Despite the High Holiday season during September, which normally slows Israeli activity to a crawl, it was an active month for acquisitions as evidenced by the six deals below, all of which involved foreign companies. 1. The headliner was Ireland-based medical equipment giant Medtronic’s buyout of Mazor Robotics. Based in Caesarea...

In a press briefing on Wednesday, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq, Reuters reported. After identifying Iran as the “origin” of threats against Americans in Iraq, Pompeo explained, “Our intelligence in this regard is solid. We can see the hand...

The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced the arrests of three members of a Hamas terror cell in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The three suspects were arrested over the summer and charged last month. Two of the suspects — Issa Shalalda and Omar Ma’soud — were...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to arrive in Israel on Wednesday evening for a two-day bilateral meeting between German and Israeli officials, The Times of Israel reported. Government-to-government meetings of the type Merkel is scheduled to take part in highlight the close relationship between Israel and Germany. In June,...

Statements from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) show that the nuclear watchdog, charged with monitoring Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, will not agree to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to inspect a previously unknown nuclear warehouse in Tehran, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Netanyahu, during a dramatic...

The Israeli humanitarian NGO, IsraAID, is sending volunteers to assist in the wake of the latest round of devastating natural disasters, in North Carolina, the Philippines, and Indonesia. On September 30, IsraAID: The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid sent a six-member emergency response team to North Carolina, where Hurricane...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Monday that it had evacuated most of its international senior officials from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip due to fears for their safety, The Time of Israel reported. UNRWA said it had “decided to temporarily withdraw part of its international...

France said Tuesday that it had seized assets belonging to Iran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals in response to a plot to bomb an exiled Iranian opposition group’s rally outside Paris in June, The Times of Israel reported. The attack was reportedly thwarted by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret meeting with Indonesian Vice-president Jusuf Kalla on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. According to a report from Israeli Army Radio, Netanyahu met last week with several Muslim leaders including Egyptian President Abdel...

Medtronic, an Irish-American medical device company, announced last Friday that it was purchasing Israel’s Mazor Robotics for a hefty $1.64 billion, the biggest exit ever for an Israeli biotech company. Mazor’s signature piece of technology, a robotic-assisted procedure, represents the future gold standard of spine surgery, which is now poised to be executed...