In a fervent display of discontent, throngs of Israelis converged outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, voicing their grievances against the Prime Minister’s handling of the conflict with Hamas. Draped in Israeli flags and brandishing banners denouncing Netanyahu, protesters filled the streets, demanding his immediate resignation. The catalyst for the protests was the traumatic... 

MSNBC has declared that the lives of twenty Israelis are worth the lives of one thousand Americans and that the Hamas attack on Israel is a “9/11-level event.” “When twenty Israelis are killed or twenty hostages are captured, that’s like a thousand Americans,” declared MSNBC pundit and Rt. Admiral James Stavridis, a former NATO Commander, who followed up by comparing the potential death... 

A group of Israeli and US experts disclosed on Wednesday that the first sentence ever found in the language of the Canaanites, a people who formerly lived in the ancient Near East, was a term used to treat lice. May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard, says a 17-letter inscription on an ivory comb that dates to roughly 1,700 BC, according to a research that was published in the Jerusalem... 

News that Israeli television broadcast the beating of a supposedly Arab man live amid the ongoing violence has drawn condemnation on social media, with users questioning Israel’s reputation as the Middle East’s only democracy. Footage from Wednesday evening showed a man being dragged from his car, beaten and set upon by dogs in Bat Yam, Tel-Aviv, and was aired live by state broadcaster Kan. While... 

A Jewish newspaper serving the Orthodox community in New Jersey’s northern suburbs apologized for an article that “joked” about shooting 100,000 Palestinians to celebrate Purim: The article in the Feb. 24 edition of The Jewish Link carried the headline “100,000 Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers.” The attempted joke was that the “shots” referred to COVID-19 vaccinations. The New Jersey... 

When a delegation of senior Israeli officials visited the Trump White House on February 13, 2017, they wanted to discuss several issues with their new American counterparts. Topping the list was a secret letter concerning a subject the Israelis had promised the Americans never to discuss publicly—Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal. In a recent piece for The New Yorker, I described a tense scene... 

Papadopoulos pleaded guilty 5th October 2017 to making false statements to the FBI regarding his interactions with mysterious Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud. He received a 14-day jail sentence. On 5th May, transcripts of conversations between former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos and one of the at least three confidential human sources (CHS) deployed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation... 

Elan Carr, the State Department’s special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, told a group of Israelis and Americans Tuesday night that in order to combat anti-Semitism, not only is teaching the Holocaust essential, the U.S. also needs to “educate on philo-Semitism”: Philo-Semitism, which is sometimes referred to as “positive anti-Semitism,” is an inverse form of anti-Semitism... 

US President Donald Trump has announced that Israelis should be immune from any prosecutions launched by the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to an official statement issued by the White House and directly attributed to Trump (“Statement from the President,” April 12, 2019), he included Israelis in a “victory” statement after the ICC rejected a request to investigate US personnel... 

Palestinian officials have denounced as hostile the US move to merge its consulate in Jerusalem, which mostly served Palestinians, with the embassy controversially inaugurated last year. The overhaul has been scheduled for Monday. The US State Department on Sunday formally set a date for the previously announced merger of its embassy in Jerusalem with the consulate, which was operating as the de facto... 

Jared Kushner is in the Middle East this week for a five-nation tour accompanied by US Middle East Envoy, Jason Greenblatt. The pair are reportedly in the region to gauge the level of support among Arab statesmen for President Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ between the Israelis and Palestinians. Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior aide to President Donald Trump, has told Sky News’... 

Colombian police have detained six Israelis accused of running a sex ring that exploited underage girls and forced them to have sex with Israeli tourists in the Latin American country. Following a two-year investigation, Colombian security police managed to break up “an Israeli mafia that exploited and used girls, adolescents and women as sex slaves in Colombia,” said Prosecutor General Nestor... 

A Palestinian shot dead two Israelis and wounded another at a West Bank settlement’s industrial zone today. Security forces are hunting the suspected assailant who also worked at the site, the Israeli army said. Since the attack was allegedly carried out by a Palestinian employed at the Barkan industrial zone in the occupied West Bank, questions were raised over whether he knew the victims and... 

Some 1,500 people have rallied in central Tel Aviv demanding the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu over corruption allegations and a recent Israeli police recommendation that charges be brought against the Prime Minister. The “Bibi Netanyahu go home” slogan once again united the Israeli crowd holding their weekly anti-government corruption protest in Tel Aviv. Waving signs that read “Bibi, you... 

Never before in the annals of US politics has a top presidential adviser had more of an inside track for influencing the White House than Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Will this turn out to be a problem for Trump in the future? Name any major event over the course of Trump’s first year in office and you will undoubtedly find the doleful face of Jared Kushner lurking somewhere...