In his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, former president Bill Clinton told the story of how his wife, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, introduced an Israeli-developed educational program in Arkansas, which later spread nationwide. “Hillary told me about a preschool program developed in Israel called HIPPY, Home Instruction...

A leading Iranian general who previously called Israel’s destruction “nonnegotiable” recently visited a Syrian town that lies along the country’s border with Israel, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of Iran’s volunteer Basij militia, toured the abandoned city of Quneitra, located...

The Israeli government has authorized the delivery of humanitarian aid into war-torn Syria through the nations’ shared border, an American-Israeli activist who spearheaded the initiative told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Jerusalem agreed to transfer medical, educational, and food aid to its northern neighbor, Moti Kahan said. While Israel activists have sought to help...

A Palestinian terrorist who shot an Israeli rabbi to death was killed after engaging in a firefight with Israeli security forces in the West Bank overnight Tuesday. Mohammed Jabarah al-Fakih, who killed Rabbi Miki Mark and injured his wife and two of his children on July 1, refused calls to surrender...

A bipartisan group of senators has signed a public letter urging the Senate Armed Services Committee to include an additional $320 million for Israeli missile defense systems in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets the Pentagon’s annual budget. Nineteen Republicans and 17 Democrats, led by Sens. Mark...

Israel’s rhythmic gymnastics team won the gold medal in the ribbons event at the International Federation of Gymnastics World Cup Final in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday, narrowly topping the Russian team by just 0.15 points. The win, coming just two weeks before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, is...

The Iranian government has destroyed over 100,000 satellite dishes because cable channels “deviate the society’s morality and culture,” an Iranian general said Sunday. General Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the head of Iran’s Basij militia who presided over the destruction of the dishes, claimed that “what these televisions really achieve is increased divorce, addiction and insecurity...

Rhythmic gymnast Neta Rivkin will hold Israel’s blue-and-white flag aloft at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, to be held August 5 to 21. The Olympic delegation that will be led into the stadium by Rivkin is Israel’s largest one since the country’s first...

Anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. university campuses increased by 45 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to a study (.pdf) released by a watchdog group on Tuesday. The study, carried out by the AMCHA Initiative, focused on more than 100 American campuses with large...

Ninety-nine years after Lord Arthur Balfour pledged British support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in what is now Israel, Palestinian officials announced their intention on Sunday to sue the United Kingdom in an international court for issuing the document. Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki asserted during an Arab League meeting in...