Daily Archives: November 19, 2019

While most people critical of UNRWA policies devoted time and energy to oppose the renewal of the UNRWA mandate this past week, the Center for Near East Policy Research worked on the assumption that...

Since December 2017, a sort of “rolling rebellion” has been occurring across Iran. It is bigger, deeper and stronger than the Green Revolution of 2009 and taking place in great measure outside Tehran, where...

While Israelis are struggling to form a government as the result of a virtual tie between Blue and White and Likud, Americans for Peace Now has weighed in with a pamphlet that asks what politicians can...

Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, just 26 hours before Gantz’s mandate to form a government will expire. Netanyahu...

Affectionately called “Mountain Jews,” the Jewish community of Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red Village) in the Quba district of Azerbaijan is home to nearly half the Jews living in this Muslim-majority country. Believed to be the...

A few hours after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the United States no longer views Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria as violating international law, E.U. foreign-affairs chief Federica Mogherini stated...

Four missiles were launched at Israel from Syria on Tuesday morning, according to the Israeli military. The attack triggered sirens in the northern Golan and the Galilee region at 4:52 a.m., sending residents rushing to...

As Israel approaches what would be its third election in less than a year, many Israelis and international observers are questioning the sustainability of the country’s complicated parliamentary system. Yet at the heart of...

The Great Synagogue in Illintsi, Ukraine, was burned irreparably last Thursday by fire. The 18th-century structure, about 130 miles northeast of the country’s capital of Kiev, collapsed due to the flames. It had been used since...

Experts weighed in on the U.S. State Department’s announcement on Monday that the United States is softening its stance on Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. It is a reversal of the 1978 State Department legal opinion,...