Freedom House set Israel’s ranking at “free” in its 2014 report of press rankings released earlier this month, in a marked contrast to the trend that “global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade.” Noting that “Israel enjoys a lively, pluralistic media environment in which press freedom is generally...

As Iran’s economic situation is in temporary downturn and the country continues propping up the Assad regime in Syria, Tehran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah is increasingly feeling the pinch, according to a report in the May 15 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The sources also pointed to the huge financial impact...

United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel visiting Israel this week dismissed last week’s Newsweek report accusing Israel of aggressively spying on the United States. Hagel’s reservation further undermines the report’s credibility already hurt by experts’ questions and the reporter’s dubious history. The Times of Israel reported on Hagel’s response when...

The Daily Beast on Wednesday published details of a new poll by The Israel Project – which the organization formally published later that morning – finding that “over twice as many Americans agree with Israel’s claim that they are not primarily to blame for the failure of the Middle East...

This week SpaceIL launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to finance its development of the first Israeli spacecraft to land on the moon. The SpaceIL team is the only Israeli team competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. SpaceIL is one of 33 international, non-governmental teams seeking to be the first to develop a craft...

Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth this weekend assessed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) faces what the outlet described as an “economic meltdown,” days before the two dominant Palestinian factions – Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which controls Palestinian portions of the West Bank – announced that they were...