The Times of Israel last week published a feature on The Israel Project (TIP), highlighting the organization’s work on pro-Israel messaging and its impact on the “war of ideas” being waged in traditional and social media outlets. TIP publishes The Tower. The article describes TIP, led by its President &...

Senator Robert Menendez (D – N.J.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pushed back today against the White House’s claims that Congressional action could derail negotiations with Iran over its illicit nuclear program. In his State of the Union speech last night, President Barack Obama claimed that...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation by House Speaker John Boehner (R – Ohio) to speak before a joint session of Congress, Politico reported today. “You may have seen that on Friday, the president warned us not to move ahead with sanctions on Iran, a state sponsor of terror,”...

Hamas, which exerts strict control over the Gaza Strip, allowed a public demonstration in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to take place on the streets of Gaza Monday. The rally was to back the radical Islamist groups and to support the recent terror attacks in France....

At least 12 people were wounded Wednesday morning, four of them seriously, when a Palestinian from the West Bank suddenly drew a knife and started stabbing people on a crowded passenger bus during Tel Aviv’s morning rush hour, Ynet reported. At roughly 7:15 am a terrorist boarded Dan Line 40...

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels have launched an attack on the American-supported government of Yemen that, according to a report in The Washington Post, will leave the president of that beleaguered nation politically “badly weakened.” The coup-style strikes by the Houthi rebel faction — believed backed by Iran — marked a major setback...

The Egyptian government is trying to rehabilitate the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which was deposed from power in July 2013. However, these attempts so far have been met with a stubborn refusal from the Brotherhood, the Arab21 news site reported (Arabic link). Sources in the Muslim Brotherhood said that there were several...

Before leaving Israel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to cooperate with the Jewish state to fight terror, The Japan Times reported yesterday: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to work together to enhance anti-terrorism measures as they held talks Sunday in Jerusalem, Japanese officials said....

Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that Iran plans to maintain its naval presence in international waters, especially the Gulf of Aden and the northern Indian Ocean, Farsnews reported Tuesday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy has deployed in the North of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden...

Shiite Houthi fighters backed by Iran clashed this week with Yemeni army soldiers near the president’s residence in the capital Sanaa. Tehran’s involvement in Yemen’s internal conflict continues to contribute to the chaos that is worrying governments across the region. Gunfire was heard across the city and rebels stormed houses adjacent to the...