Wix and Playtika announced back-to-back multi-million dollar acquisitions this week, with the former picking up DeviantArt online art community platform and the latter buying mobile ad tech company Aditor. Both companies said the acquisitions will boost business and expand their global presence. Wix, the Tel Aviv-based web development platform, paid...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed President Edgar Chagwa Lungu of Zambia to Israel on Tuesday, offering him assurances “of our friendship and our commitment to our relationship.” Netanyahu recalled having met Lungu last July in Uganda and expressed his hope that they would meet again in few months. Lungu is visiting...

Iran is using its strategic ties to North Korea to advance its illicit nuclear weapons program, two experts for the Begin-Sadat Center wrote in a paper published Tuesday. Lt. Col. (ret.) Dr. Refael Ofek and Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham wrote that if Iran “is unwilling to lose years...

Israeli security forces demolished nine homes illegally built on private Palestinian land in the West Bank on Wednesday, after removing protesters who tried to stop the demolitions. The police had removed protesters on Tuesday from eight of the nine homes in Ofra, but dozens of protesters holed themselves up in...

A website published by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah released a video clip earlier this week showing strategic sites throughout Israel that the group plans to attack, including nuclear facilities, power plants, and desalination centers. Following Nasrallah threats, Hezbollah’s @Alahednews published clip showing nuclear, strategic Israeli facilities to be attacked...

The Palestinian Authority announced Tuesday that municipal elections, scheduled for May, will only take place in the PA-controlled West Bank and not in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The Ma’an news agency said the decision was taken during the PA’s weekly cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon. A PA statement said that Hanna...

A Jerusalem group is bringing Jews and Arabs together and helping them to get to know each other through backgammon tournaments, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The group Double Yerushalmi aims to strengthen ties between ethnic groups via the popular board game, as well as other cultural activities like singing and dancing....

“If your house was on fire and you could only take one object with you, what would it be?” It’s a common question, often posed when people are trying to get to know one another. I was asked it by a friend just a few weeks ago. I glanced around....

A Palestinian terrorist convicted of killing two university students is scheduled to appear on a panel at Jewish Voice for Peace’s national meeting in Chicago next month, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Rasmea Odeh, a member of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), is set to speak alongside three activists, including...

Hamas is “fully capable of initiating an attack” inside Israel through one of its tunnels, veteran Haaretz military correspondent Amos Harel told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday. The call, which was arranged by The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), took place shortly after Israel’s State Comptroller released a report criticizing the...