'If only the fathers of Israeli political elite knew that their direct descendants would fund the regime that idolizes as heroes those who executed them, and the ideologues of the Holocaust!', wrote Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

The Israeli protest movement's push into the dangerous area of questions of Jewish character serves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the split could see the emergence of a third camp, which may draw people and power from both sides

Thousands of ethnic Armenians had fled the region of Nagorno-Karabakh by Monday, after their fighters were defeated in a lightning military operation by Azerbaijan last week

The Iran-aligned Houthis were responding to accusations of killing two Bahraini army personnel and wounding several others on Monday in a drone attack on Saudi Arabia's southern border. The Saudi-led alliance condemned the attack and said it followed other recent Houthi attacks

The problem isn’t the sex segregation itself, it is that when you separate men and women, one group usually gets the bulk of space – and freedoms

The assault of Netanyahu’s Jewish fundamentalist government on democracy and every value of liberal Israel has also brought with it a culture war, a war over the Jewish identity of every Israeli Jew, and it will be exceptionably ugly

Ambassador Ziv Nevo Kulman says the Gothenburg Book Fair's tribute to Jewish culture ignores Israel, and young Swedes 'are encouraged to think that Jewish culture is limited to the Yiddish language.' An expert on Holocaust education added he saw 'a pattern of structural antisemitism' in the fair's program

As Israel and the U.S. prepare to officially announce the move, critics say Israel failed to guarantee equal travel rights to all U.S. citizens. During the pilot program, many Palestinians with American passports reported being told by Israeli security that their U.S. passports are meaningless