Iran is in the midst of a three-day air war drill using American planes, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday. “The goal of holding this drill is the creation of readiness so as to be able to combat any threat, and should a war occur, the Air Force will be...

Private documents released by WikiLeaks show that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held significantly different private views on Middle East policy than President Barack Obama, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported Monday. In the transcript of a speech given to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago in 2013, Clinton rejected the idea that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was...

We always knew spinach was a great source of energy for our bodies. Now it seems the nutritious leafy green can also provide energy for other purposes. Using a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa invented a bio-photo-electro-chemical (BPEC) cell that...

Amid a faltering economy, Egypt is looking to Israel for economic assistance, with the two countries discussing a series of large-scale projects, Ynet reported Tuesday. The news is the latest example of increasingly-close ties between the two neighbors, who have reached a new level of cooperation under Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after decades...

The Haifa-based startup MeMed has received tens of millions of dollars in investments and prize money to further develop ImmunoXpert, a system now used by hospitals in the EU, Switzerland, and Israel to determine rapidly whether an infection is bacterial or viral. Because they are usually unable to determine the cause of...

Iranian-American father and son Baquer and Siamak Namazi have been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of collaborating with a foreign government, the Mizan news agency, which is controlled by the Iranian judiciary, announced Tuesday. Siamak Namazi, a businessman who advocated for closer ties between the U.S. and Iran, was...

Israel has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading tech research and development hubs, and executives from Silicon Valley’s biggest firms have ideas why that is. With a population just over 8.5 million, the Jewish state enjoys the highest density of startups and venture capital investment per capita in the...

One of the most enduring images of last summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro captured Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian judo competitor, or judoka, turning his back on the outstretched hand of his opponent, Or Sasson, after the Israeli athlete’s victory in a bout that earned him the bronze...

Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday became the latest world leader to criticize last week’s vote by UNESCO, the world body’s cultural organization, in favor of a resolution that denied Jewish and Christian historical ties to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The resolution only uses Muslim names for Jerusalem’s holy sites, and accused...

The UK Labour Party’s failure at effectively combating anti-Semitism within its ranks “has created what some have referred to as a ‘safe space’ for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people, exacerbated by the Party’s demonstrable incompetence at dealing with members accused of antisemitism,” a prominent parliamentary committee stated in a report released...