The Swedish Transport Administration chose a wholly owned Swedish subsidiary of Israeli company Electreon Wireless to lead a consortium in building the world’s first demo of a road that will wirelessly charge an electric truck and an electric bus as they travel. Led by Electreon AB, the international consortium will build the...

Several global payment providers have cut ties with the BDS organization Samidoun over its alleged links to a Palestinian terrorist group. In an email obtained by JNS, PayPal said it would “thoroughly review” Samidoun’s account after the online payment giant was alerted to the group’s purported links to a designated...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that Israel will take part in the World Expo 2020 to be held in Dubai, in another sign of warming relations with the United Arab Emirates. “We are excited about the opportunity to share the spirit of Israeli innovation and entrepreneurship and to...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed on Thursday that a tunnel discovered by Israel earlier this year had crossed the Lebanese-Israeli border, in the third such breach of a ceasefire resolution. “UNIFIL’s independent assessment confirms that this tunnel crosses the Blue Line in violation of Resolution 1701,”...

A Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian walk into a classroom. No, this is not the start of a joke, but a most accurate description of a unique course on interreligious dialogue at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. “The class as a whole is meant as an opportunity for Jewish and Arab...

In a major setback for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) on Wednesday evening rejected a resolution calling on the school to “divest from companies engaged in human-rights violations in Palestine.” The pro-BDS resolution was rejected by nine votes in...