Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected a package of Israeli goodwill gestures designed to coax the Palestinian leader back to peace talks, where further Israeli concessions would be discussed. A Palestinian official told Xinhua that the Israeli confidence-building measures – which included the release of security prisoners and programs designed...

A group of top U.S. university presidents are in Israel this week to study Israeli innovation and explore opportunities for bilateral academic exchanges. Among the topics for discussion are the degree to which Israeli has developed two-way channels for the exchange of information between academic institutions and industrial settings. A...

Egyptian authorities have struggled to protect the country’s gas pipelines from the growing anarchy throughout the country. Disruptions of gas exports to Israel and Jordan began soon after the Egyptian revolution that saw the overthrow of then-President Hosni Mubarak, and have continued since. Though Egypt has moved to compensate at...

The U.N. today held an Israeli-led “thematic debate” – basically a conference – revolving around how to promote global entrepreneurship. The event stemmed from a resolution passed last December by the U.N. General Assembly. The resolution among other things created a system for creating and nurturing entrepreneurial resources, and sought...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are prepared to make “painful” concessions in order to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that Secretary of State John Kerry is in the region to promote, according to Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri. “Netanyahu knows there will be a painful evacuation of a number...

Conflicting reports surrounding the recent resignation of Israeli national security adviser Major-General (res) Yaacov Amidror are calling attention to the complicated economic and geopolitical calculations the country must make in managing its vast newly-found energy reserves. Amidror is one of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s closest advisers. During his term he has...