At a memorial service marking the two year anniversary of the massacre at the Jewish Otzar Hatorah School in Toulouse, France, the country’s interior minister, Manuel Valls, of the Socialist Party, strongly condemned both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in stark terms, and drew a clear connection between the two. Ha’aretz reported that...

The Associated Press on Wednesday conveyed threats from top Palestinian official Nabil Shaath to suspend peace talks with Israel, and to “immediately” resume diplomatic warfare against the Jewish state. A senior Palestinian official says the Palestinians will resume their campaign for international recognition at the United Nations if Israel calls off a...

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on Thursday blocked access to Twitter, just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “eradicate” the microblogging service and bragged about having obtained a court order enabling him to do so. Erdogan – who until recently had been hailed by some U.S. foreign policy analysts...

Veteran Israeli national security correspondent Yaakov Lappin this week conveyed what he described as “recent Israeli intelligence assessments” concluding that Hamas is steadily moving to reinvigorate its strained relationship with Iran, amid broader signals that the Palestinian terror group is desperate to halt what has become its worst economic crisis in roughly a decade....

Israel’s Immigration and Absorption Ministry presented its findings to the Knesset this week that more than two thirds of French Jews are considering leaving the country. The findings were presented in the context of an Israeli government effort to increase immigration from France; however they raise serious concerns that a...

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Israel last week wasn’t just a matter of diplomacy and show of political support for the Jewish state. It was also the occasion for the two countries to announce a major research initiative. Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world’s largest generic drug maker, and...

Iran’s top leaders and diplomats had spent the weeks leading up to recent Vienna talks underlining one red line after another, on issues ranging from the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment program, its plutonium-producing Arak complex, its centrifuge research push, and its development of ballistic missiles. Analysts who hoped that the...

The Israeli army moved overnight Tuesday to restore deterrence along the country’s border with Syria, launching air strikes against multiple Syrian army installations after a steady stream of attacks against Israeli military personnel in March culminated on Tuesday in a roadside bombing that injured four soldiers. This month had already seen three...

A scandal has erupted in Iran surrounding the dramatic misuse of funds intended for medical budgets, undercutting one of the most widely held arguments for lifting international sanctions. It emerges that the widely reported shortage in medical supplies in the Islamic Republic was the result not of sanctions — but...

Lebanese media on Wednesday described Hezbollah-controlled areas of Beirut as having settled into “an atmosphere of contentment” – with the mood being particularly prominent “among Hezbollah party leaders, cadres, and partisans” – after Hezbollah fighters seized the Syrian border town of Yabroud on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Iran-backed terror group...