“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” That observation can be found at the beginning of the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). What was true when UNESCO was...

A conglomerate controlled by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is poised to reap huge profits from new oil deals after the country’s petroleum market was opened up in the wake of last year’s nuclear deal, two researchers at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote in a policy brief on Tuesday. Saeed Ghasseminejad and Amir Toumaj...

Israel and Saudi Arabia should form a “collaborative alliance” to become the “twin pillars of regional stability” in the Middle East, a top Saudi lobbyist wrote in The Hill on Tuesday, in what is the latest sign of warming and increasingly-public ties between Arab countries and the Jewish state. Salman al-Ansari, the...

A Palestinian soccer team posed for a picture with a banner praising a terrorist who killed two people last Sunday as a “martyr” and “hero.” Musbah Abu Sbeih wounded six people and killed police officer Yosef Kirma, 29, and retired grandmother Levana Malihi, 60, before being fatally shot by police in Jerusalem. Members...

The U.S. Chess Federation took a stand in support of U.S. women’s champion Nazi Paikidze-Barnes, saying Thursday that it would support her boycott of next year’s world women’s championship in Iran due to the Islamic Republic’s mandatory dress code for women. Paikidze-Barnes, 22, said she would rather boycott the contest than...

A day after UNESCO adopted a resolution rejecting Jewish historical ties to Jerusalem, the agency’s director general warned that any effort “to deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines the integrity of” the city as a World Heritage site. Irina Bokova signaled her opposition to Thursday’s resolution,...

Three men linked to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah were accused of laundering drug money on behalf of the Colombian cartel after authorities said they illegally moved $500,000 into Miami banks, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. The apparent ringleader of the money laundering scheme, 31-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Ammar from Medellin, Colombia, “was quietly booked...

The Israeli water company Netafim, a global leader in irrigation technology, recently acquired a majority share in the Cosa Rican irrigation firm RyM in order to further expand its Central America presence. The multinational company, founded at Kibbutz Hatzerim in 1965, acquired 60 percent of RyM, subsequently establishing Netafim Central America—the company’s 29th subsidiary....

The Jewish owner of an Israeli-style restaurant in Munich was forced to close his eatery due to rising anti-Semitic pressures, Benjamin Weinthal reported Sunday in The Jerusalem Post. Florian Gleibs said he shuttered the Schmock Israeli restaurant after 16 years last week in response to growing agitation against the Jewish state in the...

UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, approved a resolution on Thursday that denied Jewish and Christian historical ties to Jerusalem, a move that was harshly criticized by the White House as well as Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum. “One-sided, unhelpful resolutions have been a recurring challenge at UNESCO in recent...