Microsoft has announced the buyout of Israeli data protection firm, Secure Islands. “Furthering Microsoft’s investments in security technology, I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Secure Islands, an innovator in advanced information protection solutions,” said Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft corporate VP Cloud and Enterprise...

Germany’s ruling party, the Christian Democratic Union, came out strongly against the European Union’s decision to label products coming from territories captured by Israel in 1967, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. “This decision might not bring advantages in consumer protection,” Jürgen Hardt told JTA on Thursday about new regulations...

Israeli officials have raised their estimate of Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal to 150,000, an increase of 50% from May of this year, Avi Issacharoff reported for The Times of Israel on Thursday. The revised valuation on rockets suggests Hezbollah is ramping up efforts to acquire weapons whose purpose is to attack...

Kurdish troops, aided by Yazidi fighters and backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition, have captured a key highway from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as part of their campaign to retake the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq, The New York Times reported Thursday. As many as...

Assi Azar, an openly gay Israeli television star and LGBTQ activist, was heckled and threatened by anti-Israel protesters during an appearance last week at Goucher College in Baltimore, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Azar was screening his 2010 documentary Mom and Dad, I Have Something To Tell You, about Israelis...

In the wake of reports that Iran has stopped dismantling uranium-enriching centrifuges, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D – Md.) released a statement calling on the United States and its partner nations not to tolerate any Iranian violations of the nuclear deal, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday. House Minority Whip Steny...