A Republican and a Democrat from the House Armed Services Committee introduced a resolution on Monday calling on the Obama administration to continue the twenty-plus-year American policy of vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolution that unilaterally tries to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict instead of encouraging bilateral negotiations. The resolution,...

The head of Iran’s elite Quds Force visited Russia on Thursday in defiance of the international travel ban imposed on him. This is the third time that Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani violated the ban, having visited Moscow in July and September of last year as well. He reportedly arrived on a private...

The Israeli military has uncovered a tunnel built by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas that breaches into Israeli territory, Haaretz reported on Monday. It is the first such tunnel discovered inside Israel since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, when the Israel Defense Forces destroyed over 30 Hamas tunnels, 14 of which extended into Israel. The tunnel was...

The governor of Iran’s central bank warned that if the United States doesn’t facilitate Iran’s reintegration into the international financial system, the nuclear deal will “[break] up under its own terms,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Valiollah Seif made his remarks in a 90-minute presentation in Washington, which this week...

The agriculture industry is the world’s largest consumer of water, accounting for approximately 70% of the global freshwater supply. Much of that irrigation water is lost due to wasteful and unsustainable farming methods, which strain limited water resources in the face of growing demand. Israeli hydraulic engineer Simcha Blass, confronted with...

JNS.org – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of Columbia, Lamberth is no stranger to the Iranian-backed terrorism that cost Alberto Nisman his life as he investigated Tehran’s...

A summit of over 50 Muslim countries criticized Iran on Friday for supporting terrorism and interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbors. The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which concluded its meeting in Istanbul on Friday, stated as part of its final communique that it “deplored Iran’s interference in the internal affairs of...

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (D – Vt.)  suspended his national Jewish outreach coordinator following the revelation that she had posted vulgar remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on social media, The New York Times reported on Friday. The suspension of Simone Zimmerman pending an investigation, just two days...

Water chillers – essentially giant refrigerators that cool large buildings – consume a high percentage of all the electricity used in air-conditioning systems of commercial and industrial buildings. That’s not only a major environmental load, but a financial one as well. The annual cost of cooling the Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv City...

394 members of the House of Representatives—90 percent of the total—have signed a letter urging President Barack Obama “not to back any resolution at the United Nations that sets parameters for Israeli-Palestinian talks.” In the letter, the members of Congress declared they are “deeply troubled by reports that one-sided initiatives may arise...