Cisco Systems has acquired an Israeli-founded cloud security firm a day after announcing a strategic cooperation agreement with Israel’s largest bank. Cisco will acquire CloudLock, which was established in 2011 by three IDF veterans, for $293 million, Globes reported Tuesday. The company has 150 employees, 30 of them in Israel, and has raised $39 million thus far. On...

Israeli police have closed the Temple Mount to non-Muslim visitors until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan following several days of Palestinian riots, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Police said several masked youth attacked Israeli Jews, tourists, and officers at the site — the holiest in Judaism and home to al-Aqsa Mosque, the...

An Israeli high-tech company has hired four programmers from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and plans to employ at least six more by 2017. According to Reuters, 10 percent of Mellanox Technologies’ workforce is already comprised of Arab programmers living in Israel and in territories administered by the Palestinian Authority, including Ramallah. “From our experience...

Israel’s former national security advisor hailed the recently announced reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey on Monday, telling reporters it has the potential to greatly improve diplomatic and economic ties between the two nations. “Trade between Israel and turkey has more than doubled from the Marmara event up until today,”...

Israel and Turkey have reached a reconciliation agreement aimed at normalizing ties after six years of strained relations. “The Middle East is in turmoil. My policy is to create islands of stability with our close neighbors,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Monday press conference in Rome, the...

Hezbollah’s leader said on Friday that the Lebanese terrorist organization will not be harmed by U.S. sanctions since it is funded and armed directly by Iran, Agence France-Presse reported. “We are open about the fact that Hezbollah’s budget, its income, its expenses, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, are from the Islamic...