For a few hours each week, more than 2,000 fourth- to ninth-graders from 31 Jerusalem schools transform into PICO Kids. Mentored by 80-plus university students and local entrepreneurs, PICO Kids might build mini rockets, produce maps of their own DNA, create TED-style talks, do lab experiments, and learn programming, 3D printing...

While on a state visit to Kenya, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and announced Tuesday that Israel would open an embassy in that East African nation. Netanyahu also announced that Israel was considering establishing direct flights to Rwanda after meeting with Kagame, The Times...

After returning to Lebanon following his resignation earlier this month, later rescinded, in Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that Hezbollah was a regional problem and that his nation “cannot do anything about it.” Hariri made the comments in an interview with Al-Rajol, a Saudi magazine, the Daily Star reported Sunday. The Lebanese prime...

United States Vice President Mike Pence attended an event in New York on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 181 that recommended partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and Arab state. The event was organized by the World Jewish Congress and the Israeli mission to...

German public broadcaster WDR has cancelled plans to air concerts next year by British ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters over accusations of anti-Semitism, Ben Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Malca Goldstein-Wolf launched a petition campaign — “No support for the antisemite Roger Walters with public funds of...

The Israel-based I Clown You Project brought two Dream Doctor medical clowns, David Barashi and Rotem Goldenberg, from Israel to Los Angeles earlier this month for a weeklong series of events, lectures, hospital visits, workshops and seminars. The project aims to grow awareness in the United States around the profession of professional...