Artifacts including tiny shards of clay and bone from the time of Solomon’s Temple were unearthed for the first time on the Temple Mount, Israeli archaeologists revealed on Thursday. The discoveries, which include “olive pits, animal bones and pottery fragments dating to the time of the First Temple, between the 8th...

Three Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when a Palestinian Authority police officer opened fire on a security checkpoint near Ramallah in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The policeman, identified as 26-year-old Muhammad Turkman, opened fire at the Focus checkpoint with an AK-47 rifle before being fatally shot...

Lebanon’s newest president, a retired general who is firmly allied with the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah, threatened Israel in his inaugural address in Beirut on Monday, The Times of Israel reported. Michel Aoun secured 83 votes in parliament, comfortably exceeding the majority required to win the presidency in the 128-seat chamber....

UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, has recently angered the Israeli government by passing two resolutions that were reported to have been “denying,” “nullifying,” “ignoring,” “failing to acknowledge,” and “erasing” Jewish ties to the Temple Mount. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked sarcastically whether UNESCO would next “deny…the connection between peanut...

Two men from the Los Angeles area have been charged with attempting to smuggle military plane parts to Iran, the Justice Department announced on Friday. Zavik Zargarian and Vache Nayirian were arrested on Wednesday morning over their suspected roles in “a scheme to smuggle millions of dollars’ worth of military aircraft parts and other...

You probably haven’t heard of Karlheinz Kopf. He’s one of three Austrian politicians currently sharing that country’s presidency following the departure of the previous incumbent in July. Kopf just returned to Vienna from Iran, where he distinguished himself by calling on the United States to ditch those sanctions against the...

The Palestinians’ Extreme Negotiators Two Palestinian peace negotiators were in the spotlight this week, but what was on display was not their compromising natures, but rather their extremism. Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was quoted by the official Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida earlier this month praising terrorists who are imprisoned by Israel. “The prisoners’...

Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic medicines producer, and the American computing giant IBM announced on Wednesday that they will expand their global e-Health alliance to “[discover] new treatment options and [improve] chronic disease management,” The Times of Israel reported. Both initiatives will be hosted on IBM’s Watson Health Cloud...

Representatives of the Baha’i religion accused the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday of “ongoing efforts to destroy the Baha’i community,” the Associated Press reported. In a 122-page document, the Baha’i International Community outlined the Rouhani administration’s efforts to intensify its “campaign to incite hatred against Baha’is,” including by spreading over...

Police were summoned to the University College London (UCL) on Thursday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters tried to forcefully shut down a pro-Israel event and trapped attendees in the room. Hen Mazzig, a former humanitarian affairs officer in the Israeli military, was speaking at an event organized by the student group...