International donors pledged over $10 billion to assist refugees fleeing from Syria’s civil war, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. British Prime Minister David Cameron said at the aid conference in London that the money “will save lives, will give hope, will give people the chance of a future.” Participants pledged nearly $6 billion for...

Oxford University Press (OUP) has teamed up with three Israeli education technology companies to boost its online services. The distinguished British publishing house, which publishes more than 6,000 titles a year and sells more than 110 million units annually, announced collaborations with the Israeli startups Tiny Tap, Total Boox and KIDOZ. Last...

Fatah, the political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, praised the three Palestinian men who killed an Israeli policewoman and seriously injured another in Jerusalem on Wednesday, calling them “role models” on its Facebook page. Palestinian Media Watch reported on Thursday that Fatah posted a picture of the three assailants on the same...

The head of Iran’s armed forces said that Tehran does “not pay attention” to United Nations resolutions banning its development of ballistic missiles, and indicated that its missile program is a threat against Iran’s enemies, including Israel, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. “Iran’s missile capability and its missile program will become stronger,”...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with the families of terrorists, calling them “martyrs,” hours after Israeli policewoman Hadar Cohen was killed in a Jerusalem terror attack, Ynet reported Thursday. At Abbas’ meeting, the families of 11 dead terrorists asked Abbas to demand that Israel return of the terrorists’ bodies. A video of the meeting was later...

The United States’ failure to ground a sanctioned Iranian airline that provides logistical support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria underscores a severe loss of American credibility, which the Obama administration should immediately act to restore by penalizing companies and financial institutions that allow the airline to operate, Emanuele Ottolenghi, senior fellow at the Foundation for...

An international group of retired military officers and diplomats published a report outlining the challenges democratic nations face when fighting against irregular combatants, including terrorist organizations, who often exploit social and mainstream media to amplify their propaganda. The High Level Military Group (HLMG) presented their study at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday. Titled “Our Military Forces’ Struggle Against Lawless, Media Savvy Terrorist Adversaries,”...

Israel’s annual Space Week is underway, and science enthusiasts are looking forward to inspecting relics of the Columbia space shuttle, which were brought from the U.S. for temporary display in Israel for the first time. NASA loaned the Israel Air Force Center in Herzliya artifacts used by Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon on...

Despite declarations condemning the atrocities committed by the Iran-backed regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama administration have been “enabling…war crimes” by “offering nothing but rhetoric,” a Washington Post editorial charged on Wednesday. The editorial noted that the U.S. and Russia managed to pass United Nations...

The terrorist group Hamas is facing ridicule on social media for displaying what it claimed to be a reconstructed Israeli tank that turned out be a wooden replica placed on top of a regular vehicle, Al-Bawaba, an independent news website featuring stories from around the Middle East, reported on Tuesday. The “tank” was showcased during a parade...