Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian negotiator and current advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, presented a deceitful account of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy over the course of the Obama administration in a New York Times op-ed published on Wednesday. The tone of the op-ed, which calls on the United States to support the French initiative “for...

The mayor-elect of São Paolo, Brazil, South America’s most populous city, has enlisted the Israeli navigation app Waze to assist in managing traffic for the area’s 20 million residents, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. Joao Doria, a media mogul who was elected earlier this month and will assume office on...

The chief Palestinian peace negotiator praised Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, most of whom have been convicted of terrorist crimes, “for their acts of heroism, and for their ongoing battle with the occupation,” Palestinian Media Watch reported on Thursday, citing the Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper. “Our brave prisoners, who gave...

The World Economic Forum’s 2016-2017 Global Competitiveness Report shows that Israel is the second-best place for innovation in the world, following Switzerland. The annual report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies. Israel also ranks high on university-industry collaboration in R&D (3rd), company spending on R&D (3rd), quality of scientific...

The Israeli Health Ministry will begin a pilot program next month that will provide free HIV-prevention medication to at-risk population groups. In February, the Health Ministry approved the drug Truvada, which reduces the chance of HIV infection. Currently, Israelis can purchase the drug privately for around 3,000 shekels per month after receiving...

Two eight-year-old Palestinian children who were apprehended with knives near Migdal Oz in the West Bank on Wednesday told authorities that they were sent to carry out a terrorist attack, The Times of Israel reported. “A short while ago forces identified and apprehended two Palestinian children under the age of ten near the community...

Advisors to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are articulating policies that suggest that a Clinton administration will adopt a tougher line towards Iran, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported Wednesday. Lake’s report focuses mostly on former acting CIA director Michael Morell, who said in a speech earlier this week that the...

If ISIS or other terror groups expand their operations against Western nations, Europe should look to Israel as “a welcome guide in navigating the difficult moral, legal and tactical terrain ahead,” a Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote Thursday in The Telegraph. Lord David Trimble, the Nobel laureate and former First Minister of...

The fictional superhero Wonder Woman was named an Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. Two actors who played her, Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter, spoke at the world body’s headquarters on October 21 at an event that also celebrated the 75th anniversary of the crime-fighting demigoddess. “Wonder Woman seeks to...

The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a report on Iran that condemned the Islamic Republic’s Holocaust denial, violent rhetoric towards Israel, and support for terrorism. One amendment to the report, which stated that the legislative body “strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s repeated calls for the destruction of Israel and...