“Israel receives more international legitimacy today than it has since independence,” Israel’s chief envoy to the Arab world, a Druze deputy minister in the governing coalition, said in a profile published Monday in Tablet. Ayoob Kara, a Druze member of the Likud and Israel’s Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation, added that “our relations with our neighbors are...

A video reportedly showing a drone operated by Hezbollah attacking a number of targets near Aleppo was released by a media source close to the terrorist group on Tuesday. Three separate attacks are seen in the video: the first is described as targeting “a [rebel] leader’s base,” the second is against a...

Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor is being consider by the United States Army to defend deployed troops, Defense News reported Tuesday. Iron Dome was primarily produced by the Israeli defense giant Rafael, but many of its component systems were provided by the American defense contractor Raytheon. That company has now built...

SayVU, a new app that allows a user to send a distress signal even if a phone is locked, is being used at the Rio Olympics as part of its security initiatives. The app got its start as a student project at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. SayVU allows users to...

A Palestinian man who intervened to save children from a terror attack has been fired from his job due to local opposition to his actions, The Times of Israel reported Monday. In response, Yochai Damari, the head of the Har Havron Regional Council, the local government for Israelis living in...

Yarden Gerbi, the 2013 world judo champion and seven-time Israeli titleholder, defeated Miku Tashiro of Japan to win the Olympic bronze medal in the women’s under-63 kilogram (139 pound) class Tuesday. She is the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal since windsurfer Shahar Tzuberi won a bronze medal in...