President Donald Trump should sign a new free trade agreement with Israel and extend the Visa Waiver Program to cover Israelis, the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama wrote on Tuesday. Daniel Shapiro, who co-authored the analysis with his senior advisor Scott Lasensky, credited Obama with making progress on...

Turkish Tourism Minister Nabi Avci arrived in Israel on Tuesday as part of the first high-level visit since last year’s reconciliation agreement between Jerusalem and Ankara. Avci joined representatives from 57 other countries, including 15 foreign ministers, at the International Mediterranean Tourism Market 2017 expo in Tel Aviv. “The bilateral relations...

The reported death of a Hamas rocket engineer in a work accident on Monday is the latest indication that the Palestinian terrorist group is readying for another round of violence against Israel, Palestinian affairs correspondent Yoni Ben Menachem wrote in an analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Mohammad Walid al-Koka, a...

Up to 13,000 people were secretly killed over five years in a notorious Syrian prison run by the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad, Amnesty International revealed in a report on Tuesday. Saydnaya Prison, located some 30 miles north of Damascus, is the site of a “campaign of mass hangings and extermination,” complete with...

Israeli tech firms are engaged in secret, extensive business dealings with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, a trend that could be a harbinger of more open cooperation, Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman reported in Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday. According to Shmuel Bar, a former Israeli intelligence official who developed a program...

Israeli and Turkish diplomats conducted their first strategic dialogue in six years in Ankara on Wednesday. Officials from both countries’ foreign ministries met and discussed economic, academic, and cultural cooperation, according to a statement released by the parties after the talks, Haaretz reported. “Both sides viewed developments in the wide...