Palestinian Authority officials confirmed on Wednesday that they will continue paying salaries to terrorists and their families, contradicting an assertion by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that the policy had been stopped. “There have been talks about making the payments in a different way, but not ending them,”...

Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire Hexadite, an Israeli-American company whose automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions will help commercial Windows 10 customers detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks on their networks with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). An official Microsoft statement released on June 8...

Experts testifying at a congressional hearing indicated that effectively combating Hezbollah includes targeting its international financing network, the Free Beacon reported. Hezbollah, which was created by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the early 1980s, has morphed into a global terror network now financed by drug trafficking and other illicit...

The secretary-general of the Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates accused the Gaza-based terrorist organization Hamas on Monday of provoking Israeli forces by firing rockets from a field hospital during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, a war crime under international law, Ynet reported. According to Secretary-General Mohamed Ateeq...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations last week that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) should be disbanded and absorbed into the UN High Commission for Refugees. Netanyahu told ministers at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting that he made the comments to Ambassador Nikki Haley after...

The president of Israel on Monday hosted Muslim leaders and diplomats for a traditional Iftar meal, which breaks the fast at the end of each day during the Muslim month of Ramadan. The ambassadors to Israel from Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan all attended the meal at the President’s Residence, along...

Israel’s deputy chief of staff disputed the effectiveness of the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Lebanon while touring the border with the force’s commander and Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations last week, Israel’s Channel Two reported. After Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, the head of the UN’s Interim Force in Lebanon...

Researchers in Israel report they have discovered a molecule in newborn hearts that appears to control the process of renewing heart muscle. When injected into adult mouse hearts injured by heart attacks, this molecule, called Agrin, seems to “unlock” that renewal process and enable heart muscle repair – something never...

Jerusalem-based renewable-energy developer Energiya Global will invest $1 billion over the next four years to advance green power projects across 15 West African countries as part of a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this week between Israel and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). “In honor of President...

A member of the European Parliament and 17 prominent French intellectuals have accused French authorities of covering up the anti-Semitic motive behind the murder of Sarah Halimi, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported Friday. Halimi — a 66 year-old former kindergarten teacher and widow — was murdered in the early hours of...