Four Palestinian men were found dead in a collapsed smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, local authorities said on Sunday, blaming the Egyptian military for flooding the pathway. The four men “were found dead after the tunnel they were working in was flooded nine days ago...

Mideast Envoys Think Jimmy Carter’s Peace Proposal is Nuts After publishing an op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday calling on President Barack Obama to recognize Palestinian statehood and support efforts in the United Nations Security Council to set parameters for a peace agreement, former President Jimmy Carter was the...

George Mitchell, the former Democratic Senate Majority Leader who served as President Obama’s Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, said in an interview Thursday that he disagreed with President Jimmy Carter’s New York Times op-ed published earlier this week, which suggested that Obama impose terms of an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord through...

Israel and the European Union are in advanced talks over convening a bilateral ministerial forum in 2017 for the first time since 2012, according to a senior EU official. Speaking to the Times of Israel, Nicholas Westcott, the director of the EU External Action Service’s North Africa and Middle East department,...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and PayPal have announced a new partnership to conduct joint research and development in the fields of big data, machine learning, and cybersecurity. It is the first such collaboration between PayPal and an Israeli university. “This partnership will allow PayPal to leverage BGU’s top-notch...

Three Israeli startups—UpRight, Biop Medical, and TytoCare—took home top honors at the fifth annual Medica App Competition, held last month during Medica, the world’s leading medical trade fair. Development teams from all over the world traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany to compete in Medica’s annual challenge to create the “Best Medical Mobile...