The South African government has called on its national beauty pageant winner to boycott this year’s Miss Universe contest due to its location in Israel, citing “atrocities against Palestinians.”
Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, will take part in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel despite attacks by anti-Israel activists calling on the beauty queen to boycott the event.
Canadian megastar Justin Bieber’s production company announced Monday he will perform in Tel Aviv next year, sparking outrage from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
A Turkish court has extended custody of an Israeli couple who were detained Friday on suspicion of espionage after being caught taking photographs of the Istanbul palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, deemed an illegal act.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told a visiting delegation of Democratic members of congress he will not give permission to the U.S. to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem.
The Biden administration has come under fire for abstaining on a U.N. General Assembly resolution affirming the so-called right of return for Palestinian refugees to sovereign Israel, a move former President Trump’s envoy to Israel said could effectively “destroy the Jewish state.”
Israel’s ambassador to the UK was evacuated under heavy security from the London School of Economics on Tuesday evening after pro-Palestinian protesters tried to attack her.
The West Ham soccer team banned two supporters from attending its matches after a group of the club’s fans were filmed singing an anti-Semitic song as a Jewish man walked on a plane.
A Jewish newlywed woman from Brooklyn discovered her new husband is apparently a Palestinian-Lebanese Muslim who had been posing as a Jew, only two weeks after the couple tied the knot.
The Israeli military’s chief of staff on Monday warned that the army was accelerating plans for a potential attack against Iran’s nuclear program.
The Israeli Mossad spy agency foiled an attack against Israeli tourists and businesspeople on behalf of Iran, resulting in the arrest of several people in African nations, an Israeli TV network reported Sunday.
Vice President Kamala Harris condemned singling out Israel “because of anti-Jewish hatred” at an address at the Anti-Defamation League’s Never is Now summit on antisemitism.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid delivered a clear message to President Joe Biden on Saturday: Open a consulate for the Palestinians, but in Ramallah, not Jerusalem.
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) has pledged if the Republicans gain control of Congress next year, anti-boycott laws against Israel could pass on the federal level.
The Israeli Knesset approved the 2022 state budget Friday – the first one to pass in over three years, marking a key win for the disparate coalition led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
Israel has started launching a giant new balloon equipped with advanced aerial surveillance aimed at detecting missiles in the north of the country, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
An Israeli minister was unable to attend the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow earlier this week because of her wheelchair, prompting furor and a belated apology by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Two-hundred Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their opposition to the reopening of the U.S. consulate in eastern Jerusalem, which formerly served as a de factor Palestinian embassy before being permanently shuttered by the Trump administration following its declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2018.
Tourists are now allowed entry into Israel for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, as long as they can show proof of vaccination. Israeli authorities recognize most vaccines enough to allow immediate entry into the country,
The threat of war is the only chance of pressuring Iran into a diplomatic process, former Middle East peacemaker under the Clinton and Obama administrations, Dennis Ross, wrote in an oped in Foreign Policy magazine.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan ripped up a report by the U.N. Human Rights Council during an address at the U.N. General Assembly, slamming the global rights body for its “obsessive anti-Israel bias.”
Israel on Sunday launched a large-scale simulation of war in preparation for a confrontation against Iran or its Lebanese terrorist proxy, Hezbollah.
European countries, together with the UK, on Thursday joined the U.S. in lambasting Israel for its decision to construct more than 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and called for the plan to be scrapped — despite the fact the Israeli government has also approved a record 1,000 Palestinian homes.
More than 200 celebrities, including actors Mila Kunis, Billy Porter, Neil Patrick Harris, Zachary Quinto and Helen Mirren, signed an open letter this week denouncing cultural boycotts of Israel.
Florida is divesting all public funds from Ben & Jerry’s over the ice cream giant’s “anti-Semitic” decision to stop sales in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
The Israeli Air Force will begin training for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program at the start of 2022, the Times of Israel reported on Monday.
Israel deemed six major Palestinian “human rights” organizations as terrorist groups on Friday, prompting backlash from the Biden administration which said it wasn’t informed of the move ahead of time – a charge a senior Israeli defense official has denied.
A narrow majority (53 percent) of Israelis believe the Biden administration is worse for Israel than that of Donald Trump, a new poll found.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received an invite from UAE Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to make an official state visit to Abu Dhabi. It will be the premier’s first since the two countries established ties as part of the Trump-led Abraham Accords last year.
Hundreds of naked men and women painted head to toe in white stood in a stretch of desert near the Dead Sea this week, as part of the latest installation by American photographer Spencer Tunick.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid misled the Biden administration on the reopening of the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem, sparking tension between the two allies, an Israeli media outlet reported Sunday.
The Biden administration’s continued appeasement of Iran may leave Israel with no choice but to attack its nuclear facilities, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned the Biden administration is not taking the Iranian threat seriously enough and does not have a backup plan in the case a return to the 2015 nuclear deal collapses entirely, a senior Israeli official told Al Monitor.
The eponymous founders of Ben & Jerry’s were left flummoxed when accused of hypocrisy over the company’s recent decision to stop selling its products in Israel, in what has been dubbed a “car-crash” interview with Axios on HBO.
Israel does not practice apartheid and neither does it “occupy” the West Bank, former U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo said during a visit to the area on Sunday.
Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said talks surrounding a return to the nuclear deal have entered “very decisive weeks,” and warned every day without an accord would see the regime in Tehran continue to enrich uranium.
An investment group led by actor Ashton Kutcher will invest in an Israeli company that cultivates lab-grown, 3D-printed meat.
A Jewish singer wearing a Star of David necklace was denied service at a German hotel Tuesday, sparking hundreds of people to protest outside the establishment.
The State Department has walked back comments made last week that the Biden administration is engaged in strategic talks related to “Palestine,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday.
US health officials are studying data from Israel’s military personnel to understand the risk of heart muscle inflammation in younger people after receiving the Pfizer/BioNtech’s COVID-19 booster shot.
