Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Israel Wednesday to inaugurate Apple’s new R&D Center in Herzliya and meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, The Times of Israel reported. “It is a great privilege to host you and your team here in Israel,” Rivlin told Cook. “Even for me, as one who...

Palestinian activists, including officials of the Fatah party, have given store owners 48 hours to remove Israeli products from their shelves in an effort to enforce a boycott imposed on Israeli products by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas two weeks ago, Ynet reported yesterday. The group moved in and out...

Reuters reported on Tuesday about the significant role Iran has in arming, training, and commanding Shiite militias in Iraq. A secret branch of the Iraqi government known as the Popular Mobilization Committee (“Hashid Shaabi” in Arabic) serves as an umbrella group for Shiite paramilitary organizations. The group is run by Abu...

The United States Senate yesterday introduced a resolution authored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D – N.J.) condemning the rise of European anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported. The bipartisan measure was co-sponsored by 52 other senators. The resolution notes that “an alarming increase in anti-Semitic attacks and incidents targeting Jewish...

When a visiting New York mental-health counseling student asked residents of Gaza border communities why they stay despite the constant threat of missile attack, they answered in one word: Home. “It struck me that they said ‘This is my home and I don’t want to leave.’ After 9/11, we saw...

The recent terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen have brought the need to understand the phenomenon of rising anti-Semitism in Europe just seventy years after the Holocaust into sharper focus. Two reports published this month covering anti-Semitism in Britain during the past year note the contribution of media coverage of events in...

Former Democratic Representative Shelley Berkley argued in an op-ed on Sunday that by failing to oppose Iranian aggression the Obama administration is “undermining bipartisan support for Israel, and the values of the Democratic Party.” Berkley’s protest isn’t limited to the course of the current nuclear negotiations with Iran, but evaluates a more...

According to a report Monday by the Associated Press (AP), in the final years of an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, restrictions and verification measures would be lifted to “allow it [Iran] to slowly ramp up activities that could be used to make nuclear arms over the last...

The latest Gallup poll surveying American attitudes towards Israel was released Monday and reveals that 70% of Americans view Israel favorably. Gallup placed these numbers in context of previous polling, noting: These attitudes, from Gallup’s Feb. 8-11 World Affairs survey, are unchanged from a year ago, suggesting that neither the...

Claiming “to ensure the stable security of the region,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out war games in the Persian Gulf that included the sinking of a model of an American aircraft carrier, Reuters reported today. The Shi’ite Muslim Islamic Republic sees the Gulf, between Iran and the...