Israeli jazz musician Tom Oren, 24, was selected as the first-place winner of the 2018 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition last month at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Oren performed “Just One Of Those Things” and “Just As Though You Were Here” at the December 3...

Malaysia has so far refused to grant visas to an Israeli swimming team, which would allow them to compete in world championships this summer, Jewish News reported Tuesday. Israeli sports authorities have been attempting to obtain the visas for two months but have gotten no response from the Malaysian government....

The Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation announced that it would invest $7.3 million in eight new American-Israeli innovation projects, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The BIRD Foundation was established by the United States and Israeli governments in 1977 and has invested nearly $350 million in some 974 projects...

In a television interview with CBS’s flagship program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the intimate security cooperation with Israel in the Sinai Peninsula against jihadist forces, The Jerusalem Post reported. When the interviewer asked Sisi whether the cooperation was the “deepest and closest” that...

Israel has solved its water crisis! That’s a typical headline about Israel’s world-leading smart water management and advanced water technology. As I sipped freshly desalinated Mediterranean water at the world’s largest seawater desalination plant, the brilliance of Israel’s many-pronged approach was as clear as the H2O in my paper cup....

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), one time the nation’s premier civil rights organization, has falsely characterized legislation that would penalize companies that boycott Israel as limiting free speech. A letter posted at the organization’s website claimed that the bipartisan legislation, which supports state laws barring contracts with businesses that boycott...