The UN Security Council on Wednesday extended the UNIFIL mission in south Lebanon for another year under tougher conditions in a move that was hailed by United States Ambassador Nikki Haley as a critical decision to “ensure that this peacekeeping mission has the power and the will to do its...

Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, said on Wednesday that “Hamas has substantially harmed the people of Gaza” with its “commitment to terrorist violence.” Greenblatt made his comments during a tour of the Israel-Gaza border area, accompanied by IDF Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the...

The head of the IDF Intelligence Directorate, Maj.- Gen. Herzi Halevi, in a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Jerusalem this week, warned that Hezbollah is tightening its grip on Lebanon. Citing serious and prolonged violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 by the terrorist group, Halevi called...

The first official visit to Israel by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres this week presents a great opportunity for him to reverse the UN’s discriminatory policy against Israel, Benjamin Weinthal wrote on Fox News. Nearly half of the states in the United States and many Europeans governments over the last...

Criticisms about a new Israeli law restricting entry to anti-Israel activists is both “overwrought and hypocritical,” a legal expert asserted in an op-ed published Tuesday by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. According to international law “all countries have the express right to control their borders and bar entry to anyone,” Anne...

The clementines that Avi Schwartzer picked from his backyard tasted disappointingly bland. As a computer scientist then working as R&D manager at Hewlett-Packard in Israel, he figured there must be a tool or app to help determine, on the spot, a fruit’s quality and ripeness. He discovered “lots of scientific...

Iran has rejected a United States demand for UN nuclear inspectors to visit the country’s military facility, dismissing it as “merely a dream.” Last week, the U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called on the IAEA to seek access to the Islamic Republic’s military bases to verify that the...

Visiting the Ziv Medical Center in Safed on Tuesday, United States Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt praised efforts by Israeli hospital staff for providing critical treatment and care for those seeking refuge from Syria’s brutal civil war. “These are the stories of Israel the world needs to hear,...

For the first time, doctors at an Israeli hospital implanted a device to assist a patient suffering from diastolic heart failure. The trial performed at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital implanted a device into the heart of a 72-year-old Canadian man, suffering from diastolic heart failure, who volunteered for the procedure after...

Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, David Govrin, has returned to his post, eight months after he and his staff were evacuated due to security concerns. The online newspaper Egypt Independent reported that Govrin arrived at Cairo airport with a staff of eight diplomats who were then escorted by a “large security motorcade”...