Al Jazeera America, the cable news station bankrolled by the government of Qatar, announced Wednesday that it would shut down by April 30. Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language channel that has been accused by U.S. officials of being a mouthpiece for Qatari policy, founded its English-language American affiliate in 2013 after buying Current TV for...

An Israeli man who boasted that he helped the Palestinian Authority catch and kill Arabs who sell land to Jews has been taken into custody by Israeli police “on suspicion of contacting an enemy agent and conspiracy to commit a crime,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Israeli investigative show...

Attempts by the administration of President Barack Obama to downplay the significance of Iran’s seizure of two American naval boats and their crews on Tuesday underscore the degree to which the nuclear deal with Iran holds the president’s foreign policy legacy hostage, Josh Rogin and Eli Lake wrote in an...

Iran has released ten American sailors and two United States Navy boats that they seized Tuesday and held overnight. The country claimed that the U.S. had apologized for entering Iranian waters. The Navy lost contact with the boats as they traveled between Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, and Kuwait....

Iran has captured ten U.S. Navy sailors aboard two American naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The ships were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the Navy lost contact with them, the Associate Press reported. “We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels...

Hundreds of emergency health professionals from across the world are in Tel Aviv and Beersheva this week to share the latest findings and new experiences concerning health system readiness for disasters and emergencies of all types. The Israeli Ministry of Health and the Home Front Command are hosting delegates from...

A senior Iranian official denied that Iran has deactivated its Arak heavy water reactor, contradicting claims made earlier this week by the semi-official Fars news agency, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Fars report, which said that Iran dismantled the core of its Arak reactor and filled it with cement,...

Russia is facing criticism over reports that it bombed the office of an American NGO in the central Syrian province of Idlib, Foreign Policy wrote on Monday. The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) said in a statement that its field office has been “completely destroyed” by a Russian airstrike. The organization’s...

Observing that most Cypriots view Israel as a small country “fighting for survival,” Averof Neofytou, the leader of Cyprus’ center-right ruling party, said that his nation now appreciates the threats the Jewish state faces, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. While Cyprus has long been one of the most hostile European nations towards Israel, Neofytou said that in...

Venture Capital-backed exit deals in 2015 brought in a total of $4.98 billion – the highest in 10 years, according to the new IVC-Meitar Israeli High-Tech Exits Report 2015. Last year’s 52 deal haul even surpassed 2013’s $4.04 billion, which included Waze’s $1.03 billion acquisition by Google. “The increase in...