Mustafa Badreddine, the Hezbollah commander who was killed in an explosion in Syria last week, will be replaced by his nephew, who is also the son of another killed Hezbollah commander, the London-based Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Tuesday. Mustafa Mughniyeh, the son of the late Imad Mughniyeh, has been appointed as the...

European banks remain skeptical of doing business with Iran because the country continues to be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force, a global watchdog supported by more than 30 Western countries focused on ensuring the integrity of the international financial system. Iran’s FATF blacklisting, which was spurred by the widespread use of...

UNESCO’s director general condemned Iran’s recently opened Holocaust cartoon contest, saying that the event encourages hatred, violence, and racism. The contest, which began Saturday and will last until the end of the month, offers a top prize of $12,000. “Such an initiative, which aims at a mockery of the genocide of the Jewish people,...

Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold thanked Norway after the Norwegian foreign minister vowed that his country would no longer transfer financial aid to the Palestinian Authority that would be used to pay terrorists. “It is outrageous that killing Israelis has become a source of income for many in the PA,”...

Musician and entrepreneur will.i.am’s new wearable bracelet watch/gadget, Dial, will soon be powered by Israeli technology. The former Black Eyed Peas frontman has acquired the Israeli startup Sensiya to tap into the Tel Aviv company’s language processing capabilities. Financial details of the purchase were not reported, but Sensiya CEO Noam Fine told Geektime that his...

Iranian police have arrested eight women who posted pictures on Instagram without a hair covering as part of an organized crackdown, the Associated Press reported Monday. Elham Arab, a model known for posing in wedding gowns who was one of the arrested women, was shown on state television speaking to...

The Israeli Navy arrested a Hamas-affiliated smuggler who took advantage of recently relaxed limits on fishing boats from the Gaza Strip to bring in weapons and materials that could be used to build rockets, Israel’s internal security service announced on Monday. Salim Jamal Hassan Naman, who was arrested last month, told interrogators that he...

Iran has been “enhancing” its nuclear program and bolstering its uranium enrichment capability, Iran’s atomic energy chief told a group of the country’s ambassadors and envoys in Tehran on Saturday. “We are enhancing the industrial section of Iran’s nuclear activities technologically with modern systems and machines,” said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, according to Fars...

Israel’s rise as one of the world’s leaders in cybersecurity has been boosted by cooperation between the military, government, education, and private sectors, a level of partnership unmatched in the Western world, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Israel’s cybersecurity sector is now worth half a billion dollars annually—second only to the United States....

Congress must do more to fund Israel’s missile defense systems due to Iran’s continued development of ballistic missiles and its commitment to destroy Israel, Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Texas) wrote in The New York Times on Friday. Cruz, who recently suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, criticized the Obama administration...