It was reported Friday that an Argentinian court struck down as unconstitutional a controversial agreement between between the Argentinian government and the government of Iran to establish a joint “truth commission”  to investigate the 1994 bombing at the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The...

According to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) this week, Israeli men now have the fourth longest life expectancy in the world. The Times of Israel reports: World Health Statistics 2014 puts the life expectancy at birth of Israel’s men at 80.2, behind only Iceland (81.2), Switzerland...

It has taken almost a decade but Maccabi Tel Aviv is once again the Euroleague champion, after winning the continent’s premier basketball tournament. Tel Aviv took the title with a 98-86 overtime victory over the heavily-fancied Real Madrid in Milan. Tel Aviv wasn’t supposed to have a chance against Real...

Israel and the United States are joining forces this week for the five-day, ballistic-missile-defense exercise Juniper Cobra. The Juniper Cobra exercises have been held every two years since 2001, and this year it will be the seventh exercise. In 2009, the main scenario of the exercise was an Iranian missile...

Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s Prime Minister in Gaza, boasted late last week that Hamas and Fatah have reached an agreement on combining the two organizations’ security forces. The news site Ma’an reported: “We agreed on all the details of the security file, we are committed to what we signed. We will not allow...

Last week on “Nakba Day,” the Palestinian commemoration of the disaster that was the founding of Israel, a group of children addressed a press conference at the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in Gaza. The children at the press conference “handed a letter in English and Arabic to the UN representative in Gaza”...

Egypt’s Coptic Christian community is expected to overwhelmingly back Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in this month’s presidential election. Hailed as a savior for overthrowing an Islamist president, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can count on the vote of Egypt’s Coptic Christians who view him as a bulwark against fundamentalists. The Copts...

In an analysis written for Tablet Magazine Thursday, Lee Smith argues that since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu  no longer has to expend effort on negotiations with the Palestinians, he is freed to concentrate on the other “permanent threat” to Israel, Iran. Still, Smith does not see an Israeli strike on...

Hamas on Wednesday made a point of clearing out of the Gaza residence of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – a move that Reuters described as “the most concrete sign yet that [the group and Abbas’s Fatah faction] are moving toward reconciliation” – amid deepening concerns among analysts that...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday acknowledged that what he described as “raw data” – viewed by him as well as by other U.S. officials – indicated that “there may have been, as France has suggested, a number of instances in which chlorine has been used in the conduct...