Microprocessor giant Intel on Tuesday introduced its “strongest and fastest ever” core processor chip, which was developed by the company’s team in Haifa, Israel. Ran Senderovitz, general manager of Intel’s Israel Development Centers, said that the seventh generation processor, code-named Kaby Lake, will run applications up to 12 percent faster compared to Intel’s sixth generation processors and speed up...

Iran announced on Wednesday that it arrested another American-Iranian visitor, the same day that a parliamentary committee investigated whether dual nationals are being recruited as spies, Reuters reported. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps detained the individual in the Golestan province in late July. The American-Iranian was charged with “cooperation with countries hostile to Iran, acting against...

Local and state-run media outlets in Saudi Arabia are beginning to shift their long-held position of enmity toward Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Recent changes include columnists quoting Israeli officials; asking Saudis to “leave behind” their “hatred of Jews”; and calling for direct talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia,...

California’s State Assembly passed legislation to crack down on discriminatory boycotts of Israel by a unanimous 60-0 vote on Tuesday, the Jewish Journal reported. The legislation now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown, who is expected to sign it into law in the coming weeks. When the bill was originally introduced in April,...

The United Nations’ top investigator into Iran’s human rights record blasted Tehran’s recent “illegal” execution of twelve people in a statement released on Monday. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed condemned the August 27 killing of Alireza Madadpour and eleven others on drug-related charges. Shaheed had asked Iranian authorities not to proceed with the executions the day...

A Canadian academic detained by Iranian authorities for nearly three months has been hospitalized due to her declining health, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. According to a statement released by her family, Homa Hoodfar, an anthropologist at Montreal’s Concordia University, suffers from the rare neurological disease myasthenia gravis, which causes muscle fatigue and requires special care. She...

Germany on Tuesday reiterated its refusal to normalize relations with Iran until the Islamic Republic recognizes Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. “There cannot be normalized, complete relations with Iran so long as Iran does not recognize Israel’s right to exist,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration said in a letter to German parliamentarian Volker Beck, the...

Iran’s recent establishment of a United Shi’a Liberation Army is raising concerns that Tehran will further stoke sectarian violence across the Middle East in its pursuit of regional dominance, Radio Free Europe reported on Tuesday. Iran’s August 25 announcement of the formation of a new fighting force with a Shi’ite identifier in its name “will inflame sectarian tensions...

Israel’s agriculture minister said on Sunday that the country will soon begin allowing farmers to export medical marijuana abroad, the online Hebrew-language magazine Cannabis reported. “In two years we will have protocols in place that will allow farmers to grow cannabis,” MK Uri Ariel told Israel Radio, according to the magazine. “The Agriculture...

A new propaganda video produced by Iran’s Organization of Islamic Information, which is controlled by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, portrays a group of Iranian men confronting and destroying an American naval fleet. A translation of the video was released by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Tuesday. The opening scene of...