Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday harshly criticized the election of a convicted murderer and terrorist to a key committee of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role orchestrating murders during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. He...

While President-elect Donald Trump will likely be stricter in enforcing the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran, the incoming administration should not ignore the threat that Iran’s chemical and biological weapons programs pose, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Monday at Forbes. Enforcing the...

In a wide-ranging interview conducted via videoconference for the 2016 Saban Forum at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised his country’s relationship with the United States, reiterated his continued concerns about Iran’s destabilizing behavior, and expressed frustration that Palestinian leaders have refused to return to the negotiating table. The state of...

A solar electricity generator and storage batteries are providing constant electricity for the first time to Nkaiti Medical Center in Minjingu, a village of about 7,000 subsistence farmers and cattle ranchers in Tanzania—thanks to the Tel Aviv University chapter of Engineers without Borders. Since Minjingu is not connected to the...

Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey handed his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday, becoming Jerusalem’s first ambassador in Ankara after six years of frosty relations. Eitan Na’eh and his family were greeted by Erdoğan during a brief ceremony in the presidential palace, shortly after a military band...

Foreign ministers and other high-level representatives from 13 Western African nations are attending an Israeli agricultural summit that began Monday, the latest sign of improving Israeli-African diplomatic relationships. The conference, which is called “Enhancing Sustainable Agricultural Productivity in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions,” is sponsored by Mashav, Israel’s international development agency, and the...

Documents containing previously-unpublished details of the nuclear deal with Iran could be released after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president next month, The Daily Beast reported Monday. Members of the incoming administration, including Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s pick to be national security advisor, and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kans.), his pick...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has strengthened his grip on the influential Fatah faction following the party’s Congress, as his supporters dominated a vote for the party’s central committee. The results of the election to Fatah’s key body were announced Sunday by Arab media, on the final day of the Fatah...

Twelve people who work in the Iranian fashion industry were sentenced to up to six years in prison for “spreading prostitution,” the BBC reported Monday. The twelve were convicted of spreading prostitution and promoting corruption by publishing images online that were considered obscene. They also were charged with causing Muslims...

Four Palestinian men were found dead in a collapsed smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, local authorities said on Sunday, blaming the Egyptian military for flooding the pathway. The four men “were found dead after the tunnel they were working in was flooded nine days ago...