It is an unscientific but observable law that the more important an era is, the more dangerous it is. There is, quite simply, more to be won or lost in such times. In this sense, the two great liberal democracies of the modern era—Britain and the United States—are now living...

A media watchdog blasted a report in The Independent that falsely accused Israel of cutting off drinking water to Palestinians in the West Bank during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The report, written by freelancer Peter Yeung and published Wednesday, alleged that tens of thousands of Palestinians were being denied water resources...

The name of 19-year-old Mohammed Zeidan, of Kafr Manda in the Lower Galilee, rose to the headlines this month after Al-Monitor reported that he is Israel’s smartest student for the 2015-2016 school year. Zeidan is the only student in this academic year to score a perfect 800 on the Psychometric Entrance...

Israel’s largest innovation conference ended June 9 with three female entrepreneurs chosen as the top winners of its much-anticipated startup challenge. The winners were selected from a pool of 50 startups who pitched to the judging panels throughout the final day of the TAU Innovation Conference, which drew roughly 3,000 participants. First-place winner Reporty, led by...

A British-Iranian woman arrested by Iranian authorities in April will be charged with attempting to cause the “soft toppling” of the regime, the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing Iranian media. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation who was visiting family in Iran, was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as...

Despite complaints from Iranian officials, sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic is projected to boost its economy by 3.7 percent in the coming fiscal year and by estimates of more than 4 percent annually over the next five years, according to a study (.pdf) published Wednesday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In a...

A major German bank closed an account belonging to an anti-Zionist group involved in the boycott campaign against Israel, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. The decision by Commerzbank, Germany’s second largest bank, to stop hosting the account was confirmed to Weinthal by a “reliable source.” The account was...

A semi-official Iranian news agency issued a report threatening Lebanon’s banking sector if it complied with a U.S. sanctions law targeting Hezbollah just hours before a bomb exploded outside a Beirut bank on Sunday, NOW Media news reported on Monday. “In the wake of the US sanctions law against Hezbollah…and after the financial confrontation...

A senior Hamas official with extensive knowledge of the terrorist organization’s network of tunnels has surrendered to Israel, Haaretz reported Tuesday, citing reports from Fatah-affiliated websites. Bassam Mahmoud Baraka, the son of a Hamas-affiliated religious judge, is said to have turned himself in to Israeli authorities at the border fence between Gaza...

Israel’s experience fighting terrorism has made its pavilion at Eurosatory 2016, the world’s largest defense and security exhibition, a popular destination for nations looking to upgrade their anti-terror capabilities, especially in light of major terror attacks in Orlando and Paris, Globes reported Monday. Thirty Israeli defense and security companies are being...