Jerusalem – The leader of Israel’s venerable Labor party says he won’t seek re-election as party chairman. Avi Gabbay announced on Tuesday he won’t run in the upcoming vote for party leader ahead of the Sept. 17 general election. Under Gabbay, the party that founded Israel sunk to an all-time low of just six seats [...]

New York – The New York Times announced that it will no longer publish daily political cartoons in its international edition, in the wake of backlash over a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered anti-Semitic. In the announcement made on Monday, the Times ended its relationship with two contract cartoonists. The international edition [...]

New York – Authorities have identified the remains of a 9/11 victim found at the World Trade Center. The New York City medical examiners’ office on Monday said the man is the 1,643rd person to be identified nearly 18 years after hijackers crashed airplanes into the trade center’s twin towers in 2001. The victim’s name, [...]

Beirut – A U.S. permanent resident and Lebanese businessman who was imprisoned for years in Iran has been freed and is on his way back to his native Lebanon, an official in Beirut said Tuesday. Nizar Zakka, held in Iran since 2015, was on a plane accompanied by the chief of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate, [...]

Jerusalem – Israeli and Palestinian forces have engaged in a rare shootout in the West Bank. Palestinian officials say one officer was lightly wounded in Tuesday’s gunfight, which erupted overnight in the city of Nablus. Despite poor political relations, Israel and the Palestinians maintain close security cooperation in the West Bank in a shared struggle [...]

Warsaw – Jozef Klotz, a Polish Jewish soccer player who scored the national team’s first ever goal in an international match but was later murdered by the Nazis, was honored by Poland’s soccer association on Monday. The commemoration took place hours before Poland’s Euro 2020 qualifier match against Israel in Warsaw. In May 1922, Klotz, [...]

Pyongyang – Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The Journal cited an unnamed “person knowledgeable about the matter” for the report, and said many details [...]

Washington – Congressional Democrats on Monday struck a rare deal in their wide-ranging probes of President Donald Trump, with the U.S. Justice Department agreeing to hand over more evidence from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry. The compromise, an unusual retreat by Trump in his months-long stonewalling campaign against House Democrats, came just before a [...]

Washington – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently promised a group of Jewish leaders in New York that the Trump administration would make efforts to protect British Jews if Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn is elected Prime Minister, The Washington Post reported over the weekend. The Post obtained audio recordings of the closed-door meeting between [...]

San Diego – A California lottery ticket worth $530 million in the Mega Millions draw was sold at a liquor store in San Diego. The winner of Friday’s drawing will have to decide whether to receive the estimated $530 million jackpot in 30 installments or its $345.2 million cash value. The California State Lottery says [...]