Are you ready for violet-colored potatoes? How about orange tobacco? Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have figured out how to produce betalain pigments in plants and flowers that don’t normally have them. If you’re thinking, “Who needs violet tomatoes?” you should know that red-violet and yellow betalain pigments...

Pictures have emerged of troops headed to Syria to fight in support of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in planes marked with the insignia of Iran Air, Iran’s national airline. The pictures, Emanuele Ottolenghi wrote in an op-ed Tuesday in The Hill, present a challenge for President Donald Trump. The images show...

A new toxicology report on the body of Alberto Nisman, the late Argentinian prosecutor, found that ketamine and clonazepam were in his blood at the time his death, Argentinian federal criminal prosecutor Ricardo Saenz announced Monday. Nisman was investigating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos...

A former Al Jazeera English bureau chief in Cairo has spoken out about the Qatari-owned network’s unethical methods, calling it a “weapon against its neighbors” and accusing it of endangering the “lives of journalists because of dealings with Hamas, [and] the Muslim Brotherhood.” Mohamed Fahmy, who previously reported for the...

The first of El Al Airlines new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrived in Ben Gurion Airport Wednesday, marking the delivery of one element of the largest ever United Kingdom-Israel trade agreement. The Israeli airline agreed to purchase 15 of the Dreamliner aircrafts from Boeing. The deal included a long term...

Proving that a superheroine can outdo a superhero—at least in box-office earnings—Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman starring Israeli sensation Gal Gadot has surpassed the 2002 blockbuster Spider-Man by grossing $404.1 million in North America. Spider-Man raked in $403.7 million in the same market, according to Forbes. Wonder Woman is the top movie of the summer in America. Worldwide, the...