A BBC World Service radio program aired a show in the runup to Christmas titled "Black Jesus," in which presenter Robert Beckford made the anachronistic claim that Jesus was a "Palestinian," even though that term came into use a century later.
A dozen Israeli researchers were ranked among the world's top 50 in their disciplines, a new study from Stanford University showed, with a further 333 researchers coming in the top two percent of the world.
Israel began its third coronavirus lockdown Sunday evening, as the country ranked first in the world in the number of vaccinations per capita.
Days before the killing of an Israeli mother of six last week, the Palestinian Authority, on its official television network, praised the murderer of another Israeli mother and her five-year-old son as "heroic.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday promised that “many, many more countries” would be signing normalization agreements with Israel soon.
Israel is vaccinating at a much faster rate than the UK and is set to overtake it in a matter of days, a new graph showed, with experts predicating that the country will have achieved herd immunity by Passover.
Israel will hold its fourth elections in two years after the 23rd Knesset dissolved at midnight on Tuesday over a failure by the unity government's parties to meet a budget deadline.
A top contestant in France's annual beauty pageant faced a tsunami of anti-Semitic abuse after revealing her father is Israeli, in an incident that sparked an outcry from French politicians and Jewish groups.
Newly elected congressman and self-proclaimed "pro-Israel progressive" Ritchie Torres, a South Bronx Democrat, said hewill not be joining the radical left-wing “Squad,” comprised of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, citing the group's anti-Israel views.
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and former National Security Adviser John Bolton have slammed the Trump administration's decision to recognize Moroccansovereignty over Western Sahara in return for a normalization deal with Israel.
The U.S.-brokered normalization accords between Israel and an ever-growing list of Arab states has effectively neutralized the threat posed by the anti-Israelboycott, divest, and sanction movement (BDS), the New York Post's op-ed editorSohrab Ahmari wrote Tuesday.
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters his second day of quarantine after meeting with a coronavirus carrier, his strategic advisor Aaron Klein toldi24NEWS the Israeli leader'spolicy is to purchase as many vaccines as possible.
An Iranian teenager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison forphotoshopping her appearanceon Instagram to look like an Angelina Jolie zombie.
The chances of extraterrestrial life are high and while an Israeli defense expert who last week claimed aliens have formed a "Galactic Federation" with humans and President Donald Trump knows about it may have taken things too far, he shouldn’t be dismissed entirely, the head of Israel’s space agency told The Times of Israel.
Oman and Indonesia could be the next likely candidates to establish diplomatic relations with Israel in the coming weeks, theJerusalem Post reported Sunday, citing a diplomatic source.
In 1973, 30-year-old freshman senator Joe Biden made his first overseas trip to Egypt and Israel. This week, an Israeli historian revealed Biden had passed on disinformation to then-Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, telling her Egypt believed it would be impossible to go to war with Israel -- contributing to an Israeli consensus that would end up costing the Jewish state dearly when its neighboring foe caught it unawares a little more than a month later and attacked.
President Donald Trump attended a Hanukkah celebration at the White House on Wednesday, where he said he would still win the 2020 election.
Israel announced plans Thursday to send a second spacecraft to land on the moon,after its first effort crash-landed last year.
Israel’s first batch of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines landed on Wednesday amid pomp and ceremony with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailing it as a "great holiday" and saying he would volunteer to be the first to be vaccinated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday marked the third anniversary of U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by thanking President Donald Trump and hanging a copy of the American president's proclamation on the wall of the cabinet room beside a 1948 proclamation by then-president Harry Truman recognizing the new State of Israel.
The assassination of Iran’s nuclear weapons mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last week was carried out using a satellite-controlled machine gun with “artificial intelligence,” the deputy commander of the country’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) told local media Sunday.
The U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain arean opportunity for the Palestinians and do not come at their "expense" as they claim, Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said Sunday.
Iran has successfully identified the perpetrator’s behind Friday’s assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian government spokesperson claimed Wednesday. Iran’sTasnimNews Agency cited Ali Rabiei as saying the Islamic Republic’s Intelligence Ministry had “identified individuals in connection with
Israel on Wednesday received its most advanced warship,a German-made Sa’ar-6-class corvette equipped with sensors, weapons and defensive systems that will aid the navy in protecting the country's natural gas rigs and trade routes amid sky-high tensions with Iran.
Israel is a key partner in fighting Iran and not the problem, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader on Sunday vowed Iran would retaliate overthe assassination Iran’s nuclear weapons mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which the country has alleged Israel was behind.
An opinion piece published by an Iranian newspaper on Sunday called for Iran to attack the northern Israeli port city of Haifa as retaliation for the assassination of nuclear weapons mastermind Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, saying such anassault should also incur “heavy human casualties.
Former President Barack Obama's new book about his eight years in the White House is a "revisionist" account of Israel's history that proves he is "anti-Israel," a former Knesset member said.
The Israeli military has been preparing for the possibility that President Donald Trump will order a strike on Iran before leaving office.
Joe Biden's choice for national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, slammed President Donald Trump’s Middle East policies during an interview in late 2017 with China's government-controlled CGTN network.
Joe Biden's potential director of legislative affairs, Reema Dodin, justified Palestinian suicide bombers during the bloody Second Intifada.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was nominated Tuesday for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the recent normalization deals between Israel and Arab states.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Monday denied reports that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held trilateral talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Iran, the nuclear deal, and normalization.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in what would mark the first known encounter between leaders of the two countries, Israeli media reported.
The Trump administration will continue to be a force for good all over the world, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the JNSwire in an interview published Friday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged self-proclaimed president-elect Joe Biden not to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, saying Israel would push back against American efforts to do so.
The U.S.will label exports from Jewish settlements as Israeli, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursdayas he made a historic visit to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
New peace deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain send a message to Iran that its influence in the region is waning,U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Karine Jean-Pierre, an anti-Israel radical who praised Democrats for shunning a pro-Israel conference last year, has emerged as a top candidate to be Joe Biden's White House press secretary, according to several news sources.
Call him a blowhard and a bully, declare him vulgar and vain, just stop the comparisons with Hitler. And Goebbels. And Nazism in general. Stop invoking the Holocaust and Nazi Germany when describing Trump's America in 2020.
Israel has demanded an apology from CNN over anchorwoman'sChristiane Amanpour comments comparing the actions of President Donald Trump to Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom against Jews.
Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the U.S. killed Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of masterminding the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, in a drive-by shooting in Tehran, Iran, in August, the New York Times reported, citing intelligence officials.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit a Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") during his visit to Israel next week, making him the first secretary of state to do so, according to a prominent Israeli journalist citing Israeli and American officials.
Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates will seek Hezbollah's designation as a terrorist group by countries that have not yet done so as well as the United Nations, a senior Israeli official told Israeli dailyIsrael Hayom Thursday.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday notified Congress of its plans to sell 50 stealth F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a wider arms package worth over $23 billion, with the goal of deterring Iran.
The chairman of the Republican Party in Israel, Marc Zell, said he is"cautiously optimistic" about President Donald Trump's chances in turning over a "premature" victory for Joe Biden.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on self-proclaimed president-elect Joe Biden to “strengthen the Palestinian-American relationship," and was cited by a senior source as seeking the reversal of the U.S.
Palestinians hailed the end of “the worst era” of President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday night, saying"an evil has distanced itself from us" and calling the incumbent "dangerous and destructive.
A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday adopted a resolution, backed by 139 member states, that referred to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount only by its Muslim name and ignored any connection to Judaism -- despite it being the religion's holiest site.
Liberal Jews who are "closet" supporters of President Donald Trump paid a high price for revealing their loyalties, a hawkish New York-basked Jewish newspaper reported on election day,saying they lost decades-old friendships and were told they would be mourned as if they were dead.
A caravan of dozens of vehicles supporting U.S. President Donald Trump rolled down the Jerusalem hills in Israel on Tuesday evening, ending with a pro-Trump rally and marking the fifth Jewish “Trump train” worldwide within a week.
Jews held prayers for the re-election of "lover of Israel," President Donald Trump, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the city of Hebron, attended by local political leaders.
The first volunteer for Israel’s new coronavirus vaccine has been released from hospital after receiving the initial dose in human trials, saying he feels “great” and hopes the "whole world" will soon benefit from the Israeli vaccine.
Prayers for the success of President Donald Trumps' reelection will take place on Monday morning at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the holy city of Hebron, attended by local leaders.
Officials in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain expressed their hope for a Trump victory in the upcoming election, calling on moderate American Muslims to cast their votes for him, and warning that a Biden win could stop further peace deals in the region, an Israeli daily reported.
Videos of a motorcade featuring dozens of motorbikes supporting U.S. President Donald Trump in Jerusalem’s Old City went viral over the weekend, marking the fourth Jewish “Trump train” within a week.
Two days ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the U.S.-Israel alliance has "never been stronger" and expressed hope America’s current Middle East policy would continue.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in aninterviewpublished Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan shatter existing myths from the left that peace can only be achieved through "painful and dangerous" concessions on Israel's part.
Jewish groups in the UK on Thursday lauded the “damning verdict” surrounding Jeremy Corbyn's suspension from the Labour Party after a government watchdog found it had broken equality law.
The Israeli and U.S. envoys to the United Nations this week called on the Security Council to refrain from "shrinking" away from the recent U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel and three Arab nations, and urged the global body to promote peace in the region by embracing the accords
In the wake of a pro-Trump rally held by Orthodox Jews in New York City on Sunday, a new poll was released suggesting that more than two-thirds of American Jews believe the Republican Party holds anti-Semitic views, compared to 37% who say the same about Democrats.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday praised President Donald Trump for securing three peace deals in six weeks between Arab countries and Israel, and expressed his hope that under the next U.S.
A Biden presidency could harm normalization accords between Israel and Arab states if it chooses to reverse the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump'sspecial Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz said in an interview published Thursday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's advisor and former Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein said in an interview published Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered normalization deals between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain prove the Arab world is not beholden to the Palestinians anymore, and the latter no longer hold a veto over peace.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday welcomed a senior delegation of Emirati officials to Israel for their first official state visit since the signing of the U.S.
The United Arab Emirates and Israel on Tuesday signed a visa waiver agreement, making the Gulf country the first Arab state that Israelis can travel to without a visa.
The United Arab Emirates' top diplomat on Tuesday asked his Israeli counterpart to move quickly to set up embassies in Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. His plea came as a delegation of Emirati officials visited Israel for their first official state visit since signing a U.S.
TheNew York Times on Saturday published anop-ed piece glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man Marchand failed to mention the Nation of Islam's anti-Semitism, prompting former staffer Bari Weiss to condemn the newspaper for presenting him as a "gentleman" and for ignoring "Jew hate.
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat was in critical condition Monday and put on a ventilator at a Jerusalem hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
Seventy-nine percent of Saudis are in favor of a normalization deal with Israel within the next five years, a stunning pollfound, and more than 70 percent of respondents from four Arab nations going as far as to say Arab states will normalize ties without a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
President Donald Trump shared a tweet describing New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio as “an anti-Semite thug,” and seemed to compare the NYPD's handling of protests by Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn with scenes of historical Jew hatred.
YouTube has removed the channel of the Nation of Islam, the organization led by notorious anti-Semitic demagogue Louis Farrakhan.
Israel and the UAE’s top diplomats visited the Holocaust Memorial in central Berlin on Tuesday, in a “historic” first meeting between the newly allied foreign ministers. Gabi Ashkenazi and Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan joined German Foreign Minister
The Palestinian Authority's official al-Hayat al-Jadida daily published a front-page editorial claiming President Donald Trump may have "fabricated" his COVID19 diagnosis in order to garner sympathy and avoid his upcoming debate with Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, on Sunday warned a Joe Biden victory would have serious consequences for Israel and the Gulf states, especially with regards to Iran.
Spiritual advisor to President Donald Trump, PastorPaula White-Cain, topped the first annual list of Israel’s Top 50 Christian Allies, released Thursday bythe Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) in honor of the upcoming Jewish festival of Sukkot.
A new ad by the Jewish Democratic Council of America comparing President Trump's America to 1930s Nazi Germany has sparked outrage -- and support -- from antisemitism watchdog czars.
Star of the progressive left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has come under fire forwithdrawing from an event commemorating late-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, including by Rabin's own granddaughter who accused the Democratic senator of surrendering to populism.
Another U.S.-brokered normalizationdeal between Israel and an Arab country is expected to be signed in the "next day or two," US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said in an interview with Al-Arabiya Wednesday.
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that more peace deals with Israel, like the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements signed with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, were "coming fast.
A weapons depot belonging to the Hezbollah terror group in southern Lebanon exploded on Tuesday, sending shockwaves through the nation just weeks after a similar explosion decimated the port of Beirut.
Israel has surpassed the U.S. in coronavirus cases per capita, according to data released Monday fromJohns Hopkins University.
Honduras will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and Israel will open an embassy in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa by the end of 2020, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement released early Monday.
The first country in the world to do so, Israel imposed a second national lockdown hours before the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
A volley of 13 rockets from Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip were fired at southern Israel before dawn on Wednesday, in apparent responseto Israel signing peace deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at a White House ceremony earlier in the evening.
Rockets fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip injured six people Tuesday evening, in what appeared to be in protest over the concurrent signing of the peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain which the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group has called an act of "aggression.
At least five or six countries are ready to make peace with Israel, PresidentDonald Trump said at a press briefing alongsidePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the signing of the historic normalization between the Jewish state, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The peace accords between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will bring an end to the Israeli-Arab conflict once and for all, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahusaid at the historic White House signing ceremony.
The Palestinians need to want to help themselves and understand that the normalization deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel will aid their cause if they allowed it to, asenior Emirati diplomat told The Times of Israel ahead of the inking of the deal at a White House ceremony on Tuesday.
Iran is plotting to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to South Africa to avenge the killing of senior Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, thePoliticonews site reported Sunday.
New legislation against theInternational Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is being advanced at the Knesset, and would allow Israel to use all means necessary in defending U.S.
Israel will go on a nationwide lockdown for three weeks over the High Holiday period beginning on the eve of the Jewish New Year on Friday, the coronavirus cabinet announced Sunday evening after an hours-long debate on the matter.
Oman on Sunday welcomed the normalization deal between Bahrain and Israel, saying it hopes it will contribute to peace throughout the region, state media reported.
The Palestinian Authority as well as the Hamas terror group have both lambasted the Israeli-Bahraini normalization accord as another “stab in the back” and act of “aggression” by an Arab country.
Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday warned the Palestinians if they continue to reject President Donald Trump's peace proposal for solving the conflict with Israel, their plight will worsen because Israel will continue building on West Bank territory earmarked for a Palestinian state.
Ahead of next week's signing of the historic U.S.-brokered normalization accord between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism has instructed hotels to begin providing kosher food in preparation for the influx of Israeli and Jewish tourists expected to visit the Gulf nation.
Chad told Israel on Tuesday that it plans to open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem within a year, making it the fourth countryto do so in the past week.
The leaders of the Hezbollah and Hamas terror groups met recently to discuss how to build a united front against Israel and counter normalization between the Jewish state and the Arab world.
Malawi announced Saturday that it would open an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the third country to do so over the weekend.
The Muslim-majority Balkan nation of Kosovo has agreed, along with neighboring Serbia, to establish full diplomatic relations will Israel and will open embassies in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.
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