As Israel’s economic ties expand across East Asia, so does the popularity of the Jewish state’s food products. Costco stores throughout Japan hosted an Israeli food festival last week, featuring pita, matza, Wissotsky teas, Angel cookies, Adafresh spices, Hanasich tahini, and a variety of Israeli wines. The festival was sponsored by the...

Iran will be renewing financial support to the Gaza-based terror organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad after two years of strained relations, the Arabic-language London newspaper a-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday. The move comes a month after a delegation of Islamic Jihad officials, headed by leader Ramadan Shalah, visited Iran. The delegation praised...

More than 5,500 startups are operating in Israel today, with 1,400 new ones founded just last year, creating innovative new high-tech products in fields such as software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and 3D printing. A video report for Bloomberg Businessweek took viewers inside Israel’s thriving startup scene. Israel has been able to...

Israeli officials intercepted a Gaza-bound shipment of metal pipes and motors that could have been used by Hamas to build rockets and tunnels, Israel’s Defense Ministry announced Thursday. The shipment contained “hundreds of pipes with a diameter under four inches, with a special kind of screw that is used for the production...

Two Israeli filmmakers took home prizes at the Cannes Film Festival this week. Or Sinai, a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem, and Asaph Polonsky, who was born in the U.S. but raised in Israel, pocketed rave reviews for their works. Polonsky’s debut film, One Week and a...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on the Lebanese terror group to fight a war of “comprehensive resistance” against Israel in a speech on Tuesday, the 16th anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. On May 24, 2000, Israel withdrew from its security zone in southern Lebanon, bringing it into compliance with United...