Database giant Oracle has agreed to acquire Israeli cloud computing startup Ravello in a deal said to be worth $500 million, PC World reported on Tuesday. The acquisition is seen as Oracle’s attempt to offer more comprehensive cloud-based services to compete with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Ravello’s technology...

Israeli humanitarian volunteers have arrived in the refugee camps of Calais and Dunkirk in northern France in response to international calls to help the thousands of migrants living in squalid conditions. IsraAID sent a professional team that includes psychologists and trauma specialists to meet with local and international organizations and...

The United States must take steps to neutralize the threat of Iran’s cruise missile program, researchers at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs wrote in The Wall Street Journal Monday. Jonathan Ruhe and Blake Fleisher noted that while UN Security Council resolutions and the nuclear deal with Iran don’t...

Saudi Arabia halted $4 billion in military and security aid to Lebanon on Friday over what it called “the seizure…of the state administration” by the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah. Lebanese Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi resigned his post two days later in protest of Hezbollah’s influence, stating that “there is an armed party that is...

The antipathy displayed by many on the Left towards Israel is not an example of anti-Zionism morphing into anti-Semitism, but a sign that anti-Zionism is caused by anti-Semitism, the distinguished British historian Simon Schama argued in the Financial Times Friday. Schama noted the escalation of anti-Israel events in the UK in recent months. Most notably, former Israeli intelligence chief...

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October by the intelligence arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been denied access to his lawyer, Reuters reported on Sunday. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, Namazi’s lawyer, told Reuters that he has not received permission from the head of Iran’s...

A joint ballistic missile defense exercise between the IDF and the United States European Command began Sunday. The exercises, known as Juniper Cobra, take place every two years and are designed to enhance cooperation between the two countries’ armies. Over 1,700 U.S. soldiers and contractors will participate in the drills. The previous Juniper Cobra exercise took...

A new Arab-Israeli innovation hub has joined the Tel Aviv high-tech landscape. The TRI/O Tech advanced high-tech entrepreneurial hub in Kafr Kassem, about 12 miles east of Tel Aviv, includes a startup accelerator and the first Arab-Israeli school of entrepreneurship. TRI/O Tech is a joint venture of Tsofen, an Arab-Israeli integration non-profit,...

Lebanon’s Minister of Justice resigned Sunday out of frustration over Hezbollah’s control of the government, which has harmed the country’s relations with Sunni Arab countries. Ashraf Rifi’s resignation came days after Saudi Arabia cancelled a $4 billion military aid deal. The Saudi decision followed Lebanon’s refusal to back Saudi Arabia in its conflict with Iran, which...

Israeli rule over the Golan Heights should be considered “lawful and just” and should be supported by the United States and the international community, Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, argued in an analysis Friday for Real Clear Politics. Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six-Day War....