When British physicist Stephen Hawking theorized, 42 years ago, that radiation emanates from black holes, no existing technology was powerful enough to prove it. Now, Israeli professor Jeff Steinhauer can say definitively that “quantum Hawking radiation” is an actual phenomenon. Steinhauer’s findings, published August 15 as the lead article in...

The families of 25 Kurdish prisoners who were executed by Iran earlier this month told an Iranian human rights organization that their relatives’ bodies bore marks of torture, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday. Thirty-six Sunni Kurdish activists who were being held in the political prisoners’ section of Rajai Shahr, a prison located near Tehran, were reportedly taken...

After months of denials that the United States paid a ransom to Iran, the State Department confirmed on Thursday that the Obama administration’s transfer of $400 million in cash to Iran was contingent upon the release of three American hostages. At the State Department’s daily press briefing, Associated Press journalist Bradley Klapper asked Spokesman John Kirby,...

Around 80,000 Iran-backed Shi’ite militia members are currently operating in Iraq, a U.S. military official told Fox News on Tuesday. Baghdad-based military spokesman Col. Chris Garver explained that there are approximately 100,000 Shi’ite militia members fighting ISIS in Iraq, with the number backed by Iran “usually identified at around 80,000.” “The effect of the...

A co-founder of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has denounced the Islamist terrorist organization for causing “destruction and devastation” and apologized to the Palestinian people, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Muhammad Nazami Nasser wrote a Facebook post apologizing to nearly every Palestinian faction for stirring up disunity within Palestinian society. He...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently gave clearance to an Israeli-developed contact lens used to treat corneal edema, a painful eye condition commonly caused by eye surgery, trauma, or aging. The edema (swelling) causes the cornea to lose its transparency, affecting vision and leading to irreversible scarring of the cornea. Israeli startup...

American officials did not allow Iran to take possession of a planeload of $400 million in European currencies until three American hostages were freed, raising concerns that the Obama administration paid a ransom for their release, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. According to U.S. official who were familiar with the sequence...

The commander of the West Bank wing of Hamas expressed concern that Iran’s growing financial and military support of the Palestinian terrorist group will turn it into “an Iranian executive tool,” the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday. Saleh al-Arouri, who lives in Turkey, said in a closed session that the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force,...

The Ford Motor Company has bought the Israeli machine learning startup SAIPS, the automobile giant announced Wednesday, as part of its pledge to develop driverless cars by 2021. The acquisition of the Rehovot-based tech company is reportedly in the range of tens of millions of dollars, though no financial details...

Iran has arrested an Iranian with dual citizenship over alleged ties to British intelligence, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi identified the detained individual as “active in the economic field, related to Iran,” but gave no further details to local media except that the arrest occurred last...