Developers of Israel’s Leviathan natural gas field committed on Thursday to investing $3.75 billion in the reservoir, marking a significant blow to efforts to economically attack the Jewish state, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post. The development of the offshore field, which is slated to take three years, is the largest financial investment...

An Israel fighter plane on Thursday shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as it flew from the Gaza Strip to the Mediterranean Sea. The drone was intercepted before it entered Israeli airspace and landed harmlessly in the sea. “The IDF will not allow any violation of [Israel’s] airspace and...

U.S. tech giant Apple has bought Israeli startup RealFace Technology, a leading developer of facial recognition technology, Calcalist reported on Sunday. RealFace’s online presence disappeared on Sunday – its website went offline, as did its Facebook page – upon news of the buyout. While this is a sign the acquisition...

The University of Central Lancashire cancelled an anti-Israel event scheduled to take place on its campus after administrators determined that it ran afoul of the United Kingdom’s newly adopted definition of anti-Semitism, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The panel discussion, arranged by the student group Friends of Palestine, was due...

Iranian officials have banned two siblings from participating in future chess tournaments after the sister failed to cover her hair and the brother played an Israeli opponent at a festival earlier this year. Dorsa Derakhshani, an 18-year-old chess grandmaster, was kicked off Iran’s national team after she failed to wear the Islamic hair covering...

Lebanese and Syrian media reports claim that Israel’s Air Force carried out an overnight strike on Hezbollah-related targets near Syria’s capital Damascus last night. Syrian and Lebanese media have provided conflicting reports of the incident. The Syrian al-Masdar news service reported that Israeli aircraft first flew through Lebanon before reaching...