Deeplev, a deep-sea marine research station moored 50 kilometers off the coast of Haifa—the first of its kind in the region—is enabling continuous study of the physical and ecological system in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Anchored to the seabed 1,500 meters underwater, the station contains state-of-the-art measuring instruments spread over...

President Donald Trump’s formal recognition last week of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was a step that was “long overdue” as it will force all parties involved in peace negotiations to “adjust to reality,” former State Department official Amb. Dennis Ross said in a conference call Tuesday hosted by The Israel Project....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told European Union Foreign Ministers in Brussels that Palestinian rejectionism, not the status of Jerusalem or settlement construction, were at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Monday. On the first visit to Brussels by an Israeli Prime Minister since 1995, Netanyahu told EU Foreign...

In a demonstration of its complete control over Lebanon, Hezbollah hosted members of an Iraqi Shiite militia along the border with Israel. Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iraqi militia Asaib Ahl al-Haq, as well as members of the militia appeared in a video that was released Saturday, with members of...

Sweden has been rocked by a series of anti-Semitic attacks, following the announcement by United States President Donald Trump that America would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and initiate a process to move the embassy there. Palestinian flags were waved and anti-Semitic slogans heard, when around 200 angry protesters took...

United Hatzalah founder and president Eli Beer received the Conference of European Rabbis’ second-place prize for innovative technology during the Slush Conference in Helsinki on November 30, 2017. CER prizes are awarded annually to three individuals or organizations whose technological innovations are making a better world for all of humanity. This...

The control Hamas exercises over the Gaza Strip was evidenced as Israel once again destroyed a terror tunnel that extended from the Hamas-ruled territory into Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The IDF reported that it tracked progress of the tunnel even before it extended into Israeli territory utilizing “unique...

Returning from a trip to the Middle East including a stop in Iran, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that it was “too early to be confident” that a British-Iranian dual citizen would be released by Iran before Christmas, even as evidence emerged that Iran is seeking what is effectively a...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif asserted that during nuclear talks in 2005 “Britain, France and Germany suddenly demanded that we abandon all enrichment activities” after which “the talks fell apart,” in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times, a recollection that does not match the paper’s reporting twelve...

A delegation of religious figures from the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, sent by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, arrived in Israel this week “in order to send a message of peace,” The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. It is extremely rare for representatives from Arab countries with which...