Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) has entered into an agreement to provide Barak-8 advanced defense systems – jointly developed by Israel and India – to Israel Navy’s Sa’ar-6 corvettes to protect its economic zones and strategic facilities faced with diversified marine threats, The Economic Times reported Thursday. Barak-8 is an...

Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, a Kenyan-born Israeli citizen, won a hard-fought 10,000-meter race in Berlin taking home Israel’s first ever track gold in a men’s or women’s event at the European Athletics Championships, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Salpeter finished in 31 minutes, 43.29 seconds – nine seconds ahead of...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Wednesday called on residents of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to maintain the relative quiet along the border with Israel that has been in place this week, The Times of Israel reported. Liberman made the comments hours after Israel reopened the main cargo crossing into...

The United States Congress approved new legislation that would force foreign-owned media organizations, such as Qatar’s Al Jazeera, to register as a foreign agent under U.S. regulations. The National Defense Authorization Act has now been signed into law by President Donald Trump, which will require the federal government to more...

In a speech Monday that addressed Iran’s troubled economy and the 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that he would “prohibit” talks with the United States, The New York Times reported. In an apparent response to President Donald Trump’s tweet, “Iran, and it’s economy, is going very bad,...

United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said in a statement that the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, must stop the bias agenda against Israel at the UN Human Rights Council, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. “The UN has failed...