Hamas spends an annual $100 million on its military infrastructure in order to prepare for its next war against Israel, Avi Issacharoff of The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing estimates by Israeli and Palestinian sources. Roughly $40 million is spent on employing around 1,500 diggers to build the Iran-backed terror organization’s network...

Israeli schools will follow a government committee’s recommendation to commemorate Jewish refugees who were forced to leave Muslim-majority countries every November 30, the country’s Education Ministry said Wednesday. The Biton Commission recommended earlier this year that studies of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, those who trace their ancestry to Spain and the Middle...

Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, American political leaders have forgotten about the role Iran played in the atrocity, former Democratic senator Joseph Lieberman wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday. The 9/11 Commission found that “there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out...

A Palestinian court on Thursday postponed next month’s local elections, the first large-scale elections in a decade, due to “procedural problems,” especially over questions of candidate eligibility and the participation of Jerusalem residents in the vote. “The administrative decision [i.e., the elections] must deal with the homeland as one unit, and with...

Scores of successful inventions are shepherded from laboratories to the marketplace by Israel’s renowned system of technology-transfer companies (TTCs), which are part- or wholly-owned by the universities at which the technologies were discovered or improved. Just a few of the companies established via TTCs are Mobileye (Hebrew University), Mazor Robotics (Technion), Phinergy...

The number of disruptions of Jewish and pro-Israel events on college campuses increased last year and are expected to continue to rise, a new study (.pdf) by the Israel on Campus Coalition has found. According to the study, there were 33 campus campaigns to divest from Israel during the 2015-2016 academic year, which was...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas worked as a KGB agent in Syria during the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 reported, citing a newly uncovered Soviet-era archive document. The document reportedly shows that Abbas worked in 1983 for Damascus’ KGB station chief, Mikhail Bogdanov, who is currently a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Bogdanov unsuccessfully attempted...

Germany’s Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that German aid money is likely being used to provide funds to terrorists and their families, The Times of Israel reported Monday. “There are Palestinian institutions that issue payments to the families of those who were killed or injured, which includes family members of the perpetrators,” Maria Böhmer, a...

Iran is systematically pushing the limits of the nuclear deal it reached with world powers last year without facing significant resistance, a leading non-proliferation told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Emily Landau, head of the Arms Control Program at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, offered her assessment in light of revelations last week...

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an umbrella body for 57 European, North American, and Central Asian nations in the security field, has chosen Prof. Gabi Weimann of the University of Haifa to plan and establish a new teaching and research framework concerning online terror. “Online incitement, radicalization, and...