Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who was in Israel this week, publicly praised the Israeli cybersecurity startup Illusive Networks, after a venture capital firm he partners with invested $5 million in the startup, Entrepreneur magazine reported Tuesday. Illusive Networks raised $5 million in Series A funding from cybersecurity think tank Team 8, which...

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin welcomed a gay youth group and a number of prominent gay personalities to his official residence, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Wearing white emblazoned maroon colored tee-shirts announcing in Hebrew and English across the front “We are everywhere,” a representative group of slightly more than a...

A new demo village in southern Israel’s Arava Desert showcases cutting-edge Israeli solutions for housing, energy, water and agriculture needs of populations out of reach of national water and energy grids in any part of the world. The village, built in the environmentally forward Kibbutz Ketura ahead of last December’s...

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the emerging nuclear deal with Iran as “wishful thinking” in his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Fox New reported: “It is clear that the nuclear deal is not a permanent fix but merely a placeholder,” he...

The Obama administration is poised to redefine many terror and human rights sanctions imposed on Iran as nuclear-related sanctions, with an eye towards lifting them and providing a greater boost to Iran’s economy as part of an emerging nuclear deal, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. According to anonymous officials quoted...

The United States is planning to send 400 military trainers to Iraq’s Anbar Province to help Iraqis, especially Sunni tribes, in their fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Reuters reported today. The U.S. deployment would likely entail around 400 trainers, one U.S. official said, adding an announcement...