The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that Israeli conductor-composer Omer Meir Wellber, 36, has been appointed as the BBC Philharmonic’s new chief conductor. He is to take up the post in September 2019 and his initial contract is for four years. “I first worked with the BBC Philharmonic in March and knew...

Two supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign disrupted the showing of a Holocaust movie in Berlin, holding up a banner bearing their message in front of the screen, Benjamin Weinthal reported on Wednesday for The Jerusalem Post. The crowd booed as the two activists were removed from the...

In a sign of warming ties between Israel and Arab states, the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States shared a table with his Israeli counterpart at a public pro-Israel event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. The two officials sat next to each other at the...

The Trump administration in September ordered the closure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C., citing the refusal of Palestinian leaders to enter into peace talks with Israel. In an interview with J.J. Green of Target USA: the National Security Podcast, Kenneth Bricker, a spokesman for The Israel Project,...

The IDF announced that it destroyed the fifteenth Hamas-built terror tunnel over the past year, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The tunnel, which extended 200 meters (200 yards) into Israel, was located by using advanced tunnel detection techniques. According to IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis, the just-destroyed tunnel had “different...

An exciting find was unveiled October 9 by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Israel Museum: a unique stone inscription dating from the Second Temple Period (first century CE), including the full Hebrew spelling of “Jerusalem” as we know it today. The inscription was found last winter near the Jerusalem...

Ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced Tuesday that she would be leaving her post as United States Ambassador to the United Nations at the end of the year, made her mark by vigorously defending Israel in the often-hostile world body. But Haley didn’t just defend the Jewish state, she also pointed...

A tenured professor, who refused to write a recommendation for a student who planned to study in Israel, was disciplined by the University of Michigan, and a second incident of an instructor refusing to write a similar letter was reported. The Detroit News reported Tuesday the University of Michigan disciplined...

An Iranian diplomat linked to a foiled terror attack that targeted a rally organized by an Iranian opposition group near Paris in June has been extradited to Belgium from Germany, security officials said Tuesday. The rally was attended by high-profile figures, including close allies of United States President Donald Trump....

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have handed out student and staff ID cards at the University of Sana’a with a slogan saying, “Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory to Islam,” The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. Nadwa Dawsari, a specialist on conflict and tribes in...