A poll conducted by the influential magazine Condé Nast Traveler ranked Jerusalem’s newly refurbished Waldorf-Astoria hotel as the top hotel in the Middle East and the seventh-best in the world, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Over 128,000 readers took part in the survey. “What an honor! We are thrilled,” the hotel responded on its...

The United Nations has taken disciplinary action against at least 22 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) who used social media to promote anti-Semitism, the watchdog organization UN Watch reported Thursday. The employees’ misconduct was initially exposed in reports published by the watchdog organization in September and...

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old from Texas who became known as the “Clock Kid” after he was arrested for bringing a clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, will be moving with his family to Qatar, the BBC reported Wednesday. Ahmed has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation for...

More than 150 British artists, including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, have signed a public letter opposing boycott campaigns against Israel. The group, which also includes Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel and noted historian and BBC presenter Simon Schama, wrote an op-ed in The Guardian criticizing an earlier effort by British artists to refuse...

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy argued that the current wave of Palestinian terror, rather than being unique to Israel, bears “more resemblance to the latest installment of a worldwide jihad” inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in an opinion piece published yesterday in The Algemeiner. It is highly doubtful...

Eleven Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Ben Cardin (D – Md.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.), sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of State John Kerry expressing their concern over Iran’s recent test launch of a ballistic missile. We are writing to express our profound concern about Iran’s...

An influential Iranian politician has claimed that Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who was recently convicted of espionage in an Iranian court, conspired with the United States to topple the Iranian government. The New York Times reported more on Tuesday: The thrust of the accusations made by [Javad] Karimi-Qoddusi, a member of Parliament’s National Security...

Recent news has renewed interest in Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem and founder of Palestinian nationalism, and has also shined a spotlight on the ties between Palestinian nationalism and Nazism. Here is what you need to know: 1) Husseini used the “Temple Mount libel” to drive the 1929 Arab massacre of Jews...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has conditioned acceptance of the nuclear deal on Iran being exempted from consequences of its ongoing support for international terrorism, human rights abuses, and nuclear cheating, CNN reported today. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s official website carries a letter from the Supreme Leader to Iranian President...

MobileODT, a company that uses mobile phones to detect cancer and other diseases, is this year’s winner of the 2015 MedTech Innovator competition. The Israeli startup beat out 300 early medtech startups from around the world to receive a $200,000 prize. The MedTech winners were announced at the AdvaMed 2015 conference in San Diego,...