Representatives Joe Kennedy (D – Mass.) and Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) urged President Barack Obama to enforce sanctions against Iran for its recent test launches of ballistic missiles, Politico reported on Wednesday. “Iran violated UNSC Resolution 1929, which remains in effect until the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] is implemented,...

The recent sentencing of an Iranian woman to lashings, 25-years of imprisonment, and death by stoning underscores the Islamic Republic’s “continued war against women,” according to a human rights activists quoted by Benjamin Weinthal in a report published Thursday in The Jerusalem Post. The punishment, handed down to a 25-year-old who was convicted of...

If there’s one thing an Israeli cannot bear to be called, it’s freier – Hebrew for “sucker.” And in one area of business suckers are born every minute: booking a flight or hotel room. Two new Tel Aviv startups have taken the freier risk out of travel. FairFly has built...

The recent wave of Iranian cyber-attacks against officials in the Obama administration is part of the Islamic Republic’s broader asymmetric warfare campaign against the U.S., Benjamin Runkle, a former Defense Department official, wrote in a column published by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday. Runkle disputed a commonly stated belief...

Australia plans to open a start-up incubator in Tel Aviv as part of an international initiative to boost its technology sector, Globes reported on Tuesday. Yesterday, Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced an innovation program called Ideas Boom as part of his government’s Global Innovation Strategy. Under the program, Australian start-ups...

Senators Kelly Ayotte (R – N.H.) and Mark Kirk (R – Ill.) expressed their concern on Tuesday regarding the White House’s lack of response to the two reported ballistic missile tests Iran carried out since the nuclear deal was announced. In a letter sent to President Barack Obama, the senators wrote...

The Israeli Defense Forces rescued and treated over 2,000 victims of the Syrian civil war since 2013, carrying out secret operations to retrieve wounded civilians and militants who are left by the Jewish state’s border nearly every night, Jake Wallis Simons reported in the Daily Mail on Tuesday. Simons, who...

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s recently released report on Iran’s nuclear activities shows that the regime developed a covert nuclear weapons program that it advanced alongside its publicly declared one, Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general of the IAEA, wrote in an analysis published Tuesday. Calling this finding “disconcerting,”...

A wide range of Jewish organizations in both the U.S. and Europe criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for announcing that it will follow the European Union’s controversial guidelines to label Israeli goods from the West Bank and the Golan Heights, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Calling...

President Barack Obama appears to be leaning towards allowing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to stay in power as part of a political transition, Josh Rogin of Bloomberg View reported on Monday. Despite statements by Secretary of State John Kerry that Assad supports ISIS and that his relationship with the terror...