Israeli officials have raised their estimate of Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal to 150,000, an increase of 50% from May of this year, Avi Issacharoff reported for The Times of Israel on Thursday. The revised valuation on rockets suggests Hezbollah is ramping up efforts to acquire weapons whose purpose is to attack...

Kurdish troops, aided by Yazidi fighters and backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, have captured a key highway from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as part of their campaign to retake the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq, The New York Times reported Thursday. As many as...

Assi Azar, an openly gay Israeli television star and LGBTQ activist, was heckled and threatened by anti-Israel protesters during an appearance last week at Goucher College in Baltimore, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Azar was screening his 2010 documentary Mom and Dad, I Have Something To Tell You, about Israelis...

In the wake of reports that Iran has stopped dismantling uranium-enriching centrifuges, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D – Md.) released a statement calling on the United States and its partner nations not to tolerate any Iranian violations of the nuclear deal, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday. House Minority Whip Steny...

London Mayor Boris Johnson, in Israel as part of a trade and business delegation, praised the innovations made by the Israeli company Mobileye to help improve road safety in the UK’s biggest and most congested city. “It’s fantastic to see that cutting edge technology, such as Cycle Safety Shield developed by Mobileye in Israel, is...

Republican presidential contender Sen. Marco Rubio (R – Fla.) strongly criticized the European Union’s new guidelines on labeling Israeli goods manufactured in territories beyond the 1949 armistice lines, saying that doing so would “politicize international trade, undermine economic cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians, and reward Palestinians who reject peace with Israel.” In an...

On November 9, the 77th anniversary of the Nazi “Kristallnacht” pogrom, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced on its Facebook page that it was participating in the Million Student March on the 12th to protest tuition increases at the City University of New York (CUNY). This is an important issue...

David Simha, the president of the Israeli-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said on Wednesday that the European Union’s decision to label goods produced by Israeli companies that operate beyond the 1949 armistice lines will most likely hurt the thousands of Palestinians these enterprises employ, rather than have a perceptible effect...

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy has announced a new grant program to woo Israeli entrepreneurs to its tech hubs and increase trade between the two countries. EXIST Startup Germany is offering grants of up to €150,000 ($160,000) to young Israeli entrepreneurs at universities and research institutes who...

Ahmed Shaheed and David Kaye, respectively the UN’s Special Rapporteurs for the human rights situation in Iran and for the right to freedom of opinion and expression, called on Iran to stop intimidating journalists “as the country prepares for parliamentary elections early next year,” in a statement released Wednesday. The statement...