Nearly 60% of Qatar’s residents live in what the government calls “labour camps,” according to an April 2015 census report released by Doha on Sunday. Qatar’s Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) found that 1.4 million people reside in what the department described as “labour camps,” Agence France-Presse reported. At the time of the survey, the Gulf monarchy had a population...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York signed an executive order on Sunday barring the state from contracting entities that boycott Israel. “If you boycott against Israel, New York will boycott you,” said Cuomo, who described the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as an “economic attack” against Israel. “This state will not stand for the...

Foreign investments in Israel have nearly tripled since the Jewish state was first targeted for boycott by a coalition of Palestinian groups, indicating that efforts to isolate it are failing. Foreign capital flow to Israeli assets hit a record high of $285.12 billion last year, nearly triple of what this figure was in 2005, Bloomberg...

More than three dozen legislators representing 19 countries joined together on Saturday night to officially congratulate Israel on the occasion of Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. A letter from the legislators, which was sent to Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, celebrated the...

Israel has sent $20,000 worth of disaster relief supplies to Sri Lanka after heavy rains triggered deadly floods across much of the country. The disaster relief supplies include water pumps, water filters, solar lighting kits, LED torches, and 50,000 tablets for water purification. The aid was delivered by the Embassy of Israel...

An Israeli firm inaugurated the first commercial-size solar field in Georgia on Friday as part of the state’s renewable energy initiative. Energiya USA, a subsidiary of the Israel-based Energiya Global, won a 20-year contract with the state’s power utility in 2014 to provide 22.5 megawatts of electricity in a nearly 60-acre field located in Glynn County. This...

“They Did It.” Thus ran the laconic headline of The Economist on June 10, 1967, above a grainy, black-and white photograph of an Israeli tank behind rubble. In six days, Israel had tripled in size by conquering the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Desert and Golan Heights—and the British newspaper...

JNS.org – Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that befell the Jews of Baghdad 75 years ago in June 1941. In the case of my own family, it was a matter of heeding the advice of a Muslim business colleague of my...

Thirty one countries voted to adopt a new working definition of anti-Semitism last week, a move hailed by human rights activists as an important milestone in countering hatred. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance—an intergovernmental group comprised of 31 nations—adopted a definition based on the 2005 European Monitoring Centre (EUMC) Working Definition, which describes anti-Semitism as “a...

The State Department’s annual report on global terrorist activity, which was released on Thursday, stated that Iran “remains the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in 2015.” The report noted that Iran provides “a range of support, including financial, training, and equipment, to groups around the world.” Iran continued to be deeply involved in...