The cancellation of long-awaited Palestinian elections, as well as the recent hospitalization of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who does not have a clear succession plan, have caused growing concern over whether Palestinians would be prepared to run an effective independent state. Municipal elections had been scheduled for Saturday, but will not be held for several months, if at all,...

Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired two missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer traveling north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait near Yemen on Sunday evening, a U.S. military spokesman said. The USS Mason was “conducting routine operations in international waters in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen” when crew members “detected two inbound missiles over...

The political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised the gunman who murdered two Israelis in Jerusalem on Sunday, referring to him as a “martyr” on social media. Musbah Abu Sbeih opened fire on a crowd of people waiting for a train, wounding six and killing two others before being fatally shot by police....

A gate-shrine from the First Temple period uncovered at Tel Lachish National Park near Mount Hebron has been hailed by Israeli archaeologists as “an important and unusual discovery” that provides compelling evidence for the biblical account of King Hezekiah’s efforts to abolish worship there. The northern part of the 24.5-by-24.5-meter (80×80-foot) gate...

Iran’s continued illicit behavior is making European banks and companies wary of doing business with it, even after the end of nuclear-related sanctions, President Barack Obama’s former Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence told The Weekly Standard on Thursday. Stuart Levey, now the chief legal officer of London-based HSBC Holdings, one of the world’s...

You have to wonder if the barbarians fighting under the flag of the Islamic State still believe that 72 virgins will be waiting for them in paradise once they become “martyrs.” I say this not because the leaders and foot soldiers of ISIS have suddenly woken up to the possibility...

eBay has agreed to purchase Corrigon, a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in visual searches, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. No terms have been announced, but the financial website The Marker estimated the deal to be worth $30 million. eBay acquired another Israeli company, SalesPredict, earlier this year. Corrigon’s visual algorithms allow a...

A Canadian university has suspended a professor who has denied the historical accuracy of the Holocaust and accused Israel of planning the 9/11 terror attacks. Anthony Hall, a professor of liberal education and globalization at University of Lethbridge in Alberta, was suspended without pay while the university investigates whether his statements constitute...

The United Kingdom has frozen roughly $30 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that taxpayer money is being used to pay the salaries of Palestinian terrorists, The Sun reported Friday. The move comes after an investigative report published in the Mail on Sunday in March and another released by the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in June found that British aid money...

Rony Malka, director of law enforcement for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA), received a 2016 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award at the 17th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Monday in Johannesburg. He...