In an interview on Howard Stern’s radio show, actor and comedian Adam Sandler described himself as a firm supporter of Israel and condemned celebrities who boycott the Jewish state. The two stars, who began their talk earlier this week by reconciling over Stern’s past criticisms of Sandler, found common ground in...

A group of pilots from the Royal Jordanian Air Force recently paid a “working visit” to Israel, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. News of this working visit comes after a report last month that Israeli and Jordanian pilots both participated in the American-sponsored Blue Flag military exercises this past summer. There were also reports...

A bill that seeks to impose mandatory sanctions on banks that knowingly conduct business with Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group, passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 425 – 0 on Wednesday, The Hill reported. The proposed legislation is now heading to the White House, where President Barack...

The recent vote to close the International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s illicit nuclear work prompted Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Islamic Republic’s chief nuclear negotiator and foreign minister, to boast that the “fabricated problem” of Iran’s military nuclear program had come to an end. “Despite its pitfalls,” Zarif said, “the...

Two German-born men of Palestinian descent have been charged with plotting to bomb a synagogue and the Israeli embassy in Berlin, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported Wednesday in The Jerusalem Post. The suspects were accused of “planning a massive act of violence”...

A ruling delivered by a European court last week on a trade deal between the European Union and Morocco undermines the legal basis behind the EU’s recently implemented labeling guidelines on Israeli goods produced beyond the 1949 armistice lines, international law expert Eugene Kontorovich wrote on the Walla news site (Hebrew link) on Wednesday. Kontorovich explained...

A recent public opinion poll revealed that two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks against Israelis, while 54% oppose a two-state solution, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. In the survey, consisting of 1397 adults throughout the West Bank and Gaza, 67 percent of respondents said they supported the use of knife terror attacks...

Recent reports that Iran is supporting ISIS through its funding of Hamas are a reminder that the Islamic Republic has long backed the powerful jihadist group and its predecessors in a variety of ways. In 2012, the United States Treasury Department exposed the extensive financial ties between Iran and al-Qaeda...

As much as one third of Hezbollah’s fighting force has been killed or injured fighting in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Avi Issacharoff reported Tuesday in The Times of Israel. According to Issacharoff, Israeli sources estimate that between 1,300 to 1,500 members of the Iran-backed terrorist group have been...

The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted unanimously to close the watchdog group’s investigation into Iran’s past nuclear research on Tuesday, the same day it was revealed that the United Nations Council of Experts found Iran to be in violation of a Security Council resolution, the...