Israel and Nicaragua restored diplomatic ties on Wednesday, seven years after Nicaragua severed relations following the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010. News of the reconciliation followed an announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night that the Jewish state would be reestablishing ties with an unnamed nation within a week, The Jerusalem...

The United Kingdom’s international trade minister is in Israel for the first meeting of the new UK-Israel Trade Working Group, on the same day Britain chose to notify the European Union of its intention to leave. Lord Price will meet Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen on Wednesday,...

At the Israel Innovation Showcase at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC earlier this week, more than 18,000 Israel advocates learned about a technology to extract water from air; an Arab-Israeli business accelerator; a touch-free smartphone; a user-friendly security system for public venues; and a dance program breaching...

The Texas Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday barring the state from contracting with businesses that boycott Israel, placing increased pressure on a Dallas-based banking giant to cut ties with an activist group that targets Israel for economic warfare, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL),...

The Israeli navy will add an extra Iron Dome battery to each of its four new surface ships in order to guard its natural gas fields from Hezbollah, Defense News reported Tuesday. A senior naval officer explained that due to Hezbollah’s growing arsenal of 122mm Grad-type rockets and longer-range weapons systems, Israel will...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has acquired new, more powerful rockets that could severely threaten Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported Tuesday. The rockets carry hundreds of kilograms of explosive material and have a short range of a few kilometers, similar to the range of mortar shells, according...