Daily Archives: January 9, 2019

The think tank that I run, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has completed a four-year research activity in which all 364 schoolbooks for grades 1-12 that were published by the Palestinian Authority...

The Senate failed to reach the necessary 60 votes on Tuesday evening to end debate on Republican-introduced legislationthat, if enacted, would impose fresh sanctions on Syria, as well as boost security cooperation with Israel and...

In a prime-time televised address on Monday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed looming corruption charges against him at the center of the current election cycle, ahead of issues relating to security or...

Gonen Segev, a former Israeli minister who was found to have met repeatedly with Iranian intelligence officials for the past six years and given them sensitive information, will serve 11 years in prison as...

The government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi recently announced a multimillion-dollar initiative to restore Jewish heritage sites throughout the country. Soon afterwards, the government backtracked, probably due to a public backlash. “The Egyptian ministry...

Through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Palestinians have received 25 times more aid per capita than did the whole of Europe to rebuild their shattered countries after World War Two. And yet,...

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft will be awarded what Time magazine has dubbed the “Jewish Nobel:” the Genesis Prize, one of Israel’s top awards. Kraft, 77, will be given the honor for his longtime contributions to...

Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran, who were wounded in a shooting attack outside Ofra in Samaria and lost their newborn baby, were released from Shaarei Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Monday, exactly one month...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton on Tuesday for promising that Turkey will not attack the Kurds fighting the Islamic State in Syria. “We cannot accept Bolton’s messages given from Israel,”...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law on Tuesday, doubling security funding for nonpublic schools, including Jewish ones. The legislation, passed unanimously in the state legislature last month, allocates $22.6 million for...