A poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research was published yesterday, revealing a marked decline in support for Hamas, particularly in the West Bank. Ha’aretz reports: Some 39 percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Hamas if parliamentary elections were held today, compared to 46 percent one month...

The dream of every startup is to foresee and capitalize on revolutionary trends, and the video technology company Kaltura has been doing just that. Founded in 2006 by Israeli serial entrepreneurs Ron Yekutiel, Shay David, Michal Tsur and Eran Etam, Kaltura was listed by Forbes last June as one of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York Monday evening, marking the first time in more than a decade that prime ministers of the two countries met. The Times of Israel reports: […] India is also one of Israel’s most important trade partners in the...

In a speech today before the United Nations General Assembly (embedded below), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified the greatest threat to the world as “militant Islam” and argued that the threat Israel faces from Hamas is the same that the rest of the region and the world faces from...

After committing several violations earlier this month while blocking a display set up by the Jewish student organization Hillel, Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended last week from all on-campus activities at Loyola University Chicago. The Brandeis Center praised the university’s action: This afternoon, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human...

The State Department on Friday harshly condemned a speech given earlier that day by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, during which Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel’s summer Operation Protective Edge against Hamas constituted a “genocidal crime,” that the Israelis had committed a “series of absolute war...

Last week The New York Post published an op-ed by Jonathan Schanzer arguing that the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum (GCTF) “doesn’t hold its members to any standards.” Schanzer observed that a number of the countries on GCTF, including Pakistan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, “help fund or otherwise sponsor terrorism.” The main focus...

In a “media stakeout” today (video below), Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman foreshadowed some of the themes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would Some of the points that Liberman made in response to questions were: I think that it’s clear to me that Abu Mazen lost connection to reality and,...

On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General assembly focusing on the Iranian threat, The Wall Street Journal described Washington as failing to maintain its position regarding Tehran’s nuclear program. An in-house opinion piece (via Google) from the WSJ suggested “Tehran holds firm while the...

Sunday, The Times of Israel excerpted an interview Lady Gaga gave last week to The Independent. “Oh it was fantastic!” said Lady Gaga in an interview published Friday by The Independent, talking about her September 13 performance in Tel Aviv. “Tel Aviv was magnificent. The world view of Israel is...