The United States has a strategic interest in ending the ban on exporting crude oil, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley wrote in an op-ed (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday. Panetta and Hadley explained that the law banning the export of American...

Professor Rivka Carmi, President of Ben-Gurion University, is set to be honored by Queen Elizabeth II for her work in deepening scientific and academic relations between the UK and Israel. Carmi, the first woman to serve as president of an Israeli university, will receive the honorary title Commander of the Most Excellent...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly ruled out international inspections of military sites or interviews with nuclear scientists, two measures that would be necessary for a deal to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Reuters reported today: The comments, broadcast live on state TV, were the latest in a...

Iranian Holocaust denial, which echoes Nazi rhetoric, exposes an intent “to [repeat] that same crime,” Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), argued in an article published Monday in Tablet Magazine. Ottolenghi rejected claims that it is misguided to associate Iran with Nazi Germany. After the war,...

The captain of an Iranian aid ship, which is being escorted by two Iranian warships to Yemen, said that he will dock in Djibouti and submit to a United Nations inspection, Reuters reported today. The decision delays a confrontation with Saudi Arabia, which is blockading Yemen. Earlier in the day, the Iran Shahed’s captain...

Israel informed American authorities of an Iranian airline’s efforts to buy Airbus jets, in violation of American sanctions, but the U.S. didn’t prevent the purchase, Reuters reported today. “Israel learned from intelligence sources about this very significant breach of the sanctions in advance of it occurring,” the Israeli official, speaking on condition...

Thousands of Gazans receive treatment in Israeli hospitals every year, the Associated Press (AP) reported yesterday. According to the report, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit (COGAT) has issued roughly 27,000 permits for Gaza residents—including both patients and their families—to receive medical treatment in Israel and elsewhere. According to the...

It was with deep sadness that I learned last night of the passing of my dear friend and teacher, Professor Robert Wistrich, at the age of 70. Robert was the world’s foremost scholar of anti-Semitism. Based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he headed the Vidal Sassoon International Center for...

After a unanimous vote Monday by the Illinois House of Representatives to pass a bill prohibiting the state from investing its pension funds in companies that boycott Israel, Prof. Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern University wrote in an analysis for The Washington Post that the significance of the bill’s passage “cannot be underestimated.” European countries have in...

Hackers use “spear phishing” to acquire usernames, passwords and credit-card details. They target specific individuals within an organization, using information available on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, or stolen from an acquaintance of the target, to create messages that appear real. The answer to the spear phishing scourge,...