A top UNESCO panel approved a controversial resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian historical ties to the Temple Mount on Wednesday, prompting Israel to withdraw its envoy to the United Nations cultural organization. Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO criticized the vote on the Arab-sponsored resolution — the second of its kind to be passed...

New funding for Israeli high-tech companies reached $1.19 billion this quarter, marking the second-highest quarterly level in a decade, the IVC Research Center announced Wednesday. That brings the amount of capital raised by Israeli high-tech firms this year to $4 billion—up 27 percent when compared to last year. The largest chunk of that capital came from Ormat...

The Palestinian Authority has dedicated a new school to the mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported Tuesday. A school in the West Bank city of Tulkarem has been named “the Martyr Salah Khalaf School” in memory of the leader of the Black September terrorist group. Khalaf,...

A dual Iranian-American citizen was sentenced to 18 years in prison by Iranian authorities over the weekend on charges related to espionage and “collaborating with a hostile government,” VICE News reported Monday. Reza Shahini, a 46-year-old from San Diego, was visiting his ailing mother in northeast Iran when he was arrested by Iranian Revolutionary...

An ancient papyrus from the First Temple period containing the earliest Hebrew mention of Jerusalem outside the Bible was unveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday. The document is from the 7th century BCE, according to radiocarbon dating, making it one of three existing Hebrew papyri from that time period, The Times...

Two members of the Palestinian terror organization Hamas were killed in the past few days while constructing tunnels, the group has admitted. Ameir Jaber Abu Tuaima, age 22, died on Monday in an “accident” in a tunnel near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s main militia, announced Monday....

It’s been a good few months for Reporty, maker of a free app enabling smartphone users in 160 countries to communicate with emergency dispatchers even without an Internet connection. Launched in March, Reporty won first prize in the TLV Startup Challenge three months later. In October, the company announced a $5.15 million international...

Four Palestinians who attended a Jewish holiday event in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank were arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces shortly thereafter. “Any Palestinian cooperation with settlers is viewed as violating the law, as he cooperates with the enemy,” a senior Palestinian security official told the Times of Israel....

Last week’s UNESCO resolution denying the historical links between Judaism and Jerusalem is one that “denies reality, that erases facts and, most importantly, one that marks a step against reconciliation and peace,” Frida Ghitis wrote in her Miami Herald column Thursday. In addition to “embolden[ing] extremists,” Ghitis wrote, the resolution...

The recent vote by UNESCO, the UN’s cultural agency, in favor of a resolution that denied Jewish historical ties to Jerusalem was “mistaken, inconceivable” and “shocking,” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Friday, promising that his country would vote against such resolutions in the future. Italy abstained from voting on the...