The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas announced that seven of its members died when an attack tunnel they were working on near the Gaza Strip’s eastern border collapsed due to flooding, Reuters reported Thursday. “The Mujahedin martyrs were repairing an old tunnel, from which a number of operations were executed in the [2014] war,” said Izz...

Sony is acquiring Altair Semiconductor for $212 million, according to Reuters. The reported deal, which is expected to close in early February, says the Japanese electronics giant hopes to take a leading role in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector by buying up the Israeli provider of single-mode 4G LTE...

As the international community commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video claiming that “it is not clear” if the Holocaust “is a reality or not.” The Farsi video, titled “Are The Dark Ages Over?”, was posted to Khamenei’s official website. An...

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova sent a letter of complaint to Iranian officials over the country’s upcoming Holocaust cartoon contest, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. The contest will be held as part of the 11th Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, which is sponsored by the Tehran municipality. Organizers are expecting to draw...

The United States dropped a $10 million claim against an Iran-born engineer convicted of sanctions-related offenses in order to facilitate the release of five Americans held by the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Nader Modanlo is one of the seven Iranians who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted in...

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren criticized United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday for “legitimizing murder” with his comments on Palestinian terrorism. Oren, currently a member of Knesset, took issue with Ban’s statement on Tuesday referring to terrorism as a reaction to occupation that is embedded...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed the “Israel lobby” for American hostility towards Tehran, Reuters reported Wednesday. Friendlier relations between the Islamic Republic and the United States are possible, but “the key to that is in Washington’s hands, not Tehran’s,” Rouhani said at a press conference in Rome. The Iranian leader, who is...

Nick Sugimoto, senior program director of the Honda Silicon Valley Lab, makes no bones about it. By 2020, he says, Japanese automotive manufacturer Honda will offer smart cars that have 50 percent fewer collisions. A decade later, Honda’s safety features will take into account not just other vehicles, but also...

Israeli opposition politician and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid said that the nuclear deal with Iran will fund the next war that the Islamic Republic’s proxies will wage against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. “Secretary of State [John] Kerry said himself last week that some of the sanctions...

Ongoing incitement from Palestinian schools, media, and political and religious leaders under the watch of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “positively guarantees” the continuation of anti-Israel violence and terrorism, David Horovitz, founding editor of The Times of Israel, wrote on Tuesday. Horovitz acknowledged that although security cooperation between Israel and...