An Israel-Arab member of Knesset turned himself in for questioning over accusations that he smuggled cellphones and intelligence information to convicted Palestinian terrorists, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Basel Ghattas, an MK from Balad, one of the parties in the Joint (Arab) List faction, presented himself to police in Lod to...

The Israel Defense Forces shut down “the biggest weapons factory ever discovered in the West Bank” during an overnight raid in Hebron on Sunday, Ynet News reported. Troops recovered 15 gun-making lathes, dozens of homemade Carl Gustav-style rifles, Russian 7.62 sniper rifles, M-16 rifle parts with assembly instructions, and large quantities of ammunition in the...

The rectors of 20 Latin American universities signed agreements with Israel’s Hebrew University at a groundbreaking conference last week, the latest indication of increased academic cooperation with Israeli institutions, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Sunday. University heads from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay,...

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has warned that unless Iran slows down the pace at which it is enriching uranium, it will exceed the limits that the nuclear deal set on its possession of the material, senior diplomats told the Associated Press on Monday. While the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),...

Hamas is treating Islamic State fighters in the Gaza Strip and helping the fellow terrorist group transfer weapons to the Sinai Peninsula, where heavy fighting continues between the ISIS-affiliated Sinai Province and the Egyptian army, Avi Issacharoff reported Sunday in The Times of Israel. “It has recently become clear to the Egyptians...

Photographs emerged on Friday of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian commander who is under a United Nations travel ban, touring conquered eastern Aleppo, Amir Toumaj reported in the Long War Journal. It is unclear when the photographs, which were posted on social media, were originally taken. A research analyst at the Foundation...

An Israeli legal rights group has filed a lawsuit in Illinois to block Boeing’s pending $16.6 billion jet sale to Iran, the Associated Press reported Friday. Shurat HaDin–Israel Law Center, an independent non-profit headed by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said that it was seeking a lien against Boeing until Tehran pays off billions of dollars in damages to American victims...

Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged his organization’s bias against Israel on Friday, saying the “disproportionate” fixation ultimately also hurts the Palestinians. “Over the last decade I have argued that we cannot have a bias against Israel at the UN,” Ban said in an address to the UN Security Council. “Decades...

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and Shiite militias fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been accused of committing massacres as civilians and rebel fighters were being evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Voice of American reported Friday. According to leaders of the Syrian opposition, Shiite militiamen commanded by Iran stopped a convoy carrying some 800...

The Israeli company Emefcy has developed a low cost and energy efficient wastewater treatment system that has been deployed globally, from Ethiopia to the Virgin Island of St. Thomas. The company’s award-winning membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) reduces energy consumption by up to 90 percent and sludge yield by half compared...