in hunger strikes as a “last resort” to bring attention to their plight, researchers from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) reported in a policy brief on Wednesday. One prisoner, Arash Sadeghi, was sentenced to 19 years in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for “assembly and collusion against national...

The world’s tallest solar tower is currently being constructed in Israel’s Negev desert, the latest example of the Jewish state’s newfound emphasis on renewable energy. The tower, which will be 250 meters (820 feet) tall, is encircled by around 50,000 mirrors, called heliostats. Unlike the more common photovoltaic solar panels, which convert sunlight directly...