The Sino-Israeli Robotics Institute (SIRI) was inaugurated in mid-December when a delegation of nine Israeli companies — led by Ariel University Prof. Zvi Shiller, chair of the Israeli Robotics Association, and Technion Prof. Moshe Shoham, founder of Mazor Robotics and a world leader in medical robotics — participated in the...

The Israeli military is planning to test women’s ability serve in infantry and special forces units, a move that could open new combat positions for female soldiers and have wide-ranging implications on Israeli society, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Israel Defense Forces, which was one of the world’s...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday criticized last week’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution as a “deeply unsettling” measure that would not help bring about a two-state solution, the Australian Jewish News reported. Speaking at a Chanukah celebration at Central Synagogue in Sydney, the prime minister described resolution 2334, which condemns Israeli presence...

Australia would have voted against last week’s anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council had it been given the opportunity, the country’s foreign minister said in a statement on Thursday. Australia is not on the Security Council and therefore could not vote on the resolution, which criticized Israeli presence in...

The discovery of a working North Korean missile site that was previously thought to be inactive may suggest that the country is cooperating with Iran on ballistic missile and nuclear technology, Voice of America reported Wednesday. PRESS RELEASE: Strategic Sentinel Finds Previously Unknown North Korean Site Read more here: https://t.co/NJk9a9LBgd#NorthKorea #VOA...

In what been described as an “unprecedented” public rebuke of a close ally, the British government released a statement on Thursday harshly criticizing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after his speech about Israeli-Palestinian peace on Wednesday. “We do not believe that the way to negotiate peace is by focusing on only one issue,...

High-ranking members of the Democratic Party, who have in the past week harshly criticized the Obama administration for its refusal to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council, doubled down on their criticisms after hearing Secretary of State John Kerry’s Wednesday speech criticizing Israeli settlement activity. Sen. Chuck Schumer...

The passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution last week denouncing Israeli presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines will make Middle East peace “ever more remote,” former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren wrote Wednesday in Newsweek. Oren, currently a member of Knesset and deputy minister for Israeli diplomacy,...

Lebanon’s parliament on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to approve a national unity government, which includes representatives of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. Lawmakers voted 87 in favor, four against and one abstention, to approve Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri’s cabinet. He had presented the 30-member cabinet earlier this month, having been asked...

It won’t be an ordinary anniversary party when Jerusalem-based OurCrowd showcases its startups to an expected 5,000 members of the global tech investment community in February. Launched in early 2013, OurCrowd’s equity crowdfunding platform enables accredited investors to put money into vetted startups, mostly Israeli, in which OurCrowd also has a...