The world’s interest in reaching a nuclear deal with Iran has compelled it to ignore the regime’s extensive human rights abuses, leaving its many “political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic minorities with little hope of any respite,” Rahim Hamid wrote in The Telegraph on Tuesday. Hamid is a member...

During his first official visit to Australia this week, Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Economy Avi Hasson signed a research-and-development agreement with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. With branches in New Zealand, Fiji, across Asia, the US and Britain, Commonwealth Bank is the first Australian member of a...

Payam Feili, an openly gay Iranian poet who faced intense persecution in his country over his sexual orientation and political views, arrived in Israel this Sunday to promote the Hebrew translation of his book Three Reasons and attend the premier of a play based on the work, The Times of...

Emerging details suggest that Wednesday’s mass-shooting attack in San Bernardino may have been an extensive terror plot. Gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and injured at least 17 more after storming a social services center, had been in contact with “more than...

“I don’t want to be an icon,” says Shachar Rabinovitz. But in the space of a few days this week, the 13-year-old has already started to become a poster girl of sorts. She’s siting on her sofa, shell-shocked at the international media frenzy that has taken place this week. On...

Israel’s internal security agency announced the arrest of several Jewish suspects due to “concrete suspicions” that they were involved in the July firebombing of a Palestinian home that left a toddler and his parents dead, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The arson attack occurred in July in the West Bank...

The motives behind a mass-shooting attack that left 14 dead and 17 injured in San Bernardino on Wednesday remain unclear, The New York Times reported. The attackers, identified as Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married or engaged couple, were killed during a confrontation with police. A third person...

Iran’s attempt to advance a military nuclear program from the late 1980s is at the heart of its decades-long violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Its secret work on the development of a nuclear bomb encapsulates the deceptive behavior that lost Iran the trust of the international community, and...

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s nuclear history failed to address fundamental questions about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, arms control experts at the Institute for Science and International Security argued in a report issued Wednesday. • Despite obfuscation and stonewalling by Iran, the IAEA confirmed that Iran...

In addition to demonstrating “moral myopia and academic perversity,” boycotts of Israel by academic associations are often in violation of the groups’ very own charters, Eugene Kontorovich and Steven Davidoff Solomon argued in an op-ed (Google link) published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Kontorovich and Solomon, respectively professors of law...