Twenty mayors from around the world who are on a visit to Israel have denounced recent resolutions by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, which denied the Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The 20 mayors are visiting Israel this week as part of the 31st...

Oberlin College Cans Karega Joy Karega, an associate professor of rhetoric at Oberlin College whose Facebook posts featured conspiracies about Jewish bankers controlling world events and accusations that Israel founded ISIS and was responsible for 9/11, was dismissed by the college Tuesday. The school’s board of trustees said in a statement...

A delegation of Israeli parliamentarians met with counterparts from the European Parliament and called for closer ties in a number of areas. The meeting took place on Thursday at the European Parliament in Brussels. Yesh Atid MK and former Science Minister Yaakov Peri, along with Kulanu MKs Eli Alalouf and...

The United Nations’ nuclear agency announced Thursday that for the second time since Iran signed the nuclear deal with global powers last year, it had violated its limits on stockpiling “heavy water,” a component that could be used to make a nuclear weapon. “It is important that such situations should...

Celebrity endorsements are a big boon for brands. Just ask SodaStream, the Israeli company touted by Hollywood beauty Scarlett Johansson. Ask HOT, the Israeli telecom for which Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo filmed a TV commercial. But other stars support Israeli startups with their dollars rather than their faces. Today’s...

Magen David Adom, the Israeli affiliate of the Red Cross, is building an underground blood bank in order to secure the country’s blood supply in case of attacks or natural disasters. A cornerstone-laying ceremony was held on Wednesday in Ramle. The $110 million facility will be able to store 400,000 pints of blood—one-third...

Doctors diagnose as many as 60,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease every year in the United States. Yet diagnosing Parkinson’s with certainty can take years — long after early signs and symptoms have appeared. The Israeli startup BioShai has a game-changing product on the horizon: PDx, the world’s first simple blood...

A famous Parisian chef who plans on attending an international culinary festival in Israel pushed back against anti-Israel activists on social media, calling them “misinformed,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. Stéphane Jégo, head chef of Chez L’Ami Jean in Paris, wrote on Twitter that activists who attempted to dissuade him...

McGill University’s student newspaper has come under fire after announcing that it no longer publishes articles that “promote a Zionist worldview,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. The policy was communicated in a statement made in response to a complaint about the paper’s coverage of anti-Semitism. “Upon reviewing this complaint, we found...

The Palestinian Authority’s payments of salaries to convicted terrorists or their surviving family members constitutes a violation of the Oslo Accords, a former Israeli general wrote this week in a research paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic...