The Israeli Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, decided to take the budget allocated for a party celebrating Israel’s 69th Independence Day in May and use it to purchase 100 innovative lightweight wheelchairs from Israeli company Wheelchairs of Hope to donate to needy local children. In a ceremony held at the Orthopedic and Functional Rehabilitation Center...

The British Embassy in Tel Aviv published figures for the first time that reveal the number of Israeli companies active in the UK has increased since the Brexit vote last year. From June 2016 to May 2017, 32 new Israeli companies entered the UK market. They invested £152m ($199 million)...

Israel, PA Sign Cooperation Agreements Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed two U.S.-mediated deals this week, both of which should improve the quality of life of Palestinians. Israeli and Palestinian officials on Monday signed one of the agreements at a ceremony inaugurating the PA’s first-ever electricity substation. While Israel will, for now, continue...

In the latest sign of the growing rift between the Saudi-led Gulf states and Qatar, the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates blasted Qatar’s Al-Jazeera network on Wednesday for promoting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s minister for foreign affairs, charged that Al-Jazeera “promoted anti-Semitic violence by...

Friday marks the second anniversary since Iran signed a landmark nuclear agreement with six major world powers led by the United States. Over the past two years, the Islamic Republic has violated the nuclear terms of the deal at the margins and pursued a much more aggressive military campaign across the...

Electricity supplies in the Gaza Strip have plummeted in recent days, leaving residents without power for more than 24 hours at a time, Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Gaza’s only electrical power plant closed down on Wednesday evening, exacerbating the problem and limiting the electricity supply to two or three...

The first half of 2017 recorded the best six months ever in the history of incoming tourism, according to a Tourism Ministry statement. “We are implementing marketing activities and innovative processes to brand Israel and to bring new airlines and new routes into Israel and all this activity proves itself,...

Three terrorists, identified as Arab-Israelis from the city of Um-el-Fahm, opened fire using automatic weapons at around 7:00 am local time this morning, on Israeli police officers guarding the Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. They then fled up to the Temple Mount platform, where security forces confronted them as...

A Palestinian man admitted to Israeli interrogators that the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying generous salaries to the families of terrorists motivated him to attack Israelis, according to a translated transcript published by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) on Monday. PMW shared the document ahead of Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the Taylor Force Act,...

A British detective sergeant has been nominated for a bravery award for saving the life of an Israeli man in Jerusalem, Jewish News reported Wednesday. The off-duty policeman was nearly killed and sustained serious injuries to his head, after intervening in a brutal assault against a Jerusalem resident by three Arab men....