A new Arab-Israeli innovation hub has joined the Tel Aviv high-tech landscape. The TRI/O Tech advanced high-tech entrepreneurial hub in Kafr Kassem, about 12 miles east of Tel Aviv, includes a startup accelerator and the first Arab-Israeli school of entrepreneurship. TRI/O Tech is a joint venture of Tsofen, an Arab-Israeli integration non-profit,...

Lebanon’s Minister of Justice resigned Sunday out of frustration over Hezbollah’s control of the government, which has harmed the country’s relations with Sunni Arab countries. Ashraf Rifi’s resignation came days after Saudi Arabia cancelled a $4 billion military aid deal. The Saudi decision followed Lebanon’s refusal to back Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Iran, which...

Israeli rule over the Golan Heights should be considered “lawful and just” and should be supported by the United States and the international community, Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, argued in an analysis Friday for Real Clear Politics. Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six-Day War....

Israelis living near the border with Gaza are growing increasingly concerned about terror tunnels being rebuilt by the Iran-backed terror group Hamas, and have reported hearing the sounds of new tunnels being dug, The Telegraph reported Monday. Residents of Israeli towns like Netiv Ha’asara, who live close enough to Gaza to see Palestinians on the other...

The U.S. government has reached a deal with Haifa-based Pluristem Therapeutics to stock the company’s therapy for treating patients who have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, asked Pluristem to join its...

40 Iranian state-run media outlets announced in a coordinated push on Sunday that they were renewing the death sentence fatwa on British author Salman Rushdie, raising the bounty for killing him by $600,000. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of Iran, placed a fatwa and a $3 million bounty on Rushdie after his 1989...