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Massive protests have erupted in Iran with in recent days as the country’s economic crisis worsens, with many Iranians blaming the government’s costly foreign interventions as the root of their economic ills.

A bill that would ban the advertisement of tobacco products was approved by the Knesset Economics Committee on Thursday.

Children taken from their undocumented parents will soon be living in tent cities along the Texas-Mexico border, including Tornillo, about 40 miles east of El Paso. The Tornillo facility is one of several to house nearly 2,000 children separated from their parents as a result of a “zero tolerance” policy on border enforcement announced by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April.

The Israeli-American Council’s Las Vegas branch held a friendly match with its Argentinian counterpart in a display of unity and friendship following the cancellation of an Israeli-Argentinian soccer match in Jerusalem earlier this month.

In a video clip posted to Facebook with Farsi subtitles, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to the Iranian people, offering to help them solve the problem of drought that is plaguing the country.

The city of Oviedo, the capital of Spain’s Asturias region, has purportedly canceled an upcoming concert by Israel’s NK Orchestra and a ballet performance.

American Jewish groups expressed mixed reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on a controversial Colorado baker’s refusal to serve a gay couple.

American and European leaders expressed their solidarity with Israel on Tuesday in the face of dozens of rockets and mortars fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip.

More than two-dozen mortar shells were fired in three waves from Gaza at Israeli civilians on Tuesday morning, the largest attack on Jewish communities since the 2014 “Operation Protective Edge.”

Jewish organizations welcomed legislation introduced by group of bipartisan lawmakers on Wednesday that seeks to codify a working definition of anti-Semitism into the American education system.

The Israeli Defense Forces struck 35 “terror sites” in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon local time after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terror groups fired at least 28 mortars at on southern Israel earlier in the day—the largest barrage since 2014.

In a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will provide the Romanian Romaero company with licensing and training to produce its own air-defense systems.

Ron Dermer might have been the least well-rested among the hundreds of people gathered to celebrate one of the most historic dates on the Jewish state’s calendar, but Israel’s ambassador to the United States had a crucial task in front of him. After having been on hand for the much-anticipated opening Monday of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the American-born Dermer was back in Washington, D.C., that night to officially give thanks to the American people and the chief executive who made the celebration possible, President Donald Trump.

Republican senators who came to Israel for the official opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem seemed troubled by the lack of Democratic representation at the May 14 event.

Embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told a Washington audience Sunday that President Donald Trump’s words after last year’s deadly white supremacist march in

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas attempted to walk back anti-Semitic remarks made earlier in the week, when he argued that Jewish persecution in Europe had been caused by Jewish social behavior, not by religion.

The remains of Private Livka Shefer, who fell during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence battles near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, were finally found after an extensive army investigation, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit on Sunday.

Mentioning President Donald Trump on stage at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference this year was a surefire way to earn cheers and applause from the audience.

A massive anonymous attack on Syrian military installations overnight on Sunday rocked the country so severely that the explosions registered on seismic charts.

In an event organized by the Orthodox Union, a record 2,000 people attended a day of learning at Citi Field, the New York Mets’ stadium.

Samuel Klausner’s lived a full life — and he’s working on a book at the age of 94 — but he’s still got stories to tell about his service during the 1948 War of Independence.

For the first time, the head of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) arrived in Israel for an official meeting with top Israeli military officials.

More than four in 10 millennials believe that substantially fewer than 6 million Jews (2 million or fewer) were killed during the Holocaust, according to a survey conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference).

The number of Jews alive today is still lower than it was in 1939, prior to the Holocaust, according to recently released figures from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.