Leading candidates from Israel’s major parties emphasized Tuesday that Iran’s atomic program, widely thought to have a clandestine weapons component, will constitute a central concern for Israel’s next government. The politicians’ statements, which came as part of a pre-election debate hosted by The Israel Project at the Hebrew University of...

A future Palestinian state is in “extreme jeopardy” according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The Palestinian Authority is struggling to cope with a spiraling economic and financial crisis that Fayyad linked to the failure of Arab states to deliver promised assistance. The assistance has become crucial in the aftermath of...

The Muslim Brotherhood has further consolidated its control of Egyptian political institutions, with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday reshuffling his cabinet to grant powerful portfolios to Muslim Brotherhood officials. Three Muslim Brotherhood-aligned leaders picked up key portfolios, with Morsi contextualizing the changes as designed to rehabilitate Egypt’s troubled economy. The...

The Israeli Security Agency recorded 112 terror attacks committed against Israelis in December, including six roadside bombs, three grenades, 98 firebombs, and two incidents of gunfire. The number is down significantly from the 637 attacks registered in November, and reflects relative quiet in the aftermath of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense....

Citing the risk of spillover from the conflict raging in Syria, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to build a security fence along the Israeli-Syrian border. Western analysts have become increasingly concerned about the degree to which Sunni-backed opposition forces have been infiltrated by hard-line Islamist elements, with the...

Egyptian security forces have intercepted a shipment of American-made missiles bound from North Africa to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, according to Arabic and Israeli sources. The news deepens concerns that Palestinian terror groups are exploiting the increasingly anarchic situation in the Sinai Peninsula to move advanced weapons into the Gaza Strip. Egyptian forces have...

Bulgarian officials have identified and issued an arrest warrant for one of the suspects in the July bombing of a tourist bus that left five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver dead. At least three foreigners aided the suicide bomber, who according to officials did not plan to die in...

A German columnist’s inclusion in the Simon Weisenthal Center’s list of top anti-Semitic writers is sparking debates across Europe. Jakob Augstein’s online columns in Spiegel have covered topics ranging from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ultra-Orthodox religious groups in Israel to the U.S.-Israel relationship, citing in particular that he...

At least nine people died when a car bomb exploded at a gas station in Damascus Thursday, just a day after dozens were killed in an airstrike on a gas station south of the city. Due to fuel shortages, gas stations have become easy targets in the three-way proxy war...

The Iran-backed terror group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian faction Fatah, which politically controls Palestinian areas of the West Bank, have both rejected U.N. requests to accept some 150,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Syria. Their refusals come as U.N. officials have raised the estimated death toll...