The AstroRad radiation protection vest designed by Tel Aviv-based StemRad will be worn by a mannequin on NASA’s test flight of its unmanned Orion spacecraft, according to an agreement signed by NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot and Israel Space Agency Director Avi Blasberger during the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado...

An Israeli satellite company has published photographs of “unusual” activity at an Iranian enrichment facility, a week before President Donald Trump will make a decision whether or not to continue America’s participation in the 2015 nuclear deal, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. ImageSat International published the photographs of Iran’s...

A recently discovered coin stamped with the phrase “for the freedom of Jerusalem,” which was found in a cave outside of the central Israeli city of Modi’in, suggests that the Bar Kochba rebellion against Roman rule following the destruction of the second Jewish Temple had more widespread support than previously...

An editorial in The New York Times published Thursday described a speech given earlier this week by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s as “vile” and called on him to leave office. The speech, which Abbas gave at the first meeting of the Palestinian National Council in 22 years on Sunday, attributed persecution of Jews to “social...

Guatemala opened its new embassy to Israel on Monday at the Malkha Technology Park, ahead of its official inauguration later this month, The Times of Israel reported. The Latin American country raised its flag at the site of its new embassy on Tuesday. The official opening ceremony will take place...

The largest investment in an Israeli company during April 2018 was $70 million raised by Caesarea-based V-Wave, which is about to start multicenter clinical trials of its minimally invasive implanted interatrial shunt device for treating patients with severe symptomatic heart failure. The round was led by Deerfield Management with participation of...

A blaze started by kites carrying burning fuel have ignited fields in southern Israel requiring ten teams of firefighters to fight them, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The fires were the largest since Palestinians participating in riots led by the terrorist group Hamas started adopting the tactic. The area...

Politicians and diplomats representing the United States, European Union, United Nations, and Israel have condemned recent remarks made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday at the first meeting of the Palestinian National Council in more than twenty years, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. In the course of a speech...

Morocco is cutting diplomatic ties with Iran over the Islamic Republic’s support for a rebel group, Reuters reported Tuesday. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita told reporters that his nation was expelling the Iranian ambassador and would close its own embassy in Tehran due to Iranian support for the Polisario Front,...

Two nuclear weapons experts said that the Israeli revelations about Iran’s nuclear program show a more extensive enterprise than previously thought and could prompt the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to step up its inspections of Iran, NPR reported Tuesday. David Albright, a former weapons inspector and current head of...