On November 19, Israel’s Supreme Court gave the government 45 days to develop effective measures to combat the evasion of military service by ultra-Orthodox Jews. Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up 14% of Israel’s population, yet they serve almost exclusively in the army. This practice had been legal for the past 70 …

On November 20, some American media outlets, citing an anonymous source, leaked a 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, passing it off as an American peace plan, supposedly formulated as a result of lengthy US negotiations with the Russian and Ukrainian sides. In reality, the document represented proposals …

Six years after the collapse of the so-called Islamic State caliphate in March 2019, dramatic leadership changes in Washington, DC and Damascus open a rare window of opportunity to end the continuing, unlawful detentions of some 26,000 foreign ISIS suspects and family members in northeast Syria. The detainees, who come …