South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed into law a measure prohibiting the state from doing business with any firm that boycotts Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The bill makes no mention of Israel directly, but prevents public entities from contracting with businesses engaging in the “boycott of a person or an...

Iran continues to develop ballistic missile technology that can be used for nuclear weapons, despite the ongoing P5+1 talks over its nuclear program, according to a Pentagon report (.pdf) released to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Bloomberg Business reported Wednesday. The current nuclear talks, with a deadline of June 30, don’t address Iran’s missile...

A retired ambassador with multiple postings in the Middle East warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that Iran remained a threat to destabilize the region and that a nuclear agreement would not signal “a change of heart about its ultimate hegemonic goals.” Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post reported on the...

Representatives of the Israeli government and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia met publicly in Washington D.C. to discuss their governments’ shared concern about the threat posed by Iran, The New York Times reported Thursday. A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi Arabia and Israel was on display on Thursday as...

In an essay published Wednesday in the Times of Israel, Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz stated that President Barack Obama does not understand the concerns of the Israeli people, despite Obama’s claims to the contrary. Horovitz stated that he endorses “every word” Obama has said about resolving the conflict with the...

An Israeli company, Bidalgo, has developed a system of personalizing advertising on Facebook, and expects to reach as much $100 million in revenue this year, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported today. According to co-founder and CTO Niv Yemini, Bidalgo has developed algorithms to determine the most effective message to each...

A Swedish parliamentary committee claimed that the country’s recognition of Palestine last year violated the nation’s constitution, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Riksdag’s Committee on the Constitution published its annual paper [Swedish], which lists several instances in which the center-left government of Prime Minister Stefan Loefven...

Administration officials have spent the last two days attacking a Tuesday report in The New York Times that Iran’s stockpile of low enriched uranium (LEU) is now 20% greater than when it signed the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) in November 2013. The Times article noted that the growth of that stockpile contradicted the...

Israel has “hard evidence” that Iran conducted weaponization work as part of their nuclear research, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon told The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth in a wide-ranging interview published on Tuesday. Ya’alon made this revelation while discussing Iran’s refusal to allow inspections of military sites as part of any nuclear deal. He also explained the...

Qatar’s stock market has taken a hit in the wake of the ongoing criminal investigations into FIFA and the resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter, which has thrown doubt on Qatar’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) today. Tuesday’s decision by Mr. Blatter—the biggest champion...