Israel is set to open its first diplomatic-level mission in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported on Friday. Israel’s mission will be officially accredited to the newly formed International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), a global organization that encourages governments to adopt various forms of sustainable energy. Israeli...

The Israeli Ministry of Economy recently inaugurated a new Osaka branch in a sign of strengthening economic relations between Israel and Japan. The office will serve as an executive branch of the Israeli trade mission in Tokyo for meetings and for creating opportunities with local companies in the Kansai region...

Israel’s Interior Minister Silvan Shalom has issued an entry visa to the exiled and openly gay Iranian poet Payam Feili, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Feili, who was persecuted in Iran for his sexuality as well as his professed admiration for Israel, has been living in Turkey for the past...

When 130 people were killed and 368 injured in a series of terror attacks in Paris earlier this November, 15 clinicians trained by Israeli experts fanned out to area hospitals to offer psychotrauma interventions as the victims were brought in. These French mental-health professionals from OSE, the largest Jewish welfare...

Over the next year, BioBee Biological Systems at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu in northern Israel will ship some 600 million specially bred predatory mites to farmers in Colombia as a natural form of pest control. Using the Phytoseiulus persimilis, the most effective natural predator of Tetranychus urticae (red spider mite), will...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Israel has every right in the world to defend itself and it has an obligation to defend itself,” while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here. And for...