Dozens of Hamas’ top fighters have defected to the Islamic State’s Sinai-based affiliate in recent years, though cooperation between the two terrorist groups remains strong, Avi Issacharoff reported Wednesday in The Times of Israel. Palestinian sources told Issacharoff that Abed al-Wahad Abu Aadara, the first known member of Hamas’ naval commando unit...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), an international organization devoted to fighting anti-Semitism, called on the German government on Tuesday to stop funding Palestinian sports agencies as long as they continue their “blatant sanctification of Jew-killers,” The Times of Israel reported. The statement came in response to a deal signed last week between the head...

Iran test-fired another surface-to-air missile on Wednesday, in defiance of warnings and a new round of sanctions from the Trump administration last week, a U.S. official told Fox News. The short-range Mersad missile was fired from a launchpad east of Tehran and impacted 35 miles away, the official added. “Recent Iranian actions, including a...

The founder of two Israel-oriented exchange-traded funds (ETFs) argued that “cutting-edge” Israeli companies that are “leading the world in some of the most transformative technologies” remain “underowned and underdiscovered,” in an interview Thursday. Steven Schoenfeld, founder of Blue Star Indexes and creator of BIGI and BIGITech stock indexes, told ETF.com that contrary to...

Robert Kraft, owner of the Super Bowl champions New England Patriots, has announced that he will donate $6 million to build Israel’s first regulation-sized American football stadium. Reports cite that the new stadium will already open later this year. It will service the 1,350 active football players in Israel. “This...

Air India is in the process of inaugurating a new Mumbai-Tel Aviv route, which is expected to be announced during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Israel, The Times of India reported Thursday. The flight will take a circuitous route to avoid flying over countries that do not have relations...