Twenty-five years after Israel launched its first reconnaissance satellite, the country sent Ofek 10 into space on April 9, with the promise that it can operate continuously, despite intense cloud cover and other harsh climatic conditions. Ofek 10 is an earth-observing remote-sensing satellite that employs synthetic aperture radar technology with...

The status of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks remained unclear through much of Thursday, amid the publication of conflicting reports describing not just ongoing meetings but also regarding proposals to extend negotiations beyond the original April 29 deadline of a U.S.-backed peace push. Substantive final status negotiations have been offline since last...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday instructed high-level government officials to limit cooperation with Palestinian counterparts to security concerns and peace negotiations, a move that an Israeli government official told Reuters was in response to “the Palestinians’ grave violation of their commitments in the framework of the peace talks”: Israeli government...

In a desperate attempt to introduce an anti-Israel divestment resolution in Cornell University’s Student Assembly, the Ivy League university’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter added the agenda item at the last minute on Tuesday for a meeting later today, when many Jewish students will have already left the college...

The State Department went on offense late Tuesday to correct what spokeswoman Jen Psaki underlined was wrongheaded media coverage of Congressional testimony given earlier in the day by Secretary of State John Kerry, in which statements by Kerry were widely described as having blamed Israel for the breakdown in peace talks between...

Israel’s agriculture ministry has reached an agreement to relocate the majority of families in the Bedouin Azzama tribe from their current residences to a recognized settlement near Be’er Sheva. The Jerusalem Post provided some details of the agreement: According to the agreement, the tribe of Azzama, made up of 900...