Congress must do more to fund Israel’s missile defense systems due to Iran’s continued development of ballistic missiles and its commitment to destroy Israel, Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Texas) wrote in The New York Times on Friday. Cruz, who recently suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, criticized the Obama administration...

Former President Bill Clinton said that he went to great lengths to secure a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians while he was in office, but that the Palestinians rejected the offer. “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that...

A team of scientists from Israel, Singapore, and Switzerland has reported a major advance in the physics of perovskite solar cells – a new class of hybrid materials that is creating a revolution in solar energy technology. Unlike most other solar devices, where efficiency worsens as temperature rises, the research team—including Profs. Jeffrey M. Gordon and...

Mustafa Badreddine, a Hezbollah commander who led their operations in Syria and was accused of planning multiple large-scale terror attacks, was killed in a bomb blast, the Iran-backed terror organization confirmed Friday. Badreddine was killed in an explosion near the Damascus airport that also injured several other people, Hezbollah officials...

British specialist healthcare company BTG has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Galil Medical, a global leader in delivering innovative cryotherapy solutions for kidney and other cancers. The deal is said to be worth up to $110 million. Galil Medical owns, manufactures and sells a portfolio...

Israelis rank among the happiest nations in the world, despite living in a hostile region, and the explanation why “probably lies in indicators not considered in standard surveys,” Avinoam Bar-Yosef wrote (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Bar-Yosef, a former chief diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, and currently founding...