In testimony (.pdf) yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Michael Doran, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, recommended new sanctions against Iran to ensure that the United States has sufficient leverage ahead of the June deadline to conclude negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. Such leverage has been diminished, Doran argued,...

A new initiative to bring post-trauma sport programming to the children of southern Israel is underway. Mifalot, a sport development organization, kicked off the project with the goal to raise $12,000 in funding for the educational programs and to rebuild a soccer field damaged by Hamas rocket fire at which...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Tuesday called for additional sanctions on Iran in the event that efforts for Iran and the P5+1 to reach a framework agreement by March 2015 are unsuccessful. Menendez’s comments, delivered at the Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO council meeting, come just after...

Arab Bank plc, which was found liable this year for hundreds of claims against it for aiding the terrorist organization Hamas, appealed to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to dismiss thousands of new claims. Reuters reports: A lawyer for the Jordan-based bank asked the 2nd U.S....

Turkey’s ratings on “perceived corruption” have increased sharply, according to a new report published by a global watchdog for government transparency. The report identifying the most and least corrupt countries in the world was published Wednesday by Transparency International. It uses a scale on which 100 represents the cleanest states and...

Supermarket chain owner Rami Levy said he will continue employing Arabs in his stores, despite a stabbing attack in one of his stores yesterday. In an interview with Israeli army radio, Levy said: I get requests from extremist elements asking me not to employ Arabs. Occasionally, they are even threatening to...

New details are emerging about the report released yesterday by the American cyber security firm Cylance, concerning Iran’s aggressive global cyber-attacks. Cylance has dubbed the Iranian campaign “Operation Cleaver.” Computerworld reports: The attackers used publicly available attack tools and exploits, as well as specialized malware programs they created themselves. Cylance believes...

Yesterday evening the United States House of Representatives unanimously passed the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014. The Times of Israel reports: The legislation deepens US-Israeli cooperation on defense and energy, and expresses “the sense of Congress that Israel is a major strategic partner of the United States.” In addition,...

In a country already boasting the honor of having the most museums per capita in the world, the opening of the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and Heritage (AMOCAH) in the Galilee is nonetheless eliciting great excitement. The new museum – set to open its doors on December 13 –...

The House of Representatives is currently set to vote on the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014, which was passed unanimously by the Senate in September. The Senate’s bill was sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and Roy Blunt (R- Mo.). The Times of Israel reports on some of the...