At least twenty members of a cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were arrested “on suspicion of forming a military wing and planning to smuggle arms into the West Bank,” according to a report today in The Times of Israel. The men, all members of the Muslim Brotherhood or...

Israel appears to be heading for elections after talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid Monday night failed to conclude with an agreement. The talks were meant to address the crisis threatening the fragile coalition, Ynet news reported. Talks broke down late Monday after Lapid, chairman of the Yesh...

Israel has signed a deal with the World Bank to join the bank’s “Global Practices” program according a report today in The Times of Israel. The Times reports: Under the agreement, which was signed on the Israeli side by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, Israel will develop training courses in coordination...

Matthew and Grace Huang, an American couple in Qatar who were convicted of killing their adopted daughter before having the verdict overturned on appeal, were prevented from leaving the Gulf kingdom yesterday. The New York Times reports: But the joy and relief expressed by the couple, Matthew and Grace Huang of Los Angeles,...

In response to a growing list of casualties in Syria and a significant decrease in funding by Iran, the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah has expanded its involvement in illegal businesses including arms and drug trafficking. According to a media investigation by conducted the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan (Arabic link), several senior...

In an account published yesterday in The Atlantic, former reporter for the Associated Press (AP) Matti Friedman explains how bias develops and influences international reporting from Israel. Friedman identifies both news agencies and NGO’s as effectively complicit in advancing the Hamas media strategy in particular and anti-Israel narrative bias more broadly. He notes:...

A growing number of Palestinian youths are trying to flee from the Gaza Strip into Israel, despite risk of injury or arrest, the Arab news portal “24” reported (Arabic link). At least 12 such cases have occurred during the past two weeks. One youth was identified as Mahmoud Saleh, a...

Continuing his contentious approach towards Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Saturday of promoting an “apartheid” government instead of working to advance the peace process. “We will never recognize the Jewishness of the state of Israel,” he said (Arabic link). Addressing a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers...

In a case that has dragged for years in a trial dubbed as the “trial of the century” by local media, a Cairo court on the weekend acquitted on former President Hosni Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. The Cairo Criminal...

Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett has launched the flagship “Water City” project in China, which will help open the Chinese market to Israeli water companies as well as advance bilateral relations. The city of Shougang in the Shandong province was chosen as the focus of Israel’s water-related activities in...