Israeli actress Gal Gadot has revealed how she got the coveted role of Diana Prince, AKA Wonder Woman. Making her Ellen DeGeneres Show debut on Tuesday, Gadot described seeing 30 missed calls on her phone when her flight from Israel to the U.S. landed. Still in her airplane seat, she called her agent and...

Some of the most notorious white supremacist websites have expressed support for Joy Karega, the Oberlin College professor who has come under heavy criticism after her Facebook posts, which contained conspiracy theories that many considered to be anti-Semitic, were revealed by The Tower last month. Karega shared her beliefs that Israel was behind the Charlie Hebdo terrorist...

During an official visit to Moscow on Wednesday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin told Russian President Vladimir Putin that any future agreement on Syria must not strengthen Iran and Hezbollah. According to a Haaretz reporter, Rivlin also said that Israel considers Iranian and Hezbollah outposts on the Israeli-Syrian border to be a red line. “We...

Newly-elected Argentine President Mauricio Macri said that his government is determined to “make headway” into the investigation of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Wednesday. “We are fully committed to contribute in any way we can to make headway with this investigation,”...

Syrian refugee Aboud Dandachi wrote an essay Monday in Tablet in which he expressed gratitude to his “true friends,” including Jewish and Israeli people and organization who have assisted him and other refugees. Dandachi, a former high-tech worker who created a website called Thank You Am Israel, wrote appreciatively that it “is astonishing,...

An atomic clock designed and constructed in Israel will be carried to Jupiter as part of a mission planned by the European Space Agency (ESA). The ESA mission, known as JUICE – JUpiter ICy moons Explorer — will spend at least three years making detailed observations of the solar system’s...

Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove, said at a global anti-Semitism conference in Berlin on Monday that the anti-Israel boycott movement has adopted “methods of apartheid” against Israel by singling out the Jewish state for condemnation. “Israel is dealing with a prejudiced, systematic attack against its existence,” Gove said...

Five years into the Syrian civil war, Qutaiba Idlbi, a native of Damascus, recalled a question he first heard at the onset of the revolution. “Why should we go out to the streets if we know that Assad is going to shoot unarmed people?” Idlbi remembered that question, raised by...

Transgender rights activist and bestselling author Janet Mock has cancelled her scheduled speech at Brown University’s Hillel after coming under criticism from campus pro-Palestinian activists for appearing at the school’s Jewish student center. Mock, an African-American trans woman, was scheduled to speak on Monday at Brown/RISD Hillel as part of...

Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group that controls the Gaza Strip, is “exploiting the humanitarian crisis in the Strip to pad its own coffers,” Times of Israel Palestinian affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff reported on Saturday. A new neighborhood in Gaza consisting of 1,040 housing units, called “Hamad City” in honor of the...