Preserved remains of a prehistoric submerged village off the coast of Haifa yields amazing archaeological finds. A water well that may be the oldest wooden structure ever found, and the oldest evidence of an ancient olive-oil industry, are among the preserved remains of a prehistoric village discovered underwater by Israeli...

The United States on Monday signaled that it would oppose unilateral Palestinian efforts at the United Nations, with State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke telling reporters that a new draft Palestinian proposal “fails to account for Israel’s legitimate security needs, and the satisfaction of those needs, of course, integral to a sustainable settlement.”...

The state of Christians in the Middle East is becoming an “existential struggle,” according to an analysis published in The Jerusalem Post Sunday, written by Ben Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Weinthal quotes a number of experts about the plight of Christian communities in the...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan boasted that his nation has the “world’s freest press” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Saturday. “Nowhere in the world is the press freer than it is in Turkey. I’m very sure of myself when I say this,” he said in a televised speech to a conference in...

Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who is in the middle of a nine day trip to Israel, met yesterday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN reports: The meeting was part of a busy day in Israel for Pence, which included stops at a Holocaust memorial and a meeting with the Israeli...

By going to the United Nations Security Council with a resolution this week to force terms of peace deal on Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is “insisting on failure” an unsigned editorial in The Washington Post observed today. The editorial observed that Abbas, having refused to accept an American sponsored...

A reciprocal purchasing agreement worth $550 million was recently signed between the Industrial Cooperation Authority at the Israeli Ministry of Economy and the Intel Corporation, bringing the scope of the chip manufacturer’s investments in Israel to over $6 billion since 2006. The new agreement which runs through 2020, is the...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ latest threat to submit a resolution to the United Nations Security Council imposing a peace deal on Israel has reportedly been rebuffed by Secretary of State John Kerry, according to a report today in The Times of Israel. Abbas called Kerry Sunday night to inform...

An Israeli girl remains in serious condition following an attack in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown into her family’s car in the West Bank Thursday evening, hours before a terrorist in Jerusalem stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers. IDF forces on Friday arrested a dozen Palestinians in connection...

Iran holds the “largest military exercise in its history,” or at least that was what Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadan TV channel reported on December 25. The ongoing week-long According to Al Mayadan, a Hezbollah-affiliated television station, Iran held the “largest military exercise in its history,” Ynet reported Thursday. The exercise, which has been...