Lebanon’s parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to approve a national unity government, which includes representatives of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. Lawmakers voted 87 in favor, four against and one abstention, to approve Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri’s cabinet. He had presented the 30-member cabinet earlier this month, having been asked...

It won’t be an ordinary anniversary party when Jerusalem-based OurCrowd showcases its startups to an expected 5,000 members of the global tech investment community in February. Launched in early 2013, OurCrowd’s equity crowdfunding platform enables accredited investors to put money into vetted startups, mostly Israeli, in which OurCrowd also has a...

The brother of a senior Hamas official was arrested last month while attempting to enter Israel from the Gaza Strip, Israel’s internal security agency announced on Wednesday. Bilal Razania, a member of Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, was taken in for questioning on November 27. He gave Israeli officials information...

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced on Tuesday that it had arrested several Arab citizens who were part of a cell plotting to attack Israeli soldiers in the southern Negev region. Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman said that his agency had thwarted more than 400 “significant” attacks on Israelis during...

When a powerful earthquake shook southern Chile on Sunday, the potential for loss of life and damage was great. But thanks to eVigilo’s mass alert system, there were no immediate reports of deaths in the wake of the 7.6 magnitude quake. eVigilo — an Israeli startup delivering and developing emergency...

The year 2016 brought three major milestones for CartiHeal, the Israeli biomed company behind the cartilage and bone regeneration device Agili-C: a $15 million investment led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation; European Union CE approval of Agili-C for cartilage regeneration; and now an investigational device exemption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...