President Barack Obama on Friday told reporters in Seoul that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction had been “unhelpful” in moving earlier in the week to pursue an agreement with the rival Hamas faction that would among other things see the formation of a unity government filled...

As Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 28, the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned it is a grave mistake to dismiss Iran’s threats to wipe Israel off the map as mere rhetoric. Today, just like then, there are those who view Iran’s nuclear ambitions as the result of...

As part of its ongoing clampdown on smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian army uncovered six tunnels over the weekend that started inside a mosque (Arabic link) on the Egyptian side of the border. A military spokesman said in a statement, on the official page of the Armed...

Last year when he wrote about the passing of Israeli children’s author Devora Omer, Shmuel Rosner lamented that his children, who were unfamiliar with her work, are “missing out on the foundational tales that undergird a strong collective memory, which a country like ours needs in order to survive.” The...

A letter written by Iranian dissident Emad Bahavar that was recently smuggled out of the country’s notorious Evin prison paints a grim picture of the conditions under which political prisoners are held in the Islamic Republic. The contents of the letter casts doubt on Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s widely-assumed ability...

According a report on CNN, an Israeli company, Water-Gen, has developed a device that uses an extremely efficient process to remove the humidity from the air and store it as clean, drinkable water—in other words, creating water out of thin air. “The clean air enters our GENius heat exchanger system where...

Hamas wasted little time in shooting down reports that as part of its reconciliation package with the Palestinian Authority it might keep the door open to recognizinng Israel. Interviewed on the Hamas website, Senior Hamas official Hassan Yousef categorically denied (Arabic) the report, saying “the issue of recognition is non-negotiable.” Taher...

Palestinian fighters on Thursday detonated a bomb along the northern border of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and launched a mortar shell at an IDF unit operating along the southern border of the territory, developments that the Jerusalem Post contextualized alongside new figures that show that there has been an uptick...

CNN on Thursday reported that forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime had, as part of an ongoing attack on the country’s largest city, Aleppo, dropped barrel bombs out of helicopters on a vegetable market, killing at least 24 people. Activists and human rights workers distributed video of what Agence...

Turkish outlet Today’s Zaman on Tuesday described a rush by Iranian banks to open and expand branches in Turkey in the aftermath of “growth restrictions” being lifted: Bank Mellat, which has been in Turkey since 1982, faced restrictions in 2012 which led to a decline in its growth due to...