Describing it as one more step in dismantling the “the automatic majority against Israel in the UN,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he would be visiting the South Pacific island nation of Fiji early next year. Netanyahu’s South Asian tour next February will also include Australia and...

The ambassadors of eleven Arab countries to the United Nations on Monday harshly condemned Iran’s continued sponsorship of terrorist groups and destabilizing interference in the internal affairs of regional powers, the Associated Press reported. In a letter sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the representatives of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman,...

The microprocessor giant Intel inaugurated a next-generation chip production line at its Kiryat Gat facility in Israel on Monday, the business website Globes reported. The upgrade to the machinery came at a cost of $6 billion, including a $300 million grant from the Israeli government. “The vision of the future is realized...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin praised his country’s growing ties with India while meeting with Indian leaders on a state visit Monday. “I have no doubt that my visit here will help the ties and the cooperation between our two peoples grow stronger: in security and our ability to keep our people safe,...

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is “effectively controlling Lebanon” following the recent election of its ally Michel Aoun to the Lebanese presidency, David Daoud, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, warned in a Newsweek analysis published on Sunday. While Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif personally visited and congratulated Aoun...

The Israeli defense manufacturer Elbit is set to unveil a revolutionary new anti-drone system this week in Tel Aviv. The system, called ReDrone, can be deployed to neutralize a range of radio frequencies used to control drones. Once a hostile drone is detected, ReDrone can prevent the target from receiving the radio...

Fourteen Tanzanian children underwent successful heart surgery during a joint Israeli-German medical mission to Dar es Salaam this month. The five-day medical mission — supported by Save a Child’s Heart Canada and Ein Herz für Kinder — included a German team led by Prof. Felix Berger of the Deutsches Herzzentrum...

Much remains unclear about President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy, and so the two months before his inauguration will be “crucial” as Israel determines how its relationship with the United States will evolve over the next four years, a former Israeli national security advisor told reporters Monday. Gen. (ret.) Yaacov Amidror praised...

Iran and Russia are currently negotiating an estimated $10 billion arms deal, which would see the Islamic Republic buy Russian tanks, artillery systems, planes, and helicopters. Viktor Ozerov, the chairman of the defense and security committee in the upper house of the Russian Parliament, told the media on Monday while on...

The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah showed off its “massive” arsenal of armored vehicles during a “military parade” near the northern Syrian city of al-Qusayr on Sunday, the website al-Masdar News, which is associated with the terror group, reported. Columns of armored vehicles were visible in photos uploaded to Hezbollah-affiliated social media accounts....