As 2.4 billion people face severe water shortages in the world, desalination and water-purification technologies are in hot demand – many of them invented in Israel, a global leader in desalination. The most common method of reverse osmosis using membranes is costly, energy-intensive, high-maintenance, and environmentally problematic. It is best...

A Palestinian sheikh at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque urged “the nation of Islam” to overthrow Muslim rulers, eliminate Israel with nuclear strikes, then spread Islam globally in an address posted online last week. “The Muslims’ reaction to Trump’s victory was: ‘Hopefully, he will destroy [the U.S.] and sit on its ruins....

Israeli authorities are investigating the origin of what they believe is a wave of arson attacks across the country as firefighters work to bring several fires under control, including a massive series of blazes in the port city of Haifa, where at least 75,000 people have been evacuated. Israel police...

Belgium is turning to Israel for advice as the country looks to improve the security procedures at Brussels Airport, where 16 people were killed in March after an ISIS-inspired suicide bombing. Belgian authorities are looking at the security measures employed at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel in order to learn...

A Royal Navy warship arrived Tuesday in the northern Israeli port of Haifa, following joint sea exercises with Israeli counterparts. The HMS Bulwark is part of the Royal Navy’s Joint Expeditionary Force (Maritime) Task Group and has been patrolling the eastern Mediterranean for several months. The visit to Haifa comes just...

Egyptian-Israeli relations are at their “highest level in history,” regional analysts told the Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera on Monday, with Cairo and Jerusalem having forged a “full partnership and unbreakable alliance.” The two countries share mutual defense concerns, particularly the extensive coordination between Hamas and Sinai Province, an ISIS affiliate...