Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will face the challenge of having an Iranian client, Yemen, bordering on its south, Avi Issacharoff wrote in a profile of the new king on Friday for The Times of Israel. King Salman is not expected to make dramatic changes to Saudi Arabia’s foreign and defense...

In a speech Sunday night, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, praised the U.S.-Israel relationship and explained the importance of the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner to Israel’s Prime Minister of Israel to speak before a joint session of Congress on March 3. Placing a heavy emphasis on...

Cloud storage provider Dropbox has acquired Israeli startup CloudOn for an undisclosed price. The Herzliya-based cloud service offers users the tools to edit Microsoft Office documents from their mobile devices. The CloudOn team thanked its users in a blog post while announcing the buyout. “From the beginning, my co-founders and...

Saudi Arabia’s new monarch, King Salman, pledged to continue the policies of his predecessor and half-brother Abdullah, who died yesterday. Reuters reports: Salman, thought to be 79, takes over as the ultimate authority in a country that faces long-term domestic challenges compounded by the plunging price of oil in recent...

This month, two Israeli pharmaceutical companies received good news from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Jerusalem’s Gamida Cell was granted orphan product development status for NiCord, its enriched stem-cell treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. Orphan drug designation promotes the development of promising...

The airstrike on January 18 that killed Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers, allegedly undertaken by the IDF, has been surprisingly welcomed with cheers by many in the Middle East. The strike destroyed a convoy carrying senior Hezbollah commanders and an Iranian military team headed by a general in the Iranian Revolutionary...