The scene was shocking: Villagers in Akuyam, Uganda, hadn’t eaten in three days when Sivan Ya’ari and her Innovation: Africa  staff met them in February 2017 on their way to check on the organization’s solar water-pumping and drip-irrigation projects in six nearby villages. “The state of poverty we saw there was nothing...

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Monday that the veto she cast against a U.N. Security Council resolution reaffirming previous Security Council resolutions that do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, was a “defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East...

In his scheduled speech outlining his national security strategy, President Donald Trump is expected to say that the main sources of instability and violence in the Middle East are “radical jihadist terrorist organizations and the threat from Iran” rather than from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Associated Press reported Monday. The AP report is...

The Obama administration obstructed a campaign by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to monitor and prosecute Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, in order to solidify the 2015 nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic, Politico reported on Sunday. The campaign, called Project Cassandra, launched in 2008, was aimed at disrupting...

The Israeli army bombed Hamas targets in Gaza in response to missile fire Sunday night. Three missiles were fired from Gaza towards Israel. One exploded in the Ashkelon beach area, damaging the external wall of a house and a family car. A second exploded in open area, causing no damage or...

Seven Israeli companies appear on this year’s AI 100 list compiled by San Francisco-based CB Insights, joining 92 other private artificial intelligence technology companies from nine countries, chosen from more than 1,000 candidates. Israeli companies are Applitools (app validation), Cybereason (computer cybersecurity), Dynamic Yield (marketing technology) OrCam (wearable artificial vision device), Prospera (computer vision for plant health), Twiggle(ecommerce search engine), and Workey (automated career networking)....

Nearly 16 years ago, in early January 2002, the Israeli navy intercepted the Karine-A, a weapons laden ship, in the Red Sea on its way to the Palestinian Authority from Iran. The capture of the ship and the intelligence gleaned from it by Israel forced the United States to go...

Jewish leaders and Israeli diplomats blasted the Palestinian Authority’s chief diplomat to the United Kingdom after he boasted of beating up an Israeli student when he was a graduate student in the United States, Jewish News Service (JNS) reported Wednesday. In a recent interview with a Lebanese television station, Manuel...

A Palestinian wearing what looked like a suicide belt was shot after he stabbed an Israeli Border Police officer near Ramallah, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The belt did not explode, though it isn’t clear if it had explosives. “A terrorist approached Border Police officers who were responding to a...

It has been a bad few months for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. First, the state of Wisconsin adopted a rule in October prohibiting companies that engage in the boycott from receiving local government contracts, joining 23 other American states with similar laws. Then, Australian rocker Nick Cave declared: “I love...