The Iran-backed Houthi rebels dissolved Yemen’s parliament and issued a series of decrees calling for a transitional government for a two-year period. Al Arabiya reports: One of the decrees mandated the establishment of a transitional national council that would replace the Yemeni parliament. Supporters, who convened in the capital of...

An Iranian diplomat was expelled from Uruguay two weeks ago after a bomb detonated near the Israeli embassy there, according to a report published in Ha’aretz today. Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the...

Within a few years, you may be traveling in a car with nobody at the wheel. Whether you call it an autonomous, driverless, or self-driving vehicle, this automobile of the near-future needs a host of complex components, some now under development at Israeli companies and academic laboratories. “You will be...

Palestinian journalists operating in both Gaza and the West Bank are subject to high levels of intimidation, according to a report published Tuesday in Al-Monitor. The report cited a study by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms from 2014, which “found that 80% of Palestinian journalists in the West Bank...

In the dangerous war against poaching animals and natural resources in Africa, Israeli expertise is tipping the scales in favor of the good guys. On one side are the bad guys: poachers who slaughter elephants for their ivory, capture African Grey parrots and other prized animals, and strip forests bare....

Along with his Ivy League diplomas, a second-grade “master gardener” certificate hangs on the wall of Rehovot patent attorney Sandy Colb’s office. Now 66, the former Cleveland schoolboy went on to cultivate a unique farm-based philanthropy. Through his Tov V’Hameitiv Foundation, Colb partners with 70 Israeli social-service agencies to distribute...