Several members of Egypt’s security forces were killed in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday in violent clashes with an insurgent group affiliated with the Islamic State. Egypt army spokesman Tamer el-Rifai said that security forces were carrying out a raid on a suspected Sinai Province base, where they uncovered explosives,...

Prompted by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s decision to create a database of Israeli companies to “blacklist,” a bipartisan bill to oppose boycotts of Israel was introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act is sponsored by Reps. Juan Vargas (D – Calif.), Peter Roskam (R – Ill.), Lee Zeldin...

A bipartisan bill targeting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its ballistic missile program, and human rights violations was introduced in the Senate on Thursday. The Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act Of 2017, which was brought forth by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (R – Tenn.), has seven Republican and...

A Palestinian terrorist who was convicted of killing two university students in a Jerusalem bombing accepted a plea deal that will force her to leave the United States, her legal representatives announced Thursday. Rasmea Odeh, who was also found guilty in 2014 of lying on her U.S. immigration form, will avoid jail...

Western Democracies should join the United States in exerting pressure on the United Nations “to shed its reputation for bloated, ludicrous hypocrisy and restore trust and credibility to international institutions,” former Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in Newsweek on Wednesday. Prosor credited newly-installed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and United States ambassador...

Three Israeli-Chinese artificial intelligence technology centers are to be constructed in Israel and China with an initial investment of $10 million, according to an agreement signed March 20 in China by the University of Haifa, the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences....

The first two Israeli students to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University will be announced next week, following a years-long campaign to let Israelis join the list of eligible nationalities. The Israeli students will participate in the program along with the first Rhodes Scholars from Syria, Jordan,...

David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice to serve as ambassador to Israel, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday afternoon. During his confirmation hearing, Friedman explained that his skepticism toward the two-state solution was “due to the Palestinians’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state,” the Jewish Journal reported. “The...

An Israeli maker of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems raised $30 million in its latest funding round, allowing it to expand its global operations, Globes reported Wednesday. Autotalks has raised $70 million to date, including the latest round. News of the latest investments in the company comes as the United States Department of...

The new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday vowed to wipe Israel off the map, in one of his first public comments since assuming the position. Yahya Sinwar, a senior leader of Hamas’s military wing who was recently chosen to be Hamas’s top leader in Gaza, is...