Israel has been consulting with Sunni Arab countries on ways to counter terrorism and the rise of Iran, Dore Gold, the director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with the Financial Times on Monday. “The Sunni Arab states increasingly see the Middle East through the same prism...

Sensors are the hidden brain in everything from precision agriculture to connected cars, home appliances to security systems, smart cities to digital health. “A sensor is anything that translates a physical phenomenon to a measurable signal or other information. For example, in the past they used canaries as sensors for...

A Palestinian swimmer has an Olympic-sized pool in her hometown, contrary to claims in news reports that she had no regulation-sized pools to train in, Tablet reported Saturday. Media reports about Palestinian Olympic hopeful Mary al-Atrash indicated that in addition to the usual challenges facing Olympic athletes, al-Atrash also had to...

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Barack Obama telling him to “quickly fix” a Supreme Court ruling allowing terror victims to collect $2 billion from frozen Iranian assets, the Associated Press reported Monday. The Supreme Court ruled 6 – 2 in April that 1,300 American victims of Iranian terror...

An Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the United States in 2009 only to return to his country the next year has been executed in Iran for giving “vital information to the enemy,” the Iranian judiciary announced Sunday. Shahram Amiri had been sentenced to death by an lower court before his execution...

The allegations that the Gaza director of the charity World Vision siphoned tens of millions of dollars to the terrorist group Hamas represents a “profound betrayal of trust,” one of the United Nations’ top officials dealing with Palestinian affairs said in a statement Monday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced on...

Americans being freed from Iranian captivity were not allowed to leave the Islamic Republic until “another plane” had arrived, one of the hostages said in an interview on Thursday, lending credence to the perception that the U.S.’s $400 million cash payment to Iran at the same time as the hostage transfer...

Israeli researchers triumphed over 11 other international teams the 2016 Surgical Robotic Challenge in London with their robot for minimally invasive neurosurgery. The robot, intended for the removal of brain tumors of up to six centimeters (2.5 inches) in size, is operated through a small keyhole in the skull using laser...

The United Nations’ top human rights official called the hanging of up to 20 Kurds by Iran last week a “grave injustice” that followed a dubious judicial process. According to Iranian state media, the executed Kurds were suspected of orchestrating attacks on security forces and of killing two Sunni Muslim clerics, Reuters...

The Knesset held a special session on Wednesday night to commemorate Ze’ev Jabotinsky—the intellectual father of the Israeli Right. And in paying respects, Israel’s leaders read their own characters into the early Zionist luminary, only months after recasting themselves in the role of Theodor Herzl in a similar session. Prime...