Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that Iran would not commit to the transparency measures insisted on by the United States until they “see the final text,” Reuters reported today. The United States urged Iran to implement the so-called Additional Protocol, which allows more intrusive access...

Anti-Israel activists have attempted to intimidate South Africa’s Jewish community, “trying to abuse South African history and the South African story for [its] own narrow purposes,” the national director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, told the Algemeiner in an interview published Wednesday. Wendy Kahn also accused anti-Israel activists...

Last month’s unsuccessful attempt by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Israel from FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, is part of a broader anti-Israel campaign being orchestrated by Qatar, according to a paper published Tuesday by Pinhas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Inbari explained that Qatar supports Palestinian Football Association head...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who was in Israel this week, publicly praised the Israeli cybersecurity startup Illusive Networks, after a venture capital firm he partners with invested $5 million in the startup, Entrepreneur magazine reported Tuesday. Illusive Networks raised $5 million in Series A funding from cybersecurity think tank Team 8, which...

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin welcomed a gay youth group and a number of prominent gay personalities to his official residence, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Wearing white emblazoned maroon colored tee-shirts announcing in Hebrew and English across the front “We are everywhere,” a representative group of slightly more than a...

A new demo village in southern Israel’s Arava Desert showcases cutting-edge Israeli solutions for housing, energy, water and agriculture needs of populations out of reach of national water and energy grids in any part of the world. The village, built in the environmentally forward Kibbutz Ketura ahead of last December’s...

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the emerging nuclear deal with Iran as “wishful thinking” in his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Fox New reported: “It is clear that the nuclear deal is not a permanent fix but merely a placeholder,” he...

The Obama administration is poised to redefine many terror and human rights sanctions imposed on Iran as nuclear-related sanctions, with an eye towards lifting them and providing a greater boost to Iran’s economy as part of an emerging nuclear deal, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. According to anonymous officials quoted...

The United States is planning to send 400 military trainers to Iraq’s Anbar Province to help Iraqis, especially Sunni tribes, in their fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Reuters reported today. The U.S. deployment would likely entail around 400 trainers, one U.S. official said, adding an announcement...

Palestinian schoolchildren are taught that all of Israel is “occupied” and that a future state of Palestine will replace Israel, according to a report published today by the NGO Palestinian Media Watch. Palestinian school children are indoctrinated with the message that there is no Israel but only “Palestine.” Young boys at...