Sen. Mark Kirk (R – Ill.) called for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank over reports that it is hosting the account of an organization that promotes boycotts of Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. “I am alarmed by reports that Commerzbank, a German bank headquartered in Frankfurt...

The Israeli digital health startup Sweetch has received a $3.5 million Series A financing round to help it develop technology to prevent people who are at risk for diabetes from developing the disease. More than 86 million adults in the U.S. and 63 million more in Europe have a blood-sugar level...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ignored a request to grant a trial to an Iranian opposition leader and reformer who has been held under house arrest since the contested 2009 presidential elections, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Rouhani, who assumed office in 2013, has been called a reformer and previously...

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League has criticized the organizers of the U.S. Universities Debating Championship, which took place in Atlanta last weekend, for making student competitors debate the motion “This House Believes That Violence By Palestinians Against Israeli Civilian Targets Is Justified.” 1/3 Pained by #USUDC debate on killing Israeli civilians. Would...

By failing to take a stand against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian leaders have “lost the Arab depth, their credibility and their narrative,” Hanin Ghaddar, the editor of the Lebanese news site NOW, wrote in a commentary Thursday. Ghaddar observed that Assad and Hezbollah, both of which are backed...

Jamal Hakrush was appointed deputy commissioner of Israel’s national police, the first Muslim to be appointed to the force’s second-highest rank, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich praised Hakrush at his initiation ceremony, and called for more Arabs to join the police force. Hakrush, a native of...

President Barack Obama has been “making one concession after another in response to Iran’s post-deal demands” in order to keep last summer’s announced nuclear agreement alive, former Clinton White House official Lawrence J. Haass wrote in an op-ed in the U.S. News and World Report on Tuesday. America’s concessions on ballistic missiles and access...

The Iran-backed Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad held parliamentary elections in areas under its control on Wednesday, a move that Western nations and the Syrian opposition said undermined negotiations for a political solution to the conflict and will likely result in a rubber-stamp legislature in favor of Assad. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Mark...

If Bashar al-Assad and senior members of the Syrian leadership are ever captured and brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and charged with war crimes, the evidence being gathered by an obscure investigative agency could be crucial to establishing their guilt. In the newest issue of The New Yorker, Ben Taub documented the efforts of the Commission...

An Iranian helicopter pilot who defected to Turkey last year has threatened to move to Israel and work against the Iranian government if it does not stop harassing his wife and son, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Maj. Ahmad-Reza Khosravi, who flew for the Iranian Security Service, told the Times that he fled Iran after...