For the first time, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will lead a ceremony for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were tortured and killed by Palestinian terrorists in the 1972 Munich Games. For the past 44 years, Israel, the families of the victims, and many parliaments worldwide have called on the Olympic...

The Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula released a new video threatening Israel, saying it will turn into “a graveyard for Jews,” The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. The 35-minute video, which was published on Monday by ISIS-Sinai Province, features footage of assaults on Egyptian forces, including bombings and shootouts. A...

Official Palestinian Authority television broadcasted a controversial video last week that showed a father trying to get his son shot by Israeli troops, but deleted the scene in which the boy didn’t listen to instructions and high-fived the Israeli soldier instead, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Monday. In the...

A group of American police chiefs, including those from cities recently struck by devastating terror attacks, are visiting Israel to learn advanced counter-terrorism techniques, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. About a dozen senior law enforcement officials — including the police chief of Orlando, Florida and the sheriff of San Bernardino County,...

Oberlin College professor Joy Karega, who was heavily criticized after The Tower revealed in February that she had posted Facebook status claiming that Israel was behind the rise of ISIS and the 9/11 terror attacks and Charlie Hebdo terror attacks, has been put on leave and will be barred from...

Hackers believed to be associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accessed user accounts of the secure messaging app Telegram earlier this year, identifying the phone numbers of millions of Iranians, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The breach is the largest yet of the secure messaging system, cybersecurity experts told...

The United States sent a $400 million cash shipment to Iran at the same time that four Americans imprisoned in the Islamic Republic were released, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Wednesday, raising concerns that the release of the funds constituted a form of ransom. In parallel with the nuclear...

Iran will be able to produce enough nuclear material for an atomic weapon in as little as four months by 2029, the Institute for Science and International Security concluded in a report (.pdf) released Tuesday. A secret addendum to last year’s nuclear deal, which was obtained by the Associated Press last...

Education game developer Matific has raised $45 million from investors, which it says it will use to increase research and development activities in Israel. Matific is a series of math video games developed by Slate Science. To date, 15,000 teachers use the games aimed at kindergarten through sixth grade to add...

A dual British-Iranian citizen who was arrested by Iranian authorities in April had her first appearance in one of Iran’s Islamic revolutionary courts on Monday but remains separated from her toddler, The Guardian reported. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a charity worker who was visiting family in Iran before being arrested at the Tehran airport shortly...