Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, has prohibited a senior United Nations official from leaving Gaza, the Associated Press reported Thursday. A UN source told the AP that Mahmoud Daher, the head of the World Health Organization’s Gaza office, was barred from exiting the strip due to a newly-instituted bureaucratic rule. Hamas, which has ruled...

Graduates of the Microsoft Ventures Israel Accelerator, which operates as part of Microsoft’s R&D center, raised nearly $9 million in funds or investment offers during the mentoring program. The startups are in fields as varied as e-commerce, tourism, advertising, medicine, and agricultural technology. The Accelerator program is designed to take...

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Sen. Robert Kennedy who acted out of anger at Kennedy’s support for Israel, has been denied parole for the 15th time. Sirhan shot Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after the senator won the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary. “This crime impacted the nation, and I daresay...

When the Spanish soccer superclub Real Madrid—the world’s most valuable sports franchise, according to Forbes—decided to beef up their official mobile app, they turned to Sportech Interactech, the Spanish subsidiary of the Israeli company Interacting Technology. Sportech Interactech plans to use its tech expertise to acquire more users, enhance interactions among Real fans,...

Bipartisan bills have been introduced into both houses of Congress that would protect the rights of state and local governments to withdraw their business from companies or entities that engage in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The bill, known as the Combating BDS Act of 2016, is sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk...

A Palestinian band praised bus bombings and called for the resumption of suicide attacks against Israelis in a music video published online on Sunday. The al-Wa’ed Band’s video, which was translated by the Middle East Research Institute, opens with an image of Yahya Ayyash, a chief Hamas bombmaker who was assassinated by...