The Bank of Israel on Tuesday revealed its updated designs for the 20 and 100 shekel bills, which feature the portraits of Hebrew-language female poets, The Times of Israel reported. Although former Prime Minister Golda Meir was featured on the NIS 10 bill, which was issued in 1985 and circulated until the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to London next week for the first meeting between the two leaders. Netanyahu is expected to fly to London on Sunday evening to meet with May on Monday. Not only will it be their first meeting since May entered Downing...

German intelligence believes that Iran has tested a nuclear-capable cruise missile, the German newspaper Die Welt reported Thursday. In addition to a ballistic missile test that Iran itself revealed, Germany believes that Iran also test-fired a Sumar cruise missile, which could have a range of 2,000-3,000 kilometers (1,250-1,875 miles) and could...

As computer devices and the “Internet of Things” continue to break new boundaries and create changes to our lifestyle, new cybersecurity mechanisms to defend our tech-savvy lives are crucial. “Not many years ago, computers were far away. Then they came to our desktops, then to our laptops, and then to...

Iran’s latest ballistic missile test, which the Islamic Republic revealed on Sunday, means that the United States is “officially putting Iran on notice” and would not tolerate any other violations of international norms, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn said on Wednesday. Flynn, who made his remarks from the White House press...

The top two congressmen on the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a joint event on Wednesday, a few weeks after the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, to highlight the dangerous implications of Iran’s destabilizing behavior and emphasize the importance of pressuring it to abide by the terms...

Israel marked 25 years of diplomatic relations with China and India last week, an anniversary that coincided with efforts by both countries to strengthen their relationship with the Jewish state. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Israel in 2017, Ynet reported Tuesday. Modi’s trip to Israel will be the first...

Hamas has succeeded in rebuilding its military strength to levels before Operation Protective Edge in 2014, including quantities of rockets and the extent of attack tunnels, according to a senior IDF official. According to a Channel Two report on Tuesday, the IDF official said that Hamas’ missile arsenal has been...

The world’s yellow-tailed woolly monkey population is critically endangered and repeatedly features on a list of the top 25 most endangered primates. Now, a new Israeli-led conservationist project will ensure this rare primate species will have a protected land area in the Peruvian Andes, safe from deforestation and poaching. This...

A Canadian trade school that originally told an Israeli potential student that it would not accept him because of his nationality has rescinded its boycott of Israelis, the school’s manager of student services told The Tower on Tuesday. Israeli civil engineering student and amateur carpenter Stav Daron wanted to sign...