On the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day on Sunday, a $25 million Hall of Remembrance dedicated to fallen soldiers was unveiled on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, where Israel’s national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities are located. The hall features a 60-foot mountain of stones and a bell made...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that his country’s 69th birthday marked “the Independence Day of all the Jewish people” in a video released Monday. “Sixty-nine years ago, in the moments just after David Ben Gurion declared the birth of the State of Israel, we all went out to dance in the...

Israel came to a halt with a two-minute memorial siren on Monday commemorating its 3,117 victims of terrorism and 23,544 soldiers who fell since before the establishment of the Jewish state. Traffic significantly increased to Israel’s 52 military cemeteries, as well the military sections in hundreds of other cemeteries, as some 1.5 million Israelis came...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Sunday expressed its appreciation for North Korea’s threat to inflict “merciless” punishment upon Israel. Hamas appreciates North Korea statement in which it supported the Palestinian's struggle and rejected the continuation of occupation — د. سامي أبو زهري (@DSZuhri) April 30, 2017 “Hamas appreciates North Korea...

Traveling abroad presents many challenges for people with special needs. A new service in Israel, Yad Sarah for Tourists, provides personalized assistance to those who want to visit Israel. Without charge, Yad Sarah for Tourists arranges loan and delivery of medical and rehabilitative equipment to the tourist’s hotel or host’s...

Who Cares About History? Three news items this week were rooted in efforts to rewrite history at Israel’s expense. On Monday, the Hamas-linked Palestinian Information Center mocked Israelis participating in “so-called ‘Holocaust remembrance’” and called Tel Aviv a “settlement.” In less than 140 Arabic characters, the tweet denied the past of a city...

The United Arab Emirates sentenced a man to ten years in prison for smuggling parts to Iran for use in its nuclear program, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The man, an Iranian citizen identified only by his initials S.M.A.R., was convicted of smuggling an electric motor and other devices. While the UAE’s official press...

All 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter Thursday urging the United Nations to stop unfairly targeting Israel. The senators noted that while the U.S. co-founded the UN “with the intention of saving future generations from war,” today many member states and agencies “are using the U.N.’s privileged platform to...

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Israel for a two-day visit on 22 May, official sources in Jerusalem told The Times of Israel on Thursday. A delegation of some 25 U.S. officials landed in Israel on Thursday to start planning what is due to be the president’s first...

Mobileye, the Jerusalem-based global leader in the development of computer vision and machine learning for autonomous driving, has announced an agreement with Nissan Motor to generate crowd-sourced data to create next-generation higher precision maps. The new agreement will use the Jerusalem company’s Road Experience Management (REM) data generation technology to...