Hezbollah and Iran-backed militias advanced closer to Syria’s border with Israel marking “a new expansion of Tehran’s influence” on Israel’s northeastern neighbor. The Syrian army, supported by Druze militias, and Iran-backed forces, has “pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave” approaching the border area with Israel, Reuters reported on Sunday. According to rebel sources,...

Guatemala plans to relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced on his official Facebook account on Sunday, making it the first country to mirror U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision from December 6. Morales said he had informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and instructed Guatemala’s...

On December 24, a two-day-old baby born to Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Cyprus was flown to Israel by an Israeli medical team, in order to undergo lifesaving heart surgery at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with security forces and officials from...

Israeli Paralympic athletes Caroline Tabib and Alon Nigri won gold medals in table tennis at the US Para Open Championship in Las Vegas, December 13-16. Tabib, 21, who was born paralyzed from the waist down and has been in a wheelchair all her life, beat out four competitors for the...

A number of countries supporting Thursday’s United Nations General Assembly vote against President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital have “questionable records of their own,” Jake Tapper said in a commentary during his show The Lead on CNN. Tapper singled out critics such as Venezuela, Syria, Yemen and North...

Israeli-led startup Sirin Labs signed on Barcelona soccer star Lionel “Leo” Messi as its brand ambassador prior to launching an initial coin offering “crowdsale” on December 12 that moved $144 million worth of SRN cryptocurrency tokens in seven days. Switzerland-based Sirin Labs, with R&D in Tel Aviv and an office...