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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed the UN Security Council on Tuesday to extend an arms embargo on Iran before it expires in October, prompting Russia to slam Washington's policy toward Tehran as like "putting a knee" to the country's neck.
The United States has circulated a draft resolution to the 15-member council that would indefinitely...
An “incident” damaged an under-construction building Thursday near Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, though it did not affect its centrifuge operations or cause any release of radiation, a spokesman said.
The affected building, described as an “industrial shed,” was above ground and not part of the enrichment facility itself,...
The US State Department called for “justice” one day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court refused to suspend a lower court’s ruling freeing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of being part of the 2002 killing in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, paving the way for him to walk free.
“The United States is watching...
Iran's Revolutionary Court issued a death sentence Tuesday for Ruhollah Zam, administrator of an opposition news service.
"The court has considered 13 counts of charges together as instances of 'corruption on earth' and therefore passed the death sentence," judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said.
The sentence could be appealed before the...
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday refused to suspend a lower court’s ruling freeing Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of being part of the 2002 killing in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl, paving the way for him to walk free.
The Supreme Court also declined to hear the Pakistani government’s appeal...
Israel is the first country to incorporate a breakthrough therapy developed for cancer patients suffering from an aggressive type of leukemia which, although extremely common, often leaves them with no other treatment options.
The new therapy, the first of its kind to be developed in twenty years, is by AbbVie, a research-based global...
An ancient seal and a seal impression found at an archaeological site in Jerusalem offered Israeli archaeologists a glimpse at the restoration of the city after its fall to the Babylonian armies in 6th century BCE, Israel's Antiquities Authority recently announced.
The two artifacts were discovered at the Givati Parking Lot Excavation site in the...
A loud explosion was heard in northern Tehran on Tuesday evening causing thick clouds of smoke to fill the skies, Iranian News Agency ISNA reported on Tuesday.
According to state media, the blast in question happened in the underground levels of Tehran's Sina Athar medical clinic and patients are currently still inside the building.
The head of...
A swastika was spray-painted Thursday night in white on the sidewalk in front of a US synagogue in Bangor, Maine.
Bangor police are investigating the incident.
Security camera footage taken by Congregation Beth Israel captured clear images of the teenagers who drew the swastika.
“I do hope, rather than criminal mischief or vandalism charges, we...
Brazil on Sunday appointed Luiz Fux, 67, its first Jewish Supreme Federal Court (SFC) president.
This is the second time Fux has made history in Brazil; in 2011 he became the first Jewish judge to be named to the bench at SFC.
Brazil rotates the post of chief justice among the 11 members comprising its Federal Supreme Court, a panel that decides...
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Tuesday Hezbollah's efforts to recruit spies among Israelis.
According to a press release, Beirut Hamud -- an Israeli woman from Majd al-Krum, a predominantly Arab town in Israel's north -- together with her husband, Balal Bizari, tried to recruit Israelis to spy for the Lebanese terrorist group.
The...
A group of men affiliated with the pro-Iranian Kataib Hezbollah, who had been released after a counter-terror raid several days earlier, burned the Israeli and US flags and trampled on photos of Iraq’s prime minister.
It is the latest show of force by Iranian-backed elements in Iraq – who are part of the official security forces but increasingly...
Tehran is continuing its secret program to develop nuclear weapons, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.
The Israeli PM added that Iran has been deliberately misleading the international community in regards to its nuclear ambitions.
The international community largely stood idle in the face of Iranian deceit and aggression,...
Iran has issued an arrest warrant for US President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the semi-official state news agency Fars.
The United States and Interpol both dismissed the idea of acting on such a warrant.
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A double stamp impression on a bulla and a seal made of re-used pottery shards have been unearthed in the course of archaeological excavations undertaken by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University in the Givati Parking Lot Excavation of the City of David, in the Jerusalem Walls National Park.
According to the researchers, the...
Twenty years after the first woman took to the skies as Israel’s first combat pilot, Israel’s Air Force will soon have its first female F-35 pilot, sources have told The Jerusalem Post.
She will reportedly fly in the 116th squadron, nicknamed “Lions of the South,” based out of Nevatim in southern Israel.
Israel was the first to use the F-35 in a...
A Russian spy unit paid members of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement to conduct lethal attacks on U.S. troops in that country, according to a classified American intelligence assessment, people familiar with the report said.
The assessment of the role played by Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, in fostering attacks on American...
Few people are familiar with the name of Tanya Bitler, a 63-year-old conservator at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), who moved to Israel from Russia at the end of 1990. However, her hands have been featured in media all over the planet for a unique reason: she is currently the only person in the world who can touch and handle the legendary...
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has called on the European Union to designate both the political and military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
The June 24 letter was spearheaded by Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in the U.S. Senate, and Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) in the U.S. House of...
The annual Startup Genome Ecosystem report has listed the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as the sixth most attractive ecosystem for startups and innovation. The report, which has been published every year since 2012, comes as 40% of the world’s startups report major disruption due to Covid-19.
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were ranked together...
