On Wednesday, researcher Dr. Anat Berko wrote of her recent visit to an Israeli Arab village, where she found an under-reported respect that many Israeli Arabs have for their state. Berko focused on a local business owner, Muhammad, explaining: A while ago we went to get the car fixed in one of the Arab...

UN Watch revealed today that William Schabas, a human rights law professor who was appointed to head the United Nation Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) commission to investigate possible war crimes during Operation Protective Edge, prejudged Israel in an interview he gave in July (audio embedded below). In the interview with the...

In an op-ed published in The New York Daily News on Thursday, Matthew Levitt, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), argued that the United States must step up its military attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) if it hopes to defeat the terrorist...

Two Norwegians have been identified as leading commanders within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), operating under the direct charge of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to Israeli press reports Thursday. The Times of Israel reported: The two Norwegians were named by the broadcaster as Bastian Vasquez from Skien, southwest of...

A multi-ethnic team of surgeons with Save a Child’s Heart operated successfully on 10-month-old Fajar at an Israeli medical center. Three days before the ceasefire that has brought quiet in Israel and Gaza, an officer in the Palestinian Authority in Gaza braved the danger to bring his 10-month-old daughter, Fajar,...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will propose a timetable for talks with Israel during a meeting with Arab League foreign ministers slated for September 7. Palestinian supreme judge Mahmoud al-Habbash said Abbas wants to garner support from Arab countries for nine months of talks with Israel. The plan…includes three months of...

Today, a number of mortar shells fired from Syria exploded in an open area in the Golan Heights. The IDF responded to the source of the mortar fire. The Times of Israel reports: Israel responded by firing a Tamuz missile at the origin of the attack. An IDF spokesperson said the...

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that an investigation by the UN’s nuclear watchdog into Iran’s atomic program had stalled, with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expected to issue a report noting as much and emphasizing that Iranian officials had failed to provide the information that the agency required to...

The Times of Israel reported yesterday on recent cooperative agreements between Israeli and American universities. The article highlighted a recently concluded agreement between Cleveland State University and the University of Haifa. The agreement was signed by CSU President Ronald Berkman and University of Haifa Rector David Faraggi, who was in Cleveland for...

Thousands of people gathered in Frankfurt over the weekend to protest anti-Semitism and demonstrate in favor of Israel, the Kurds and the Yazidi, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday. The demonstration is to be followed up “on September 14 by a national rally in Berlin coordinated by the Central Council...