International institutions devoted to promoting peace and cooperation are admirable in theory but in practice, during 2018, two of them — the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency — have failed to live up to their founding principles and protect Israel. The UN, according to its charter, was...

The national security adviser to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that Brazil had the “clear intention” to move the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, although no official date has been set for the relocation, The Times of Israel reported. The president’s senior adviser Augusto Heleno charged...

December 2018 didn’t see any mega investments for Israeli companies but over the course of the year Israeli tech companies raised a total of $6.47 billion across 623 funding deals, report Tel Aviv-based IVC Research Center and Israeli law firm Zysman, Aharoni, Gayer and Sullivan & Worcester. This is the...

Two women imprisoned by the Iranian regime in the infamous Evin prison have announced their intent to participate in a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to grant them access to adequate health care, the Telegraph reported Thursday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen, wrote in a letter that...

Organizers of the Charlotte’s Women’s March have changed their name and disassociated themselves from the national movement over expressions of anti-Semitism by the March’s leadership, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. The Charlotte march will be held on January 26, not the 19th, and will be called the Women United March. In...

The Palestinian Authority is looking to deport a United States citizen who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for selling land to Jews according to a report on Israeli television, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. U.S. officials have reportedly been pressuring the PA to release Issam Akel, who is...

The Philippine government has requested permission from Saudi Arabia for the rights to fly through its airspace on a direct flight path to Israel, Globes reported Wednesday. The country made the request ahead of the anticipated launch of direct Manila-Tel Aviv flights by the state-owned Philippine Airlines later this year....

Two Roman busts were found in early December near the Israeli city of Beit She’an by a local resident who spotted the top of one sticking out of the ground as she was walking with her husband. The couple called the Israel Antiquities Authority Theft Prevention Unit, and inspectors were...

Following increased tensions between the two main Palestinian factions, including the arrests of numerous Fatah loyalists in Gaza, a West Bank Fatah official said that “there will be no dialogue with Hamas,” The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Fatah, the faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has accused Hamas...

Both the United States and Israel have withdrawn from UNESCO, described by outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley as one of “the most corrupt and politically biased UN agencies,” Fox News reported Tuesday. Both countries had notified UNESCO, the UN’s cultural and scientific agency, of their intent to...