In response to the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to withhold the equivalent of what the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists and their families from tax receipts it collects, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will refuse all taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, The Times of Israel...

Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner requested the introduction of a bill before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee that would allow the State of Kansas to invest tens of millions in Israeli bonds, his office said in a statement on Wednesday. As the law currently stands, Kansas allows the...

Following a series of anti-Semitic incidents, including the desecration of Jewish graves in the northwestern state of Alsace, thousands of people across France joined rallies opposing anti-Semitism, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The show of concern over anti-Semitism comes a week after France’s Interior Ministry released a report showing...

Britain secured a deal with Israel on Monday which will allow British businesses and consumers to continue with favorable trading terms after Brexit, The Jewish Chronicle reported. International Trade Secretary and President of the Board of Trade, Dr. Liam Fox MP, signed the continuation agreement in Tel Aviv alongside Israeli...

A politician from the British Labour Party was forced to apologize on Tuesday after she suggested a group of ex-Labour MPs, who quit the party in protest over anti-Semitism, may be secretly funded by the Israeli government, the BBC reported. Ruth George, the MP for High Peak, alleged it was...

A group of angry Iranians attacked the Islamic Republic’s so-called “morality police” in a Tehran suburb on February 15 when authorities detained two young women for not wearing the hijab, The Daily Telegraph reported. Officers fired warning shots at the group in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Protesters were...

Merck, the German drug manufacturing giant, has opened a tech incubator in Israel, PMatX,  which will focus on companies that develop semiconductor and sensor technology, The Times of Israel reported Monday. “This is our newest initiative in Israel to help startups and academic ideas in the material sciences to become...

The wildly popular Israeli pop duo Static & Ben El released a US single, “Tudo Bom,” following its premiere on Z100’s syndicated radio program “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.” The track released by S&B Entertainment Ventures LLC/Caroline, featuring Latin singing star J Balvin performing with the Israeli duo, is...

The campaign led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others against state laws combatting boycotts of Israel is marked by “misinformation and bad legal analysis,” George Mason University Law School Prof. David Bernstein wrote at the Reason website Sunday. In the first of two posts on the topic, Bernstein...

In his latest anti-Semitic outburst, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke in defense of the Women’s March national leadership and charged “wicked Jews” were trying to use him to break up the movement, The Jerusalem Post reported. Farrakhan made the comments during the annual Saviours’ Day conference in Chicago...