Romania’s largest water utility, Raja Constanta, signed cooperation agreements with Jerusalem’s Hagihon water utility and with Israeli water-management company Utilis during a business seminar led by the Israeli commercial attaché’s office in Bucharest on May 30. “About half of Romania’s population is not connected to central drinking water and sewage treatment networks,” said...

The State Department repeatedly lied to reporters and the American people, CNN’s Jake Tapper said on his program The Lead on Thursday, the latest riposte in the ongoing scandal over doctored recordings of State Department briefings. Tapper’s segment described three lies told by the State Department in relation to the Obama administration’s negotiations with...

An Iran-backed militia leader whom the United States considers to be a terrorist has grown increasingly important to Iraq’s security apparatus, reflecting Iran’s rising influence in the affairs of its western neighbor, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, popularly known by the nom de guerre of Abu...

A top spokeswoman for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claimed that there was no starvation in besieged parts of Syria while remotely participating in a Washington D.C. press conference on Thursday. The event, hosted at the National Press Club by a group that seeks to pressure the United States to ally...

The Israeli-Palestinian peace conference scheduled to begin in France on Friday may be successful if it leads to direct negotiations between the two sides, but will be a failure if it merely encourages the Palestinians to hold out for the “vain hope of an imposed solution,” a former senior Israeli official said Thursday. Eran...

A Labour politician who called Israel a “terrorist state” has been appointed to serve as the cabinet member for Transparency, Openness, and Equality for Birmingham City Council, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. Councillor Waseem Zaffar’s duties will include ensuring that the Council remains impartial and honest. During a July 2014 demonstration against Israel, Zaffar called on...

Two Israeli nonprofits are among 30 international winners of Impact Challenge grants from Google to promote technological innovations that will make the world more accessible for people with disabilities. Beit Issie Shapiro in Ra’anana received two grants. The first, for $1,000,000, was to develop a free product that will allow people with limited...

The Israeli military has stepped up its efforts to locate terror tunnels inside the Gaza Strip in the last week, Walla reported Thursday. Despite claims to the contrary by Hamas, Israeli authorities said they never agreed to stop using bulldozers or other heavy equipment on the Gazan side of the border fence as long as the threat of tunneling persisted. The...

Before he was elected leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn called Israeli politicians “criminals” and for trade sanctions to be imposed on the Jewish state, a UK-based affiliate of The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Corbyn’s statements, made in various letters to government officials, were made public in response to...

Hamas has decreed that female student drivers must be accompanied by a chaperone when taking lessons, NPR reported Wednesday. Driving schools were informed of the new rule by the government last fall. One driving instructor, Mohammad al-Hatta, described being pulled over by police last fall with a single female student in the car,...