The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a paramilitary group run by the terrorist organization Hamas, announced the opening of military youth camps throughout the Gaza Strip under the name “Pioneers of Independence.” The Al-Qassam Brigades’ Twitter account issued a statement (Arabic link) declaring that the camps are designated for youth aged 15-21. The camps...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has claimed that if the Jews leave France, France “will be judged a failure.” Valls made those remarks in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic on Saturday. The choice was made by the French Revolution in 1789 to recognize Jews as full citizens,” Valls told me....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday was among the fifty-six world leaders who joined an estimated 3.7 million people in the largest gathering in French history in a show of unity in the aftermath of last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left seventeen people dead. Bloomberg News reports: Thousands of...

Gaza reconstruction has once again been put on hold has the Palestinian Authority (PA) is unwilling to release funds for that purpose until it has full control of Gaza The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Following a rare government meeting in Gaza Tuesday, the government of Rami Hamdallah said Wednesday...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman condemned the deadly attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but called the magazine’s irreverent style of satire a form of extremism. Iran’s semi-official Press TV reported that spokeswoman, Marziye Afham, called “any terrorist action against innocent people as being against Islam’s teachings.” However Afham also implicitly condemned...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett will fly to France tomorrow to attend a rally in memory of the seventeen victims of terror last week in Paris. On Wednesday, 12 people were killed in a terror attack targeting satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo....

Five new Israeli-US academic projects in a variety of fields were recently given the go-ahead for joint collaboration between faculty and research scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The joint research proposals are to focus on self-sustained agriculture, spinal cord...

Turkey’s top diplomat on Wednesday said that Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal was free to come to Turkey, following conflicting reports earlier this week that Meshaal was forced out of Qatar, where he has lived for several years. The reports, first published Monday, indicated that the Hamas leader, along with several...

French police stormed two hostage situations simultaneously in and near Paris today, killing three terrorists, including the Kouachi brothers, the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre on Wednesday. But at least four hostages were killed after a standoff at a kosher supermarket in the eastern part of Paris. Said and Cherif Kouachi had taken over a...

After eight of its staffers were massacred Wednesday by terrorists, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo will publish one million copies of its next edition, Bloomberg News reported today. In what would be an act to show that “we can’t let them win,” the weekly will publish with the help of...