An Israeli financial technology startup is on a mission to make banking and financial activities easier and cheaper for migrant workers. Neema, in collaboration with MasterCard, has launched a debit card system that does not have transfer or foreign currency exchange rate fees, dramatically reducing the cost migrant workers pay to send...

At least four Arab nations voted in favor of Israel’s successful and historic candidacy to head a major United Nations committee, the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported earlier this week. Committee chairs are normally approved by consensus, but Danon’s candidacy, sponsored by the Western Europe and Others group of UN members, was protested by...

A former IDF general warned Israelis on Tuesday that the next war with the Iran-backed Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah would lead to a barrage of rockets into Israel on an order of magnitude higher than anything Israel has yet faced. Major General (res.) Yitzhak Gershon, who served as the head of...

Israel’s technology sector has greatly matured in the past few years and is now second only to Silicon Valley when it comes to diversity of initiatives, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, said while visiting Google’s research and development center in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. “I’m amazed to see how...

The U.S. ambassador to Israel said Washington will “vigorously oppose and counter” the “pernicious” Palestinian-led campaign to boycott Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, who was addressing the 16th annual Herzliya Conference, added that “no one should have any doubt that the policy of the U.S. government” is to fight...

A media watchdog blasted a report in The Independent that falsely accused Israel of cutting off drinking water to Palestinians in the West Bank during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The report, written by freelancer Peter Yeung and published Wednesday, alleged that tens of thousands of Palestinians were being denied water resources...