President Barack Obama signed a bill into law on Friday that will strengthen U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity cooperation and create joint research programs. The United States-Israel Advanced Research Partnership Act of 2016 was jointly introduced by Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), the chairman of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has stripped five lawmakers of their parliamentary immunity, a move likely to consolidate his rule following his unanimous reelection as the head of the Fatah Party, Reuters reported Monday. Three of the parliamentarians sought sanctuary in the Ramallah offices of the International Committee of the...

Hezbollah fighters in Syria are using American military vehicles and weapon systems originally given to the Lebanese army, Haaretz reported Wednesday. A senior IDF officer told Haaretz that Israel has provided the United States with evidence, including photographs, showing that Hezbollah is using American armored personnel carriers (APCs) in its fight to prop...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a bill into law on Tuesday that prohibits state agencies from contracting with businesses or individuals who boycott Israel. The law, which was overwhelmingly passed by the state’s legislature earlier this month, requires any company that seeks to conduct business with the state to assert in its contracts that...

Israel may bring wounded refugees from the Syrian city of Aleppo to Israeli hospitals for treatment, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday. “We’re prepared to take in wounded women and children, and also men if they are not combatants … bring them to Israel, take care of them in our hospitals, as...

In Sierra Leone, people are dying of kidney disease due to a lack of available treatment. But as of this month, kidney patients in Freetown can finally access the country’s first dialysis unit – thanks to the Israeli government. Paul Hirschson, Israeli ambassador to Senegal and non-resident ambassador to Guinea-Bissau,...

Private initiatives by ordinary Israelis continue to gather much needed clothing and medical aid for the Syrian people. A crowdfunding campaign to bring emergency supplies to embattled Syrians is also ongoing and has already raised over $258,000 in five days. The recent charity drives by Israelis for their Syrian neighbors...

The Islamic State on Tuesday took responsibility for a lethal truck attack on a crowded Christmas market in Berlin a day earlier that killed a dozen people and injured 48 more. The jihadist group’s Amaq news agency claimed that a “soldier of the Islamic State … carried out the attack in response to...

Two Israeli women of Ethiopian descent were sworn in as judges by President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday, marking a first in the country’s history. Esther Tapeta Gardi will serve on the Haifa District’s Traffic Court while Adenko Sabhat-Haimovich will sit on the Magistrates’ Court. The ground-breaking appointments of the two attorneys were announced by the Judicial...

A 2,000-year-old bronze coin depicting King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek tyrant under whose reign the Maccabean Revolt took place, was recently found at the Tower of David in Jerusalem, the museum announced in a statement on Tuesday. The treasure was discovered during routine maintenance work, surprising archaeologists who believed that the historic...