The UK Israel Tech Hub, based in the British Embassy in Israel, has led to 175 tech partnerships and 54 deals worth a cumulative £85 million ($112.8 million), according to a new report on its impact. The potential UK economic impact of the UK-Israel innovation partnerships established through the hub...

Details removed from a United Nations report that had been released earlier this week implicate Syria and Iran for a series of chemical weapons attacks in January and February, The New York Times reported Wednesday. A UN commission investigating war crimes during the seven-year-old Syrian civil war uncovered evidence of...

In an interview with a Palestinian newspaper about the developing United States Middle East peace proposal, Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, said that though he sought to work with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, he questioned the Palestinian leader, “has the ability to, or...

The Israeli non-for-profit organization, Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) will be awarded the United Nations Population Award for saving the lives of Palestinian children with heart disease – the first time an organization from Israel will receive the award. The Globe and Mail reported Wednesday that the organization dedicated to...

Israeli tax refund startup ReFundit, founded by Waze co-founder Uri Levine and by CEO Ziv Tirosh, is preparing to launch a joint pilot in several European countries. Levine announced in a press conference on Monday that the launch will begin in Slovakia, which is also the first country where Waze...

In an op-ed published in The Algemeiner on Thursday, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of the Israel Project, said that Hamas, the terrorist group in complete control of the Gaza Strip, “in its efforts to fulfill the terms of its genocidal charter, will continue to inflame the region with...

Dahlia St. Knives, a transsexual activist and writer, said she doesn’t feel “safe” at the Chicago Dyke March as a black Jewish woman, after organizers failed to apologize for the discrimination of two Jewish women at the event last year. At the annual LGBTQ march in Chicago in 2017, organizers...

The new U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, said Germany must close its airspace and deny landing rights to Iran’s Mahan Air because of the airline’s material support for terrorism, Ben Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. In a meeting last week with a senior delegation from the American...

IBM’s new artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debate with two Israeli student debating champions on Monday, demonstrating the computer’s ability to deliver persuasive arguments against humans on complex topics. Named Project Debater, the AI was unveiled at IBM’s Watson West site in San Francisco,...

Israel has deployed a system to track balloons and kites carrying burning material across the border from Gaza, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The tracking system, called Sky Spotter, was developed Rafael Advanced Defense Systems as a countermeasure to be used against small drones. According to Israel’s Hadashot news...