Iran’s failure to bring its money-laundering and terror finance laws into compliance with international standards has discouraged foreign banks from doing business with the country, according to a senior International Monetary Fund official. David Lipton, a deputy of the IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde, told Bloomberg News while in Tehran...

The regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has promoted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic themes in an effort to distract from the damage it is doing to the country, a former Venezuelan diplomat wrote Wednesday in the New York Daily News. Diego Arria, Venezuela’s former ambassador to the United Nations, cited a recent...

The Israeli startup ReWalk Robotics signed a collaboration agreement on Monday with Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering to license and develop technology for its lightweight exoskeleton that enables people with mobility limitations to walk. This “soft suit” robotic system will be the newest development from the company, founded...

As long as Palestinian leaders encourage children to hate Israel and glorify terrorists, “more violence is inevitable,” the son of terror victim Richard Lakin, who was killed in a terrorist attack last October, warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (Google link) Wednesday. Micah Lakin Avni recalled that his father was motivated by a commitment...

Iran is propping up the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in order to ensure that Hezbollah, which both countries support, has the continued capability to wage war against Israel, expert witnesses told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing Tuesday. “The gains made by the Assad regime (with Russian and Iranian help)...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s recent push for new peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is “promising,” former Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid said Wednesday during a public Q&A at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Lapid, who for years has been promoting a regional peace summit involving Egypt and...