Two Israeli nonprofits are among 30 international winners of Impact Challenge grants from Google to promote technological innovations that will make the world more accessible for people with disabilities. Beit Issie Shapiro in Ra’anana received two grants. The first, for $1,000,000, was to develop a free product that will allow people with limited...

The Israeli military has stepped up its efforts to locate terror tunnels inside the Gaza Strip in the last week, Walla reported Thursday. Despite claims to the contrary by Hamas, Israeli authorities said they never agreed to stop using bulldozers or other heavy equipment on the Gazan side of the border fence as long as the threat of tunneling persisted. The...

One of the stars of the Netflix hit series Orange is the New Black is visiting Israel in honor of Tel Aviv’s gay pride week and seems to be amazed by the attractiveness of local women. “There are apparently no ugly women in Israel,” Lea DeLaria told Ynet shortly after arriving on Tuesday. Int'l...

Italy has sent its largest ever delegation of researchers and academics to meet with their counterparts in Israel this week, defying calls by anti-Israel campaigners to cut ties with the Jewish state. Nearly 100 Italian academics, including representatives of the Italian Conference of Rectors, a group of the leaders of major Italian...

The leading international online payment service PayPal has shut down the account of France’s largest anti-Israel boycott group, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Weinthal confirmed the closure by clicking on the PayPal donation link on the website of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign in France and getting the...

In mid-May, a small strip of the Mediterranean coast was transformed into an arena of coexistence and fun as the Israeli martial-arts nonprofit organization Budo for Peace hosted its second annual International Martial Arts Friendship Training. Martial-arts experts from Jordan, Japan and Senegal joined the gathering of Israeli Jews, Muslims,...