A female companion to the police commander was also killed while a three-year-old boy, possibly their son, was rescued when police shot and killed the assailant.

Egypt has launched a campaign to assist the poor acquire basic food packages. As usual, it is an opportunity for fly-by-night merchants to sell the low-cost packages at market prices.

Jewish groups must be wary of hiring guards from private contractors, considering gunman Omar Mateen worked for one of these agencies, Secure Community Network director says.

Trump’s militancy on Islamic terror might please right-wingers in Israel and the U.S. but his tasteless tweets and offensive comments alienate everyone else.

According to Health Ministry figures, children in Israel's Arab community consume more sweetened drinks than their Jewish counterparts. Child obesity is also more severe in the Arab community.

The key lesson of the fight against violent Islamism must be applied to Jewish radicals too: Insider religious and right-wing Jewish voices are key to dissuading their descent into violence.

When Michael Karayanni was appointed law school dean, Isaac Herzog hailed it as 'break[ing] another glass ceiling for Israel’s Arabs'. But one academic's success can't erase Israel's institutionalized racism directed at its Arab citizens.

‘Calling in political activists for friendly chats with the security service is not a practice that characterizes a democratic regime,’ the Association for Civil Rights in Israel says.