A Lebanese-born IT expert with U.S. permanent resident status has been detained in Iran and is being held as a spy despite being invited to the country by Iran’s vice president, according to Iranian news sources. Nizar Zakka, whose LinkedIn page indicates that he lives in Washington, D.C., was invited to Tehran by...

The first ever exchange traded fund that tracks stocks of Israeli technology companies has been launched and will be traded on the NASDAQ, the Israeli finance magazine Globes reported Tuesday. It will track the performance of BIGITech Index, a listing created by the American firm BlueStar Global Investors that tracks 65 Israel high-tech companies traded on stock exchanges in Tel...

The United States stopped the transfer of billions of dollars to Iraq this past summer out of fears that the money was making its way to Iran and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Tuesday. The Journal explained that since the...

An American official revealed that the Israeli Air Force trained closely with Jordanian fighter pilots during a multinational military exercise hosted by the United States this past summer, Reuters reported Tuesday. The official’s comments were prompted by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon confirmation that Israel participated in the “Red Flag”...

Yossi Beilin, Israel’s former foreign minister and the architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords, blasted President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for mishandling the Israeli-Palestinian peace process by failing to adequately engage with Palestinian leaders, The Times of Israel reported. He made his remarks at a briefing...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas indicated that he considered all of Israel to be occupied Palestinian territory while speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Monday. In his statement, which is found in the video embedded below, Abbas asked the...

The recent arrest of an Iranian-American businessman in Tehran suggests that increased economic engagement with the Islamic Republic, made possible by the easing of international sanctions, poses significant risks for foreign investors, Gerald Seib, the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, reported (Google link) on Monday. Hard-liners have...

The Cleveland Clinic and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced the formation of a new online Center for Transformative Nanomedicine, David Shamah, the technology reporter for The Times of Israel reported on Monday. In this new “virtual global center,” much of the work by both institutions will be done online...

Ahead of the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama in Washington next week, the United States is set to approve an upgraded military aid package to Israel that will include the V-22 Osprey, an advanced aircraft that Jerusalem had previously requested, The Times of Israel...

Four Israelis were wounded, three seriously, during two separate Palestinian terror attacks on Monday. Three people were stabbed on Monday afternoon in the central city of Rishon Lezion, The Times of Israel reported. Two of the victims, a woman in her 80s and a middle aged man, were seriously hurt. The third...