Israel’s minister of construction signed a deal last week to build thousands of public housing units for the country’s Arab population. MK Yoav Galant (Kulanu) agreed to allocate 1.41 billion shekels ($374 million) toward building public housing for Israeli Arabs and to lift restrictions from construction on private land, Ynet reported. The deal, which was reached with...

The international charity World Vision has suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip after the director of its branch in the Palestinian territory was charged with funneling millions of dollars in aid to Hamas, Reuters reported on Friday. Israel froze World Vision’s accounts in Jerusalem following last month’s arrest of Mohammad el-Halabi, who is accused of diverting 60 percent...

The Israeli Air Force struck Syrian army positions near the border overnight Monday after a mortar shell hit the Israeli side of the Golan Heights hours earlier, Haaretz reported. Israel denied a claim by the Syrian army that it shot down two Israeli aircraft with surface-to-air missiles during the retaliatory raid. Monday’s mortar attack from Syria...

In Prof. Amir Amedi’s world-renowned Laboratory for Brain and Multisensory Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, people with vision impairment can “see” their environment with the aid of sensory substitution devices (SSDs) that provide visual information from sound and touch. Now, two of the lab’s groundbreaking inventions are being...

Israel has started constructing an underground barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip to block the Islamist terrorist group Hamas from tunneling into its territory, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Israel’s Defense Ministry in July approved a budget of NIS 2 billion or $530 million to build the concrete barrier...

Owners of a popular cabaret club near New York’s Times Square regretfully canceled a scheduled benefit for the Black Lives Matter movement after affiliated organizations published a platform claiming that Israel was committing genocide, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The owners of Feinstein’s/54 Below e-mailed benefit ticket-holders informing them of...