Israel

Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet had a busy day Wednesday in Israel: a state cabinet meeting, signing a bill on anti-Semitism and a visit to an industrial park in the Israeli-occupied West Bank....

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is leading a huge delegation to Israel beginning Saturday that includes a state Cabinet meeting inside the controversial new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. But is that meeting a violation of Florida’s...

The largest pro-Israel lobbying group held its annual conference this week. Several Democratic candidates for president promised to skip the meeting of AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, because of its support for...

A graduate student from Florida won her appeal in Israel’s Supreme Court Thursday; that means Lara Alqasem is no longer forbidden from entering Israel and can enroll in Hebrew University. Alqasem had been detained at...

Update: Israel has ordered Florida resident Lara Alqasem to be deported, but on Friday her mother told WMNF that she is appealing that deportation and is still being detained at Ben Gurion airport. She expects...

An American graduate student from South Florida has been detained in Israel and risks deportation; her mother is asking for answers. Lara Alqasem is in Israel to attend graduate School at Hebrew University in human...

Several states are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for putting on hold an Obama-era rule to protect wetlands and waterways. And this month an organization of wetlands...

Is a wider war about to break out in the Middle East and Southwest Asia? There are already conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Northern Iraq and other parts of the region. Some call it a proxy...

Radioactivity 4 12 18 Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Yesterday President Trump suggested that an attack on Syria was imminent, after a reported chemical weapons attack on civilians in that country last week. Russia...

2 7 17 Good morning, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Today —we get the perspective of an American professor who has spent forty years traveling to Iran. President Trump has had some tough...

Many students in the West Bank and Gaza strip have a difficult time accessing higher education – because of barriers to funding or travel; so on Saturday Tampa will be the site of one of a...

On Sunday Palestinians marked the anniversary of being uprooted sixty-eight years ago — the Nakba. When Israel was created in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven out of their land. Now there...