A gate-shrine from the First Temple period uncovered at Tel Lachish National Park near Mount Hebron has been hailed by Israeli archaeologists as “an important and unusual discovery” that provides compelling evidence for the biblical account of King Hezekiah’s efforts to abolish worship there. The northern part of the 24.5-by-24.5-meter (80×80-foot) gate...

eBay has agreed to purchase Corrigon, a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in visual searches, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. No terms have been announced, but the financial website The Marker estimated the deal to be worth $30 million. eBay acquired another Israeli company, SalesPredict, earlier this year. Corrigon’s visual algorithms allow a...

The United Kingdom has frozen roughly $30 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority over concerns that taxpayer money is being used to pay the salaries of Palestinian terrorists, The Sun reported Friday. The move comes after an investigative report published in the Mail on Sunday in March and another released by the Overseas Development Institute think-tank in June found that British aid money...

Rony Malka, director of law enforcement for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA), received a 2016 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award at the 17th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Monday in Johannesburg. He...

Six residents of the village of Ghajar on the Golan Heights were accused on Thursday of planning a terror attack in Israel with help from the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Diab Kahamuz, the alleged ringleader, was caught after he apparently forgot where he hid the explosives he received from Hezbollah. The explosives were found...

More than 8,300 needy Vietnamese citizens received humanitarian and medical aid in the remote Kon Tum province from the Israeli Embassy in Hanoi and the Family Medical Practice (FMP), a chain of clinics in Vietnam founded and headed by an Israeli physician, during a week-long mission last month. “It’s a drop in...