Israel has been exporting gas to Jordan since January, it was announced on Thursday. Yossi Abu, CEO of Israeli company Delek Drilling, said that “since early this year we started to export, it’s not huge quantities, but it’s still an export to Jordan.” Delek and American company Noble Energy hold...

The tech giant Apple sees Israel as the ideal place to develop its next major innovation: Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook called AR a “big idea” that could be available to everyone, industry newsletter Apple Insider reported Tuesday. Steven Milunovich, an analyst at the investment firm...

On April 22, 2014, only a week before the end of the nine-month negotiating period set by the White House, Israeli negotiators felt that they had made progress in talks with the Palestinians, and came up with a proposal to extend the negotiations. But the following day, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s “obsession” with Israel has diverted attention from its mission and made a “mockery” of its proceedings, limiting the good it could otherwise accomplish across the world, the American representative to the council said in a speech Wednesday. Erin Barclay, deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization...

A growing number of Muslim Arab-Israelis are enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces despite the disapproval of their communities, NBC reported Sunday. “There is more openness among Arab Muslims that are not Bedouins to volunteer and join the army,” said Col. Wagdi Sarhan, the head of the IDF’s minorities unit. “We’re...

A new Iranian film shows the country’s forces destroying a U.S. Navy fleet, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Battle of Persian Gulf II, directed by Farhad Azima, has opened in the city of  Mashhad and will expand to other cities in the coming weeks. Azima told the AP that producers crowdfunded $250,000 for the movie, which was...

Maryland lawmakers should approve a proposed bill that aims to prevent “taxpayer money from being used to support discrimination against Israel,” a longstanding trading partner and friend of the state, Josh Block, CEO and president of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Wednesday. The Israel Project publishes...

The leader of the Damascus-based Palestinian terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—General Command said last month that the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah is preparing for war against Israel, “and so are we.” In an interview with the Hezbollah-affiliated Mayadeen TV, Ahmad Jibril called on Iran to ramp...

The United Nations’ envoy for the Middle East peace process on Thursday condemned an overnight rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip, saying in a statement that “such provocations seek only to undermine peace.” .@nmladenov condemns rocket fire from #Gaza at #Israel. Urges all 2 exercise max restraint &...

It took a global effort to save the life of an Afghan toddler suffering from a congenital heart defect. Israeli doctors, who voluntarily carry out heart surgeries for Save a Child’s Heart foundation, this week performed life-saving surgery on the two-year-old boy at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. The...