A second Israeli judoka won gold at the Abu Dhabi Judo Grand Slam event, meaning that Israel’s national anthem Hatikva was played once again in the United Arab Emirates. Israeli Peter Paltchik beat Elmar Gasimov from Azerbaijan, and won the gold medal in the under-100 kilogram (220 pounds) weight class, The...

A Danish police operation thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate an opposition leader in the Scandinavian country. Finn Borch Andersen, Denmark’s intelligence chief, said that a Norwegian of Iranian descent was arrested on October 21 for acting as an accomplice with an unidentified Iranian intelligence agency “to act in Denmark”...

Municipal elections take place Tuesday (October 30) throughout Israel. The race for mayor in Jerusalem is the talk of the town, and the residents of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo apparently have gotten caught up in campaign fever. The animals are busily preparing to get out the vote by brushing beaks, combing...

For the first time, Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva, was played in Abu Dhabi, as Israeli Judoka Sagi Muki won the gold medal in his weight division, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. In the tournament, the Abu Dhabi Judo Grand Slam, in which judokas from 62 nations competed, three of...

Israel has blamed a barrage of rockets aimed at Israel from Gaza on Friday night on Hamas and Iran, The Washington Post reported Saturday. “We hold Hamas responsible for everything coming from Gaza,” IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said. “All violence and provocations are Hamas’s responsibility. The humanitarian improvements...

Oman publicly called for regional recognition of Israel, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a historic visit to the Sultanate on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Oman’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, told a security forum in Bahrain that, “Israel is a state...

A psychotrauma team from the Israeli rescue organization, United Hatzalah, traveled to Pittsburgh to help the community deal with the psychological effects of Saturday’s synagogue massacre that claimed eleven lives, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The team, which is working with both Israel’s Diaspora Ministry and Pittsburgh’s Jewish Federation, will...

If bats frighten you, you’ll want to steer clear of Tel Aviv University graduate student Itamar Eliakim’s latest invention: an autonomous robot that navigates in the dark like a bat. “Robat” doesn’t fly like its biological inspiration, but scoots on the ground on four wheels. The similarities come into play...

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has slammed UNESCO, the cultural and educational agency of the United Nations, for denying the Jewish people’s historic connection to Judaism’s holy sites, The Algemeiner reported on Tuesday. “The idea that there’s a question about the Jewish historical presence in the Holy...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret trip to Oman on Friday on a first official visit by an Israeli leader to the Gulf nation in over two decades, The Times of Israel reported. The meeting between the Israeli leader and Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said was hailed as...