Sand Storm (Sufat chol), the first feature by Israeli director Elite Zexer, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, over the weekend. The film—about Bedouin traditions in the face of modernity—was bought and will be distributed by Beta Cinema. The film was heavily...

An ongoing investigation into a “massive” international drug trafficking and money laundering operation run by the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah has resulted in several arrests, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced in a statement released on Monday. The DEA, a division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the arrests...

Critics took to Twitter to blast Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland and currently the United Kingdom’s representative to the European Commission, for saying that it was “inappropriate” for Israel to criticize Europe’s welcome of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a Holocaust commemoration event. Salmond, who recently returned from...

The Palestinian Authority’s police force praised an officer who carried out a shooting attack that wounded three Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint near Beit El on Sunday. “With great pride, the members of the Palestinian police eulogize the brave martyrdom of their colleague, Master Sergeant Amjad Sukkari, ‘Abu Omar’,...

The commander of Iran’s elite extraterritorial navy proclaimed in a session at the Iranian parliament Monday that his forces “extracted a lot of information from the confiscated cell phones and laptops” from U.S. Navy sailors it detained last month. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) navy, said that...

An Israeli minister gave an interview to a Saudi online newspaper over the weekend, underscoring the warming ties between Israel and the Arab world in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal last year. Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption Ze’ev Elkin told a reporter from the Saudi website Elaph that Israel and the...

Experts blasted a major German newspaper’s recent usage of Nazi-like terminology to blame Israel for Palestinian terrorist attacks, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s largest broadsheet, recently published an article titled “Israel suffers for its cycle of revenge” by its Jerusalem correspondent Peter Münch. The...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei awarded medals to five Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval commanders for seizing ten American sailors earlier this month, Reuters reported on Sunday. Khamenei presented the Fath or Victory medals to the head of the IRGC Navy, Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, and four other...

A Palestinian girl from Nablus with a rare medical condition underwent lifesaving surgery at Rambam hospital in Haifa last week, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. Jummana, 17, suffered from hypophosphatemia, a dangerous condition caused by low phosphate levels that led to extreme pain in her bones. Her treatment was facilitated by...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed in his weekly sermon on Friday that his terror organization was preparing for future conflicts with Israel, as analysts continue to note the group’s buildup of infrastructure in anticipation of a possible war. In his speech, which eulogized seven terrorists who died when a tunnel...