French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced on Thursday that an international conference to discuss possible parameters for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be held on June 3 in Paris. A previously planned conference for May 30 was scrapped when Secretary of State John Kerry said that...

The United Methodist Church voted to withdraw from an anti-Israel coalition just days after rejecting four divestment resolutions targeting the state. The Methodists approved a petition to withdraw from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation by a vote of 478-318. The petition described the group a “one-sided political coalition,”...

A French banking giant has shut down an account belonging to the country’s anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “BDS France used illegal ways to open its account and Crédit Mutuel closed it,” said Jean Patrick Grumberg, an Israeli journalist who has followed the...

When Coldplay releases a new music video, the music world takes note. And the British band’s latest release for new single “Up&Up” is a mesmerizing montage of creative composites that has music fans and reviewers alike already calling for a Grammy Award. The video, released on May 16, is directed...

The Israeli military has successfully tested its new “Iron Dome of the sea” anti-rocket defense system, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The Tamir-Adir system, which is mounted on ships, is designed to shoot down short-range rockets like the kind Hamas fires from the Gaza Strip. In tests two weeks...

One of Israel’s leading hotel chains is preparing to open its first overseas facility in Bengaluru, India, the Economic Times reported Wednesday. “The construction of the 230-rooms hotel is underway and we hope to inaugurate it in about 10-12 months,” said Raffi Sadeh, the CEO of Dan Hotels. “Bengaluru offers us...

Search and rescue operations are ongoing after an EgyptAir jetliner disappeared from radar and plunged into the Mediterranean sea while carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo early Thursday morning. The plane was in Egyptian airspace at the time, and the country’s officials have indicated that terrorism may have been...

A meeting between the daughter of a prominent ayatollah and a leader of the Bahai faith in Iran this week has provoked outrage among the country’s elite and underscored the religious intolerance of its government, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi...

Iran’s failure to bring its money-laundering and terror finance laws into compliance with international standards has discouraged foreign banks from doing business with the country, according to a senior International Monetary Fund official. David Lipton, a deputy of the IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde, told Bloomberg News while in Tehran...

The regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has promoted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic themes in an effort to distract from the damage it is doing to the country, a former Venezuelan diplomat wrote Wednesday in the New York Daily News. Diego Arria, Venezuela’s former ambassador to the United Nations, cited a recent...