A number of top American sports teams recently sent representatives to scout the latest sensors and video technologies created by Israeli companies, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The technology presentations in New York and San Francisco were arranged by the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry and the Israel Export Institute. Teams...

After representatives from Hamas and the Iranian government met in Beirut on Friday, the two parties promised to work together to unite the Muslim world to face the “Zionist danger” together, Ma’an News reported. Ali Baraka, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, was received at the Iranian embassy in Beirut by the embassy’s head consul,...

When a UCLA student first declared “holy war” against Milan Chatterjee, then-president of the school’s Graduate Students Association and the favored target of anti-Israel campus groups, few could have predicted that it would be waged with the help of an unlikely ally: the UCLA administration. The harassment of Chatterjee got so...

A Gaza journalist was arrested by Hamas on Thursday, Ynet reported, becoming the latest Palestinian media member to have been detained by the Iran-backed terror group this year.  The arrest came the day after Human Rights Watch (HRW) blasted Hamas for its abuse of the media in a wide-ranging report. Mohammed Othman, a correspondent for Al-Monitor, was...

Iran will be boosting its military budget using the $1.7 billion it received in January from the U.S. Treasury Department, Foundation for Defense of Democracies associate fellow Saeed Ghasseminejad wrote in a policy brief Thursday, citing Iranian media reports. The process of allocating the funds, which the White House has said was to settle...

Freightos, an Israeli company that set up the world’s first marketplace for international shipping, has purchased a Spanish competitor, the Jerusalem-based organization announced on Wednesday. The purchase of WebCargoNet will help the it create the “world’s largest freight Big Data database” for companies seeking the best price to ship cargo by air, land...

An unusual hug caused thunderous applause at a recent Knesset ceremony saluting Israel’s emergency medical first-responders and search-and-rescue personnel. Yehudah Glick, a member of the Knesset who survived an Arab assassination attempt two years ago, spontaneously climbed onto the podium to embrace Kabahah Muawhiya, an Arab-Israeli volunteer EMT with the volunteer emergency medical...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continued making incendiary remarks about the United States at a military exhibit this week, emphasizing that the Islamic Republic should boost its offensive capabilities and “avoid negotiating” with Washington, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. To preserve Iran’s future, “in addition to defensive capability, offensive capability should be...

An Israeli soldier was shot and moderately wounded while guarding worshipers at Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, The Times of Israel reported. The soldier was taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva and is now in stable condition, an army spokesman said. While Palestinians burned tires and...

The United States and its negotiating partners secretly granted Iran exemptions from some of its responsibilities under last year’s nuclear deal, which Tehran would have otherwise failed to fulfill in time to receive nuclear-related sanctions relief on Implementation Day, according to a report (.pdf) published Thursday by the Institute for Science and International Security....