Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren was appointed deputy minister of the Prime Minster’s Office and head of Israel’s public diplomacy, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The move comes as part of a cabinet reshuffle involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Kulanu, the second-largest party in...

A Palestinian man who tried to bomb the Jerusalem light rail last month said he plotted the attack in “revenge for visits by tourists and Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount,” police revealed on Tuesday. Ali Abu Hassan, a Hebron University student whose attempted attack was foiled by an alert...

A consortium of Chinese companies has announced that it is paying $4.4 billion for Playtika, the Israeli social games developer, which was owned by Caesars Interactive Entertainment. The group, led by an affiliate of Shanghai Giant Network Technology, one of China’s largest online games companies, said it has entered into...

Increased cooperation between the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and Islamic State forces in the Sinai Peninsula have drawn Egyptian ire, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. The close links forged by the two terrorist organizations — which the Israeli military has warned of in past months — compelled Cairo to inform Hamas...

The Palestinian Authority filed a complaint with FIFA after Israel prevented several players from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip from traveling to the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The move is the latest in the PA’s ongoing effort to insert its conflict with Israel into international fora. Israel’s internal...

In an apparent reaction to Iran’s increasing isolation from the Arab world, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the growing ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia a “stab in the back” of the Muslim world, Iranian media reported on Monday. Revelation of Saudi government’s relations with Zionist regime was stab...