Top Iranian military and political officials have reiterated their enmity towards both the United States and Israel recently, specifically singling out the Jewish State for threats of destruction. “If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in...

Hamas announced that it will carry out 13 public executions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, presenting a challenge to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who must approve all execution orders. The condemned prisoners have been charged with murder and robbery, although none have been accused of collaborating with Israel. Capital...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French Prime Minister Manuel Valls during a meeting on Monday that while he appreciates France’s desire to pursue peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the international peace initiative Paris is planning will not lead to a negotiated solution, which can only be reached by bilateral talks. Netanyahu instead called for “direct...

The head of the Jewish campus organization Hillel International condemned anti-Israel protesters who “aggressively confronted and threatened” students attending a film screening at the University of California, Irvine last week. “We cannot allow Jewish students to be intimidated, threatened or harassed when they exercise their rights to assemble for student programming. Hillel...

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip increasingly fear that the ongoing construction of Hamas tunnels in residential areas means that their lives will be in danger if a future war breaks out between the terrorist group and Israel, The New York Times reported. One woman living by Gaza’s border with Israel said she believes a hidden tunnel entry...

An umbrella group representing journalists in Israel and the Palestinian territories slammed Hamas for its “thuggish behavior” towards reporters on Thursday night. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said a photographer for SIPA Press, Heidi Levine, was detained for over three hours by Hamas earlier on Thursday before being permitted to leave the Gaza Strip....

A foundation recently identified by the White House as a key player in its effort to sell last year’s nuclear deal with Iran gave a number of news organizations, including National Public Radio, funds to report on the accord and related matters, the Associated Press reported Friday. The report comes...

The 2016 International Women’s Forum (IWF) World Cornerstone Conference convened in Tel Aviv to address pressing global challenges, and its participants hoped to find solutions by emulating the Israeli experience. “Israelis have a long history of making the impossible not just possible, but a reality,” said IWF President Teresa Weintraub....

In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s positive response to Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi’s call for peace talks, moderate Arab states have been reaching out diplomatically to Israel and showing some flexibility regarding the Arab Peace Initiative, Israel’s channel 10 reported on Friday. Arab governments, including those...

Iran’s continued arming of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah means a large-scale conflict with Israel remains “a genuine possibility,” former State Department official Aaron David Miller wrote in an analysis for CNN on Thursday. Miller, now a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, prefaced...