In the first-ever visit by a Singaporean prime minister to Israel, the city-state’s current premier thanked Israel for “[helping] us and [standing] by us at our time of great need,” The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made his remarks as he received an honorary doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem....

The Swedish Minister of Housing and Urban Development resigned on Monday after reporters discovered old footage of him comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. Mehmet Kaplan, a member of the Green Party, a junior partner in Sweden’s governing coalition, said in 2009 that there were “similarities” between what Palestinians experience now and what Jews lived through...

Arab and Muslim countries have only delivered a small fraction of what they pledged to give for the reconstruction of Gaza after the 2014 conflict between Hamas and Israel, the World Bank stated Monday. Countries pledged to donate a combined $3.5 billion over three years at a conference in Cairo in October 2014. But as of...

Iranians “to a large extent have themselves to blame” for their economic difficulties because of their country’s corrupt financial system and support for terrorism, The New York Times editorial board wrote on Monday. While Iran has largely complied with the nuclear-related aspects of the deal it reached with global powers last year, leading...

The recent acceptance of Israel’s maritime rights by Saudi Arabia as part of a deal between the kingdom and Egypt, though far short of normalization, is still a “ray of light” that gives a boost to the nations opposing Iranian aggression in the Middle East, Eran Lerman and Joshua Teitelbaum wrote in an analysis...

The man accused of kidnapping and murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir two years ago was convicted Tuesday by the Jerusalem District Court. The court found that Yosef Ben David killed Abu Khdeir for nationalistic motives and was cognizant of what he was doing. A statement from the Justice Ministry explained:...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the first-ever cabinet meeting held in the Golan Heights on Sunday that the area will “forever remain” part of Israel. Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six-Day War and extended Israeli law to the area in 1981. Netanyahu said that he...

Palestinian terrorist groups have issued statements celebrating Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, which left 21 people injured. The Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas said in a statement on its website that it “welcomes the Jerusalem operation, and considers it a natural reaction to Israeli crimes, especially field executions and the desecration of...

Israeli volunteers have joined the rescue efforts in Japan and Ecuador following devastating earthquakes that have resulted in hundreds of deaths and widespread damage throughout both countries. The Israeli humanitarian aid organization IsraAID says that its delegation in southern Japan is helping to distribute much-needed supplies in the affected communities....

Israeli authorities have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for a blast in southeast Jerusalem that injured 21 people on Monday, Haaretz reported. The explosion tore through a bus in the city’s Talpiot neighborhood at about 5:45 PM, engulfing it and a nearby bus and car in flames. “Based on a professional investigation by police demolitions...