Two Israeli nonprofits are among 30 international winners of Impact Challenge grants from Google to promote technological innovations that will make the world more accessible for people with disabilities. Beit Issie Shapiro in Ra’anana received two grants. The first, for $1,000,000, was to develop a free product that will allow people with limited...

The Israeli military has stepped up its efforts to locate terror tunnels inside the Gaza Strip in the last week, Walla reported Thursday. Despite claims to the contrary by Hamas, Israeli authorities said they never agreed to stop using bulldozers or other heavy equipment on the Gazan side of the border fence as long as the threat of tunneling persisted. The...

Before he was elected leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn called Israeli politicians “criminals” and for trade sanctions to be imposed on the Jewish state, a UK-based affiliate of The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Corbyn’s statements, made in various letters to government officials, were made public in response to...

Hamas has decreed that female student drivers must be accompanied by a chaperone when taking lessons, NPR reported Wednesday. Driving schools were informed of the new rule by the government last fall. One driving instructor, Mohammad al-Hatta, described being pulled over by police last fall with a single female student in the car,...

The State Department’s new strategy for fighting terrorism has been criticized by experts for failing to specifically mention the threat of Islamic extremism. The Joint Strategy on Countering Violent Extremism (.pdf), which was published last week, outlines the government’s official diplomatic anti-terror plan. In his introduction to the document, which was co-written with USAID, the U.S. government’s foreign aid bureau, Secretary...

State Department Spokesman John Kirby admitted on Wednesday that the department lied last month about doctoring a video of a December 2013 press briefing that included a discussion of the Obama administration’s diplomacy with Iran. Contrary to previous assertions by the State Department, Kirby acknowledged that the exchange was deleted from...