The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is encouraging more women to enlist in their prestigious pilots courses, in an effort to increase gender integration in the military, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. “A plane doesn’t care if it’s a woman or a man flying it. The Air Force wants the...

Israeli media have reported that the Syrian regime is preparing to expand its area of control in the south of the country near the border with Israel. Amos Harel, writing in Haaretz, concludes that the regime’s conquest of Aleppo, Dir a-Zur and al-Raqqa has freed up the army and Shi’ite militias...

Big-data, artificial intelligence and connectivity startups in Tel Aviv-based business accelerator The Junction now have access to commercial collaborations and investment opportunities from Ohio and Germany due to two separate partnership agreements. The first partnership, dubbed the Israel-Youngstown Business Incubator Collaborative (I-YBI), facilitates 3D printing business collaborations. Youngstown, Ohio, is the home...

Iranian state television broadcasted what it claimed was the confession of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic, who was sentenced to death for espionage in October, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) reported Sunday. According to the “confession” that was aired, Djalali had been approached by a foreign intelligence service, apparently the Mossad,...

Saudi Arabia claims to have intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired at its royal palace by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. According to a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels in Yemen, Saudi air defenses intercepted the Volcano H2 (or Burkan H2)...

The German government is funding a radical pro-Iranian regime Shi’ite umbrella organization with €283,150 ($334,800) as part of a strategy to promote “deradicalization” and “prevent extremism,” Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The money, which comes from the EU’s Internal Security Fund, will finance the activities of...