A top official of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has called for its inclusion in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), an umbrella group internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinians, while stressing the Islamist movement’s continued commitment to attacking Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The PLO is dominated by the...

In an unconventional beauty pageant in Israel on Sunday, fourteen participants posed for pictures with elegant hairdos, waved their hands at adoring crowds, and spoke of their experience in surviving the atrocities of World War II. The event was the fourth such pageant dedicated to celebrating the life and resilience of Holocaust...

Iran-backed militias in Iraq are raising flags identifying their Shi’ite loyalties in the battle to oust the Islamic State from Mosul, raising concerns among local leaders in the Sunni-majority region, Reuters reported Sunday. The militias, also known as Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), mostly includes “groups trained by Iran and loyal to its Supreme...

Members of Congress are warning that a recent White House directive to share more sensitive intelligence with Cuba will in turn benefit Iran, which is developing a larger footprint in Latin America, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday. The policy directive, issued on October 14, instructed the U.S. director of national intelligence “to...

Israeli researchers may have discovered a new way to treat AIDS with a drug that dramatically reduces the HIV viral load of affected patients, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday, citing Israeli media. The new drug, called Gammora, was injected into test tubes containing the blood of ten HIV carriers, and was...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first holder of his office to visit Australia, Singapore, and Kazakhstan during a series of trips over the next three months, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. He is also slated to visit Azerbaijan, which he toured briefly as prime minister...

A previously overlooked inscription in an ancient mosque near the city of Hebron has shed light on how, up to the mid-20th century, the Muslim world associated Jerusalem’s Temple Mount with the two Jewish sanctuaries that once stood there — a historical reality that has since been erased from the Palestinian narrative in...

The denial of the historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in last week’s “deplorable” UNESCO resolution is the “opposite of constructive and [deserves] only contempt,” The Boston Globe‘s editors asserted on Tuesday. The Arab-sponsored resolution, which the editors called a “blatant historical fabrication,” had “pointedly ignored Judaism’s connection to the Temple Mount,” even...

The Israeli voluntary emergency response group United Hatzalah has joined a multi-organization mission to bring disaster and medical relief to Haiti following the destruction left on the island by Hurricane Matthew earlier this month. The mission — led by Jet911, a New York City-based medical transport company — departed from New York...

American and coalition forces have intercepted five Iranian arms shipments to Houthi rebels in Yemen since April 2015, the commander of the United States Fifth Fleet announced last week. Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan said that the weaponry included thousands of AK-47 automatic rifles, anti-tank missiles, and sniper rifles, CNN reported on Saturday. The U.S. Navy...