Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed the 39th anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, contrasting it with the intransigence displayed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas “refuses to come to direct negotiations without preconditions, is also continuing to incite his people regarding the idea...

Huge Wildfires Bring Out Best in Israel’s Friends, Worst in Enemies Wildfires that have threatened large portions of Israel continued to burn but were largely under control by Saturday. The more than 60,000 residents of Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, who had been evacuated from their homes were cleared to return to...

Russian and Hezbollah officials have met in the Syrian city of Aleppo to coordinate movements on the ground, the Lebanese website al-Akhbar reported on Thursday. The website, which is considered to be supportive of Hezbollah, said that Russian officials instigated the meeting, the first of its kind, in order to establish “continual”...

The Israeli Innovation Authority recently signed an R&D cooperation agreement with its Chilean counterpart, which aims to connect startups, technology, and research in a variety of fields. Chile is among the leaders in entrepreneurship and technology in the Pacific Alliance (Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Costa Rica), which has a joint GDP of $3 trillion...

As Israel struggled to put out the hundreds wildfires that rampaged across the country on Thursday, many of which were started by terror arsonists, both domestic and foreign support poured in to help battle the blazes and evacuate residents. At the same time, expressions of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate spread across the internet....

Iran is threatening to retaliate against sanctions legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by the House of Representatives last week, shortly after the Institute for Science and International Security reported that Iran may be in violation of elements of last year’s nuclear agreement. “So far, the current US government has committed several violations...