Decrying “resurgent” anti-Semitism globally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that modern anti-Semitism primarily targets Israel at the fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of...

As President Barack Obama is making his case for a nuclear deal with Iran, a former Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, is arguing that the deal will have the opposite effect of what the president intends by “open[ing] the door” to nuclear proliferation, The New York Times reported today. “Whatever...

Five Iranian naval vessels fired on a Singapore-flagged cargo ship sailing through the Straits of Hormuz CNN reported today, citing a U.S. official. It is not yet clear if any of the rounds hit the Alpine Eternity. There were no U.S. citizens or cargo on board. The Pentagon is still gathering...

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, said that Moscow would not support the automatic snapping back of sanctions, mentioned by the Obama administration as a central enforcement mechanism of the emerging nuclear deal with Iran to counter possible violations, Bloomberg News reported today. “There can be no automaticity,...

The former American ambassador to Syria said that last week’s discovery of traces of chemical weapons in that country shows that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is in violation of the Russian-sponsored agreement, and a related United Nations Security Council Resolution, to rid Syria of chemical weapons, Josh Rogin reported today...

A new Tel Aviv University study shows how the complex process of crystallization through supercooling could revolutionize the delivery of drugs in the human body, providing a way to “freeze” the drugs at an optimal time and location in the body. The new study, published in Scientific Reports, is the...

An Iranian spokesman rejected calls made Wednesday by Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that Iran open up military sites for inspection, Iran’s semi-official news agency PressTV reported, saying that the demand was an inaccurate interpretation of the “additional protocol” of the nuclear deal made...

The number of demonstrations protesting the state of the Iranian economy doubled in the last month, even as the Islamic Republic continues its massive spending on military and nuclear infrastructure. For the first time since the Green Revolution, the 2009 democratic protests that were violently crushed, opposition activists are now...

An Iranian general threatened that any attempt to blockade a ship headed to Yemen “will spark war,” The Times of Israel reported today. Iran claims that the ship, the Shahed, is headed to Yemen to provide what humanitarian aid. Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier-General Massoud Jazzayeri warned that any attack on...

The incoming Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally presented its government coalition guidelines, which explicitly reaffirmed its commitment to pursue a peace process with the Palestinians. Agence France-Presse (AFP) translated the relevant text: “The government will advance the diplomatic process and strive to reach a peace agreement...