It’s been clear for a long time that there is little difference between the character of terrorist attacks in Israel and those in the West more broadly. Trucks ram into crowds—as they did in Nice, Berlin and Jerusalem. Terrorists blow up or shoot up nightclubs—as they did in Orlando, Tel...

Israeli software is being used by agricultural giant Monsanto and others to identify the plant traits that produce higher-yielding crops, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. NRGene, an Israeli firm that developed the genomic big-data technology, is working with Monsanto and Syngenta, a Swiss seeds and pesticides group, to identify traits that can...

A regional court in the German city of Wuppertal upheld a lower court’s ruling that a 2014 firebombing of a synagogue was not an anti-Semitic incident, but a way to criticize Israeli policies, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Three German Palestinians were convicted in 2015 of...

Syria’s army has accused Israel of conducting an overnight strike on a military airport near the capital Damascus, threatening repercussions. Syrian army command claimed that the Mezzeh military airport west of Damascus was struck by rockets fired from near Lake Kinneret in northern Israel just after midnight. A statement by...

Interest in Israeli children’s snacking habits, particularly peanut butter-flavored Bamba puffs, skyrocketed over the weekend as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. issued a new clinical guideline that calls on parents to feed infants peanut-laden foods in order to prevent peanut allergies in the future. The new Addendum Guidelines...

Having effectively taken over the Lebanese cabinet in late December, the terrorist group Hezbollah appears to be on its way to completely controlling the country’s political arena, David Daoud, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in Newsweek on Thursday “Hezbollah is seizing the state’s institutions one...