A 2,000-year-old scale weight belonging to the family of the Jewish high priest has been discovered by an archaeologist in Jerusalem, Ynet reported Tuesday. The artifact was located underneath the Tiferet Israel synagogue, which was built in the 18th century and destroyed by Jordan in 1948. Excavations under the synagogue have led to...

The New York City Council overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign on Wednesday, The New York Daily News reported. The resolution, which rejected “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction the people of Israel,” passed...

The United Nations’ use of the word “occupation” to describe Israeli-held territories beyond the 1949 armistice agreement lines, which it does not use while describing seven other cases of occupation, shows that the world body “has no interest in battling injustice unless Israel is the country accused,” Eugene Kontorovich and Penny Grunseid wrote...

Israel won its first two Paralympic medals of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games earlier this week: Rower Moran Samuel won a bronze medal in the women’s single sculls competition on Sunday, and sharpshooter Doron Shaziri took the bronze in the men’s 50-meter rifle final on Monday. Samuel, a former member of the Israeli...

An event sponsored by a member of Congress to promote boycotts of Israel was quickly cancelled after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D – Calif.) found out about the event from a prominent Jewish advocate, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday. The event was to have been hosted on Friday...

The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a scheduled anti-Israel course because its facilitator failed to ensure that the syllabus lived up to the school’s academic standards, the office of the chancellor said in an e-mail on Wednesday. The office of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks explained that the proposed class, “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” did not undergo “a sufficient...

One of Israel’s most prominent authors said on Tuesday that advocating against Israel’s very existence is where “anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism.” “I can tell you exactly where I draw the line. If people call Israel nasty, I to some degree agree. If people call Israel the devil incarnated, I think they are obsessed –...

Iran threatened to shoot down two American planes flying in international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, the latest example of Tehran’s increased aggression in the Persian Gulf. The American planes disregarded the warning and eventually landed safely. “We wanted to test the Iranian reaction,” a U.S. defense official...

The husband of a British-Iranian charity worker who was sentenced to five years in prison by an Iranian court last week said that his wife is being held as a “bargaining chip,” The Evening Standard reported on Tuesday. Richard Ratcliffe, who was recently allowed to speak to his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, explained that she feels “desperate” as “there’s...

The upcoming Wonder Woman film is scheduled for release next June, and fans of the DC Comics series are eagerly collecting every tidbit available about the movie while they wait. Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who portrays the Amazonian warrior, posted a snapshot of behind-the-scenes fighting on her Twitter and Instagram feeds. The...