Several major automakers are teaming up with an Israeli assisted-driving developer to beat Google to releasing driverless cars, Forbes reported Wednesday. General Motors will be the first to integrate semiconductor chips from Mobileye that can map road condition in real-time into its vehicles, followed by Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan in 2018. The amount of data provided...

Leading Republican congressmen have warned Boeing Corporation not to proceed with a rumored deal to sell approximately 100 planes to Iran, pointing out that aircraft could be used to boost the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing activities throughout the Middle East, Fox News reported on Friday. “American companies should not be complicit in weaponizing...

David Hazony’s attempt to enter the mind of the president is gripping all the way through, well-structured, and as persuasive as it’s possible to be given the limited evidence and the space constraints. But it is not the only plausible way to interpret the evidence. I have no theory about...

A United Nations commission ruled on Thursday that ISIS is committing genocide against the persecuted Yazidi religious minority in Syria, The New York Times reported. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing”, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, the chairman of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, told reporters. “ISIS has...

Dozens of U.S. State Department officials have written a letter of dissent calling on the Obama administration to take military action against the Iran-backed regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and urging his removal as a necessary step to defeating the Islamic State, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. The letter was published...

An Israeli financial technology startup is on a mission to make banking and financial activities easier and cheaper for migrant workers. Neema, in collaboration with MasterCard, has launched a debit card system that does not have transfer or foreign currency exchange rate fees, dramatically reducing the cost migrant workers pay to send...

At least four Arab nations voted in favor of Israel’s successful and historic candidacy to head a major United Nations committee, the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported earlier this week. Committee chairs are normally approved by consensus, but Danon’s candidacy, sponsored by the Western Europe and Others group of UN members, was protested by...

A former IDF general warned Israelis on Tuesday that the next war with the Iran-backed Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah would lead to a barrage of rockets into Israel on an order of magnitude higher than anything Israel has yet faced. Major General (res.) Yitzhak Gershon, who served as the head of...

Israel’s technology sector has greatly matured in the past few years and is now second only to Silicon Valley when it comes to diversity of initiatives, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, said while visiting Google’s research and development center in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. “I’m amazed to see how...

The U.S. ambassador to Israel said Washington will “vigorously oppose and counter” the “pernicious” Palestinian-led campaign to boycott Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, who was addressing the 16th annual Herzliya Conference, added that “no one should have any doubt that the policy of the U.S. government” is to fight...