Senior members of the terrorist organization Hamas met on Monday with representatives of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, and agreed to forge closer ties with the military force under direct supervision of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The delegation was in the Islamic Republic to attend...

If Palestinians want peace with Israel, they will have to stop denying Jewish history and “accept the historic tie and sacred nature of the Temple Mount for Jews,” a former State Department official wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Yehuda Mirsky traced the roots of Palestinian denial...

A leading Democratic congressman told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that support in the U.S. House of Representatives for legislation strengthening Israel’s security is “overwhelmingly bipartisan.” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – Md.), the House Minority Whip, told reporters that there was no lingering bitterness among Democrats towards Israel over Netanyahu’s congressional...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received Togo’s President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss the upcoming Africa-Israel summit that Togo will host in October. Fifty four African nations are slated to attend the summit, which will take place from October 23-27 in Togo’s capital, Lome. Netanyahu is due to...

Muhammad, an engineering student at Azrieli College in Jerusalem, has an idea for a security application to send laptops into sleep mode upon sensing that the user has left the immediate vicinity. It could be helpful for people working in a public library or coffee shop, or even in highly...

By embedding itself throughout Afghanistan’s government and cultivating networks of assassins and spies, Iran is “working quietly and relentlessly to spread its influence … following the withdrawal of the United States,” The New York Times reported Saturday. While Iran was once at odds with the Sunni terrorist group, it now sees the Taliban as...

Hezbollah’s recent defeat of Sunni jihadist near the Lebanon-Syria border and subsequent prisoner exchange underscores the degree to which Hezbollah and Lebanon are indivisible, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The partnership received greater attention after President Donald Trump praised the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri for its efforts to fight terrorist groups including...

A senior Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday in a bid to bolster the relationship with the Islamic Republic. The visit included senior Hamas figure Izzat al-Rishq, currently based in Qatar, and head of the Hamas administration Saleh al-Arouri. They were formally invited to the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian...

An Iranian journalist facing the death penalty in her home country has been granted asylum in Israel, where she is expected to arrive shortly. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotoveli said on Monday that Neda Amin would be arriving in Israel “in the coming days,” though her initial plans to come to...

According to the latest IVC-ZAG  Israeli High-Tech Capital Raising Survey, Israeli high-tech companies raised $1.26 billion in Q2/2017 (April through June), the second-largest amount in five years. The report shows that 21 deals above $20 million accounted for 55 percent of the total amount, VC-backed deals went up from the...