While in Saudi Arabia yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued an unequivocal condemnation of the kidnapping of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel. The Palestinian leader also expressed fear that the kidnappers wanted “to destroy [the PA].” The Jerusalem Post reports: “These three boys are human beings like us, and...

CNN on Tuesday conveyed reports that Islamist militants loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have made significant gains outside of Baghdad, where fighters are advancing on the city of Baquba and where more than 50 people were killed when ISIS militants used hand grenades to attack a...

Officials from the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas have spent recent days openly lashing out against the rival Hamas faction as evidence continued to emerge – acknowledged by the Americans, by the Israelis, and by Fatah officials themselves – that the terror group was linked to...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to the Iraqi border on June 18 to pledge his country will do whatever it takes to protect the holiest sites in Shia Islam, which are located in southern Iraq. Rouhani said there are petitions from Iranians who are willing “to destroy the terrorists and...

In Terrorists and Kleptocrats: How Corruption is Eating the Palestinians Alive, featured in the June 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Aaron Menenberg describes his two years serving in the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Civil Administration. Menenberg’s job, as he describes it, was “to ensure aid projects funded by foreign governments...

In the wake of last week’s abduction of three teenagers, an Israeli company has made available a nationwide reporting system that could prevent the repeat of such an event. David Shamah of the Times of Israel reports that NowForce, which makes systems for first responders, is making its system available for...

Bonus Biogroup, a regenerative medicine company in Israel, has found a way to grow human bone from a patient’s own fat, culled during liposuction. Following successful pre-clinical testing, clinical trials will begin within the next year in Europe or in Israel on applications ranging from growing bones for dental surgery...

As talks between Iran and the P5+1 global powers resumed this week in Vienna, the Los Angeles Times published comments from one senior State Department official stating that “significant differences” remain as the parties approach the July 20 deadline set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) passes: “There are...

A Monday morning interview between Yahoo! News and Secretary of State John Kerry generated a firestorm of controversy – along with a series of retractions and clarifications from various Obama administration officials – after Kerry seemed to imply to interviewer Katie Couric that he was open to cooperating militarily with...

Israeli authorities on Monday expanded their search for three teenagers thought to have been abducted by terrorists last week, as Israeli and U.S. officials converged on the assessment that elements from the Palestinian Hamas faction – which recently came together with its long-time rivals in the Fatah faction to agree to a...