Syria accused Israel of launching an airstrike against a military installation near Damascus overnight in which eight Iranians were allegedly killed, Ynet reported Wednesday. The reported airstrike targeted an installation in the Al-Kiswah region southwest of Damascus. Israeli is believed to have struck that base in December of last year. The...

International Flavors & Fragrances of New York will acquire Frutarom of Haifa in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $7.1 billion, including the assumption of Frutarom’s net debt, the companies announced today. The combined company is expected to have approximately $5.3 billion of revenue in 2018. Following the close of...

Two-thousand-year-old Dead Sea Scroll fragments, containing script previously invisible to the naked eye, were discovered and presented last week at an international conference honoring 70 years since the scroll’s discovery in a Judean Desert cave. The script was identified by an Israel Antiquities Authority researcher using advanced imaging technology originally...

Six Hamas terrorists were killed in a large blast in the center of the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, claimed that six of its members were killed in the explosion and blamed the blast on Israel. A statement from the group said that...

Following a weekend during which Israeli officials warned that Iran was preparing to use proxies to attack northern Israel in retaliation for an airstrike against an Iranian airbase in Syria, a former Israeli national security advisor asserted that for any Iranian attack “there will be consequences.” Maj.-Gen. (Ret.) Yaakov Amidror...

The Sylvan Adams Velodrome in Tel Aviv, touted as the most advanced indoor cycling arena in the Middle East, was unveiled a few days before the Big Start of the Giro d’Italia road-biking race in Israel, scheduled to begin in Jerusalem on May 4 and reach Tel Aviv on May 5. The...