The Israeli Ministry of Economy recently inaugurated a new Osaka branch in a sign of strengthening economic relations between Israel and Japan. The office will serve as an executive branch of the Israeli trade mission in Tokyo for meetings and for creating opportunities with local companies in the Kansai region...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that the U.S. was attempting to infiltrate Iran using “money and sexual attractions,” the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Revolutionary Guard commanders that authorities should take concerns about “infiltration” seriously and political factions should not use the issue against...

Israel’s Interior Minister Silvan Shalom has issued an entry visa to the exiled and openly gay Iranian poet Payam Feili, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Feili, who was persecuted in Iran for his sexuality as well as his professed admiration for Israel, has been living in Turkey for the past...

A spike in Iranian hacking attacks on U.S. State Department officials has prompted Congress to boost the military’s ability to counter cyber-security threats, The New York Times reported Wednesday. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, informed Congress in closed sessions that state-backed Iranian hackers “were stepping up traditional cyberespionage,...

The State Department acknowledged that the nuclear deal with Iran is not a binding agreement, but rather a set of “political commitments,” the National Review reported Wednesday. The admission was made in response to an inquiry from Rep. Mike Pompeo (R – Kan.). “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is...

When 130 people were killed and 368 injured in a series of terror attacks in Paris earlier this November, 15 clinicians trained by Israeli experts fanned out to area hospitals to offer psychotrauma interventions as the victims were brought in. These French mental-health professionals from OSE, the largest Jewish welfare...

Yazidi women who have been freed from slavery at the hands of ISIS have described their time in captivity to German psychologist Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, who runs a treatment program for female victims of the terrorist group. Some of the harrowing ordeals they experienced are recounted in a recent profile (Google...

Over the next year, BioBee Biological Systems at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu in northern Israel will ship some 600 million specially bred predatory mites to farmers in Colombia as a natural form of pest control. Using the Phytoseiulus persimilis, the most effective natural predator of Tetranychus urticae (red spider mite), will...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that “Israel has every right in the world to defend itself and it has an obligation to defend itself,” while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, Bibi, thank you for welcoming me here. And for...

Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement are routinely threatening artists who are set to perform in Israel, with a number of entertainers saying that the harassment has led them to fear for their lives, Ynet reported on Monday. Patrick Losinski, the producer of the Titans of Metal...