An Israeli startup’s mobile guide has been chosen as the official mobility app for the Asian Games in Indonesia to help millions of fans get to sports competitions at the event from which Israel has been banned since 1981, highlighting the ambiguity at the heart of the boycott movement against...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has cancelled his visit to Iran following the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States government on the Islamic Republic, Radio Free Europe reported Sunday. Abadi on August 7 said he did not agree with the renewed U.S. sanctions, but clarified that he would abide...

Shlomi Lazmy, a blind Israeli veteran, won first place in the International Blind Sports Federation’s 2018 Tenpin Bowling World Championships for the blind held in Prague on August 6. This is the second year in a row that Lazmy, 61, won the title. Last year’s championships were held in Japan. In the...

In explaining why France remained unconvinced that Iran continues to present a terror threat to Europe, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a French security official said, “We can imagine an ultranationalist faction carrying out an operation to raise tensions.” The Journal report explained that given recent Iranian-directed terror attacks...

Despite a ceasefire announced by Hamas on Thursday, several thousands of Gazans took part in Hamas-orchestrated riots along the Israeli-Gaza border on Friday, hurling rocks, burning tires, and sending incendiary terror-kites into Israel, The Times of Israel reported. The army said around 5,000 people had amassed at the border, and...

United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said in a statement that the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, must stop the bias agenda against Israel at the UN Human Rights Council, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. “The UN has failed...

Oshri Bitau is only 10 years old and started piano lessons only six months ago. But he’s already performed a Beethoven composition at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and three classical pieces in an end-of-the-school-year concert at the Municipal Conservatory in his hometown of Nazareth Illit. And no sooner did local...

The United States government slammed Hamas’ campaign of terror against Israel, after tens of thousands of Israelis spent the night in bomb shelters as rocket barrages that began Wednesday evening continued throughout the night and into Thursday. Following an escalation by Hamas that saw the first rocket from the Iranian-backed...

Kuwait Airways has paid a “substantial” settlement to an Israeli woman whom it refused service to, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Last November, Mandy Blumenthal went to the Kuwait Airways counter at Heathrow Airport and attempted to purchase a ticket for a London to Bangkok flight. In a video...

For the first time since Operation Protective Edge in 2014 a Hamas-launched rocket reached Beersheba as red alert sirens sounded across southern Israel, triggered by approximately 200 rockets and mortars that were fired into Israel from Gaza on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, wounding dozens of Israelis, The Jerusalem Post reported....