Former MK Einat Wilf responded to Mahmoud Abbas's apology for his anti-Semitic speech earlier this week, writing, "For Palestinians, there is no such thing as a Jewish PEOPLE. There are only those of Jewish FAITH." This means that the Palestinians believe that Jews have no right "a sovereign state in their ancestral homeland.” She wasn't alone in rejecting the Palestinian leader's apology.
TIP Senior Fellow Julie Lenarz wrote, that the riots under the guise of what Hamas calls the "March of Return" really "are just a smokescreen for Hamas’s true intention: the total rejection of a Jewish presence in all of Israel. The terror group uses the riots to try to attack and kidnap Israelis. Hamas has developed an extensive tunnel network and has been training naval commandos for such operations. They have been testing Israeli defenses for weeks, including with IEDs along the border, kites carrying burning fuel into Israel, and infiltrations."
Reigning Giro D'Italia champ Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands won the first stage of this year's race held in Jerusalem. It is the first time that a Grand Tour event has been held outside of Europe. Teams from the United Arab Emirates and Dubai competed, even though those nations don't have diplomatic ties with Israel. Having the race in Israel is the vision of real-estate magnate Sylvan Adams who sees it as a chance to show off Israel to the world and promote coexistence.
This the third in our series of in-depth looks into Iran's growing influence and menace across the Middle East in the wake of the nuclear deal by TIP Senior Fellow Julie Lenarz.
An Israeli satellite imaging company has detected unusual activity at Iran's Fordow enriching facility. Is Iran planning to continue its uranium enrichment there?
A recently discovered coin stamped with the phrase “for the freedom of Jerusalem,” which was found in a cave outside of the central Israeli city of Modi’in, suggests that the Bar Kochba rebellion against Roman rule following the destruction of the second Jewish Temple had more widespread support than previously thought, The Times of Israel reported.
An editorial in The New York Times published Thursday described a speech given earlier this week by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s as “vile” and called on him to leave office.
The speech attributed persecution of Jews to “social behavior” rather than religion. The speech has been widely condemned as anti-Semitic.
Guatemala raised its flag at the site of its new embassy at Jerusalem's Malkha Technology Park on Tuesday. The official opening ceremony is scheduled to take place two days after the United States inaugurates its embassy in Jerusalem on May 14.
V-Wave, Caesarea-based maker of an interatrial shunt device for treating patients with severe symptomatic heart failure raised $70 million in April, the most for any Israeli start-up last month.
Take a look at what Israel revealed on Monday, what it means, and what needs to be done about Iran's secret nuclear weapons program.
A blaze started by kites carrying burning fuel have ignited fields in southern Israel requiring ten teams of firefighters to fight them.
Politicians and diplomats representing the United States, European Union, United Nations, and Israel have condemned recent remarks made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday at the first meeting of the Palestinian National Council in more than twenty years.
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told reporters that his nation was expelling the Iranian ambassador and would close its own embassy in Tehran due to Iranian support for the Polisario Front, which represents the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara.
David Albright, a former weapons inspector and current head of the Institute for Science and International Security, and Olli Heinonen, a former deputy director-general of the IAEA, “agreed” that the information presented Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be used for the IAEA to demand additional inspections of Iranian facilities.
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva announced the development of a new and accurate method of screening for early breast cancer, using inexpensive technology for breath and urine analysis.
The conference – the first of its kind in Israel – aims to raise awareness about web archiving in Israel, and to address the importance of web archiving and web archive research for digital cultural heritage.
