During the month of September 2017, investments in Israeli companies remained strong. Innoviz Technologies of Kfar Saba raised $65 million in Series B funding as its LiDAR sensing solution for autonomous vehicles moves into mass production. Delphi Automotive, Magna International, 360 Capital Partners, Glory Ventures, Naver, Zohar Zisapel, Vertex Venture Capital,...

Commenting on the recent reconciliation talks between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, said that any Palestinian government must accept the Quartet principles and “commit to nonviolence” in an official statement released Monday on Twitter. “The United States stresses that any Palestinian...

A military spokesperson for the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has warned that the group’s missiles can hit covert Israeli bases in Eritrea and his forces would soon have the capacity to reach bases in Israel itself, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Col. Aziz Rashid was quoted by Al Masirah,...

The United States Army will be installing an Israeli-made anti-rocket system on a number of its M1A2 Abrams tanks. The Pentagon will outfit the tanks with the Trophy active-protective system (APS) which can detect and destroy incoming projectiles. The U.S. will be the first army other than Israel’s to deploy the systems,...

A nineteen-year-old female Iranian grandmaster announced that she was joining the Unites States chess federation after having been expelled from the Iranian federation earlier this year for failing to cover her hair during a tournament, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Dorsa Derakhshani’s registration, according to the FIDE, the World Chess Federation database, has been...

The head of Israel’s external intelligence agency, Mossad, has made a rare public appearance and used the opportunity to warn that Iran constitutes one of the main threats facing Israel. Yossi Cohen, who has led the agency since January 2016, confirmed that Iran is operating closer to Israel’s border than...