The United Kingdom is set to proscribe the Iranian-backed, Lebanese-based terror organization Hezbollah in its entirety, The Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. The UK outlawed Hezbollah’s “military wing” as a terrorist entity in 2008, but the “political wing” of the organization is not currently restricted. The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid will...

Two Israeli companies have made a big splash in the fundraising world this month. On September 12, Sisense closed an $80 million investment led by New-York based Insight Venture Partners. On September 21, MeMed Diagnostics completed a $70 million funding round. Sisense makes a business intelligence hybrid-cloud solution covering everything from data preparation and...

In a forty-minute speech addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed the presence of another undeclared Iranian nuclear site, and blasted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for hypocrisy, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. At the beginning of his speech, Netanyahu revealed that Iran had a second...

United States President Donald Trump must be willing, for sanctions to effectively change Iran’s destabilizing behavior, to sanction the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), if it maintains connections with sanctioned Iranian banks in November, Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, argued...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for a resumption of Israel-Palestinian peace talks in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, The Algemeiner reported. The meeting between the two leaders took place hours after United...

Israeli company ICI Vision has developed digital eyewear with the potential to give millions of legally blind people the ability to see. The company’s Orama high-tech glasses are the brainchild of Haim Chayet, an Israeli optic physicist who was originally creating augmented-reality goggles for motorcyclists. Working alongside a friend who had damaged...