Two Technion mechanical engineering students in Haifa literally rolled out their senior project last week – the unicycle Adventure Stretcher – designed to help emergency medical services and search-and-rescue teams evacuate victims from off-road areas inaccessible to vehicles and helicopters. Built in collaboration with Segal Bikes and Israeli voluntary EMS...

Former Israeli Foreign minister Tzipi Livni criticized UNESCO for passing resolutions against Israel, on the eve of the 41st annual UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s conference in Poland. Speaking at the UNESCO International Conference on the Empowerment of Women in Paris on Friday, Livni, a member of the opposition Zionist Union...

Empow, SafeBreach and Optimal+ were among Israeli companies cited in information technology research and advisory company Gartner’s 2017 Cool Vendors listing. Each year Gartner releases its Cool Vendors picks based on its research into worldwide providers that are changing the digital paradigm in areas such as data science and machine learning, threat...

A leading American Reform rabbi said that the best approach to the controversy over canceled plans for an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, or Western Wall, would be for American Jews to become more engaged with Israel. Rabbi Richard Block, a former president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ)...

Students, professors and alumni of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology now have a new way to finance their cutting-edge projects: a $200 million venture capital fund focused on creating companies out of the research conducted at the Haifa-based university. The new fund is a joint venture between the Technion Research...

Iran used a Star of David as a target for one of its ballistic missile tests last year, Israel told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon distributed satellite photographs showing the target with a crater next to it, The Times of Israel...