Netflix has bought the rights to Fauda, the hit Israeli television series focusing on an undercover counterterrorism unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. The global streaming site has said it will label the show a Netflix Original Series, marking the first time an Israeli series earns this title. The first...

The Histadrut, by far the largest labor union in Israel, on Sunday urged a counterpart union in Germany to abandon its bid to boycott Israel, saying that such actions would harm both Israeli and Palestinian workers, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. After learning that the Oldenburg chapter of the Education...

Israel was one of 27 countries to answer NATO’s recent call for an international search, rescue, and recovery exercise in Montenegro. The National Emergency Management Authority delegation from Israel included 24 people from the Ministry of Defense, the IDF Home Front Command, the Fire and Rescue Authority, and volunteers from...

The number of British people who believe that Israel is a “key ally” of the United Kingdom has grown in the last year, as has the number that oppose boycotts of the Jewish state, a new survey from the Britain Israel Communications & Research Centre (BICOM) revealed. BICOM also found an increase in...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989, criticized the American presidential election in a series of tweets last week while commemorating the 37th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Khamenei criticized the two leading U.S. candidates for president, calling them “unethical.” In US presidential #debates...

The global police agency Interpol has rejected the Palestinian Authority’s bid for membership, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Palestinians had sought a vote on membership during Interpol’s annual meeting this week in Bali, but 62 nations voted in a preliminary hearing against placing the proposal on the agenda. “Many others abstained,...

The first Ethiopian-Israeli beauty queen is on a quest to show the world how “unique and diverse” Israel is, The Algemeiner reported on Friday. Yityish “Titi” Aynaw, who was born in the Ethiopian province of Gondar, is currently on a week-long college speaking tour in the United States. “There are Americans who I...

Ozzy Bitew, a program developer for the website platform Wix, was born in Lod, Israel to parents who immigrated from Ethiopia in 1977. Socioeconomic disadvantages have made high-tech careers difficult to achieve for many Ethiopian-Israelis. But Bitew was able to overcome those obstacles thanks to Tech-Career, which provides specialized courses of...

Hezbollah has been influenced by Russian forces fighting alongside them in Syria, raising concerns that the Iran-backed terror group will adapt those tactics for use against Israel, Defense News reported Sunday, citing a forthcoming report from the Israeli National Security Council. The NSC report asserts that Russian influence may help Hezbollah evolve from a well-armed...

On October 17, the Iraqi government officially declared its plans to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State, more than two years after the city was captured. Unfortunately, winning will require cooperation many different parties. The Shiite government of Iraq, as well as the country’s Shiite militias, both want to be...