People rarely smile as they scurry through Tel Aviv’s dreary Central Bus Station, a 25-million-square-foot architectural disaster casting a dark, dank and depressing shadow over South Tel Aviv. But now commuters’ faces are lighting up at the sight of some 30 “interventions” scattered about: funky plantings, plucky industrial design, “agro-poetry”...

America’s Middle Eastern allies are concerned that they “haven’t had their say” in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, told Luke Russert this morning in an interview (embedded below) on The Briefing on MSNBC. Hazony’s argument is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t just be representing Israel...

Iran is stepping up its offensive against rebels in southern Syria, exacerbating “the tensions on Israel’s northern border,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, and Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in an analysis published yesterday. The Iran/Hezbollah/Assad troika has long threatened to develop the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R – Ky.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nev.) when in Washington to address Congress next week, The Times of Israel reported yesterday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a meeting with a bipartisan Congressional delegation...

Israel and Jordan signed a historic water-sharing agreement on the Jordan side of the Dead Sea today, The Jerusalem Post reported. According to Thursday’s agreement, Jordan and Israel will share the potable water produced by a future desalination plant in Aqaba, from which salty brines will be piped to the...

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Israel Wednesday to inaugurate Apple’s new R&D Center in Herzliya and meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, The Times of Israel reported. “It is a great privilege to host you and your team here in Israel,” Rivlin told Cook. “Even for me, as one who...