A 16thcentury French apothecary and seer, Nostradamus wrote over a thousand poetic quatrains compiled in his work Les Prophéties, which many interpret as prophetic forecasts of future world events.

The beverage was intended to constitute breakfast and lunch followed by a “sensible” dinner, as its television commercials advised.

It was a brisk Tuesday afternoon when Danny Danon, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations, stepped into a Washington, D.C. conference room and fielded questions from reporters ahead ...