I will admit that this sounds perverse, but Iran’s recent ballistic missile test was welcome in one important sense. Let me explain. Just more than a fortnight into President Donald Trump’s administration, America and the world have been bombarded with all sorts of crises, to the extent that it feels...

Wix, a globally successful web-development platform that is based in Tel Aviv, is taking on the Super Bowl again with an ad campaign featuring Gal Gadot and Jason Statham. The new commercials are meant to show just how easy it is to create a web presence using the Wix platform....

Pushing Back Against Iran After Iran conducted ballistic missile tests over the weekend despite a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Iran not to conduct such tests, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn announced on Wednesday that the United States was “officially putting Iran on notice” and would not tolerate its...

Israeli tech firms are engaged in secret, extensive business dealings with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, a trend that could be a harbinger of more open cooperation, Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman reported in Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday. According to Shmuel Bar, a former Israeli intelligence official who developed a program...

An Israeli jazz pianist and Czech director collaborated to create a short film featuring Israeli Jewish, Muslim, and Christian children in order to ask a simple question: “Can you tell the difference?” The video premiered on January 9 and is set to the song “Our Journey Together,” which was written...

Israeli and Turkish diplomats conducted their first strategic dialogue in six years in Ankara on Wednesday. Officials from both countries’ foreign ministries met and discussed economic, academic, and cultural cooperation, according to a statement released by the parties after the talks, Haaretz reported. “Both sides viewed developments in the wide...

A delegation of school principals and teachers from Paipa municipality in Colombia came to Israel last month to learn educational strategies that will strengthen local schools back home. The South American educators took part in a tailor-made professional program on Education towards Sustainable Development (ESD) conducted by MASHAV, Israel’s international...

The United States government is preparing to impose sanctions on a variety of Iranian entities in response to the Islamic Republic’s recent ballistic missile test, Reuters reported Thursday. The sanctions target eight Iranian organizations for terrorism-related activities and about 17 for ballistic missile-related activities, a source told Reuters. The sanctions would be imposed using powers granted by...

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK rose 36 percent in 2016, reaching an all-time high, a study by a British Jewish organization revealed Thursday. The Community Security Trust’s (CST) survey of the UK recorded 1,306 anti-Semitic incidents in 2016, double the number reported four years ago and more than...

Moving the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem could “advance American national goals and interests,” Washington’s former ambassador to Israel wrote Tuesday in an essay for Foreign Policy. Daniel Shapiro, who served as an envoy to Israel from 2011 until last month, explained that his support for the embassy...