More people were able to read and write Hebrew during the First Temple period (around 600 BCE) in what is now Israel than was previously believed, a new study has surmised. An analysis published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used a combination of archaeology, Jewish history, and computer...

Florida’s recently signed law against anti-Israel boycotts is a “major blow against anti-Israel bigotry and discrimination,” The Israel Project’s CEO and President Josh Block wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Orlando Sun Sentinel. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. The legislation, SB 86, restricts the state from investing in companies...

On the heels of Air France’s announcement that female cabin crew could opt out of flights to Iran when the airline resumes the route later this month, gay stewards are requesting that same right. In a petition addressed to both Air France CEO Frédéric Cagey and French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies, the stewards asked that gay staff be exempt...

The 2016 U.S. Universities Debating Championship, which took place at Morehouse College in Atlanta over the weekend, was marred by controversy after one of the propositions to be debated was revealed to be “This House Believes That Palestinian Violence Against Israeli Civilians Is Justified,” a decision that led to some participants to walk out....

Showbox wants to be the Wix of video editing. Like fellow Israeli startup Wix, which allows users to drag and drop images and text to build a free website, Showbox brings a similar simplicity to online video. Showbox CMO Tomer Afek likens his company’s product to LEGO – just snap...

Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rejected the idea of having the United Nations impose a peace deal on Israel and the Palestinians in an interview published Monday in the New York Jewish Week. Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the Jewish week, wrote that the positions Clinton shared in the interview...

A majority of faculty members at Oberlin College have signed a letter condemning a colleague’s anti-Semitic social media posts. Joy Karega, an assistant professor at Oberlin, has been heavily criticized since The Tower disclosed her Facebook posts in February. “When the anti-Semitic Facebook posts by one of our colleagues came to light, many of us on...

Giving Iran access to U.S. dollars in order to boost its international business profile would erode diplomatic leverage against the Islamic Republic and jeopardize the international banking system, experts said in a conference call with the Foreign Policy Initiative last week. Mark Dubowitz and Eric Lorber, respectively the executive director and senior advisor of the Foundation...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has rebuffed Secretary of State John Kerry’s call for Iran to negotiate a “new arrangement” governing its ballistic missile program. Making his remarks in Tehran at a joint press conference with Estonia’s foreign minister on Sunday, Zarif rejected any form of negotiation or compromise. Zarif claimed that the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday of ongoing efforts to incite tensions on the Temple Mount ahead of Passover. In his weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said that Raed Salah, the leader of the recently banned Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was seeking to reignite tensions at the...