Israel’s national airline, El Al, announced Wednesday the launch of direct flights connecting Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport with Tokyo’s Narita International Airport in Japan. The airline will operate three round-trip flights a week, starting in March 2020. Flight time between Tel Aviv and Tokyo will be 11 hours and...

When people think of Israel, so often the word “conflict” comes to mind, yet the reality is far more complicated than news reports make it appear. Despite the conflict – or perhaps because of it – Israel has one of the most advanced systems in the world for saving lives....

Pitzer College President Melvin L. Oliver reaffirmed Tuesday his opposition to the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement while visiting the University of Haifa – the academic institution his college’s governance body attempted to cut ties with earlier this year. “Academic boycotts of any nation set us on a...

More than 100 Israeli high-tech entrepreneurs are presenting their innovations in one-on-one meetings with some 1,000 potential investors in China today (May 28) at the annual GoforIsrael China-Israel investment conference in Jinan City, capital of Shandong Province. The inventions span areas such as advanced production technologies, IT, life sciences, water technologies, cleantech,...

In the first public comments on the U.S.-sponsored economic workshop to be held next month in Bahrain, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts “will go to hell.” Speaking at a ceremony in Ramallah, Abbas declared that, “The Palestinian Authority does not recognize this conference.”...

As SodaStream’s Muslim employees are observing the month of Ramadan, marked by daily fasting, the company broke the fast together at a celebratory Iftar dinner this week. The nearly 3,000 attendees, comprised of all of SodaStream’s employees and local and international guests, made the event the largest Iftar celebration in Israel...