Why are Israeli TV formats like “In Treatment,” “Homeland” and “Fauda” extremely successful in the United States? It’s all about the characters, says Adam Berkowitz, co-head of the television department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles and president of the international TV Formats Conference held September 12-14 in...

President Donald Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended a plan for the president to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran and ramp up pressure against the Islamic Republic to counter its conventional threats. “Trump’s team plans to work with Congress and European allies to apply new pressure on the Iranian regime,...

Hamas has rejected the Palestinian Authority’s demand for disarmament and has vowed to hold onto its weapons to fight Israel. The terrorist group’s Politburo Chief, Ismail Haniyeh, said in an interview with Egyptian television that “there are two groups of weapons: There are the weapons of the government, the police...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the nation’s largest aerospace and defense corporation announced on Monday that it has enhanced the capabilities of its unmanned drones to evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield or to transport supplies to troops in isolated sections of the battlefield. IAI recently demonstrated a remotely-controlled drone, called...

During a speech commemorating the Jewish year at Paris’s Buffault Synagogue on Monday, France’s prime minister called the ongoing anti-Semitism in France “a symptom of a democratic crisis.” Édouard Philippe said that he would implement a new plan to fight anti-Semitism by means of “prevention, through education and culture” in the coming years and...

During the month of September 2017, investments in Israeli companies remained strong. Innoviz Technologies of Kfar Saba raised $65 million in Series B funding as its LiDAR sensing solution for autonomous vehicles moves into mass production. Delphi Automotive, Magna International, 360 Capital Partners, Glory Ventures, Naver, Zohar Zisapel, Vertex Venture Capital,...

Commenting on the recent reconciliation talks between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, said that any Palestinian government must accept the Quartet principles and “commit to nonviolence” in an official statement released Monday on Twitter. “The United States stresses that any Palestinian...

A military spokesperson for the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has warned that the group’s missiles can hit covert Israeli bases in Eritrea and his forces would soon have the capacity to reach bases in Israel itself, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Col. Aziz Rashid was quoted by Al Masirah,...

The United States Army will be installing an Israeli-made anti-rocket system on a number of its M1A2 Abrams tanks. The Pentagon will outfit the tanks with the Trophy active-protective system (APS) which can detect and destroy incoming projectiles. The U.S. will be the first army other than Israel’s to deploy the systems,...

A nineteen-year-old female Iranian grandmaster announced that she was joining the Unites States chess federation after having been expelled from the Iranian federation earlier this year for failing to cover her hair during a tournament, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. Dorsa Derakhshani’s registration, according to the FIDE, the World Chess Federation database, has been...