Israel

Local media and paparazzi were caught off guard when actor and martial artists Chuck Norris appeared in Israel over the weekend. Norris, 76, was spotted at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, touring the tunnels beneath the Wall, and dining with Dore Gold, the former director-general of the Israel Foreign Ministry,...

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A delegation of 11 NFL football players are heading to Israel next week for a visit set to commence on February 13. The athletes will visit landmarks in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea and Haifa, as well as Christian holy sites in the Galilee. They will also visit the...

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The Israel Defense Forces hit three Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon, hours after a rocket fired from Gaza struck an open field just over the Israel-Gaza border. No injuries or damages were reported due to the Palestinian strike, which landed south of the Israeli city of Ashkelon. IDF...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday in London, where the two leaders spoke of ways to enhance bilateral ties and address mutual threats. At the start of his meeting with May, Netanyahu—who said he has a photo of Winston Churchill near one...

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Wix, a globally successful web-development platform that is based in Tel Aviv, is taking on the Super Bowl again with an ad campaign featuring Gal Gadot and Jason Statham. The new commercials are meant to show just how easy it is to create a web presence using the Wix platform....

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Pushing Back Against Iran After Iran conducted ballistic missile tests over the weekend despite a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Iran not to conduct such tests, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn announced on Wednesday that the United States was “officially putting Iran on notice” and would not tolerate its...

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