Chinese investment in Israeli technology is breaking all records. And news that Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company, may be opening a research-and-development center here has the local business world excited for the future. The value of financing rounds involving Chinese investors is projected to grow 54 percent this year,...

Israel will permit hundreds of Palestinian families living in the West Bank and Gaza to access Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount for Friday prayers and to visit relatives in the Palestinian territories and abroad as part of a sweeping policy to ease travel restrictions ahead of the Muslim holy...

The continuing repression of Christians and other religious minorities in Iran raises questions about President Hassan Rouhani’s inclination to adhere to any nuclear deal his country might sign, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Sunday in an analysis for The Jerusalem Post. After...

Sen. Bob Corker (R – Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to President Barack Obama, criticizing his administration for their “breathtaking” retreat from their “original goals and statements” at the beginning of nuclear talks with Iran, The Hill reported today. “It is breathtaking to see how far from...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry released its report on Operation Protective Edge on Sunday. According to the Times of Israel, the Foreign Ministry explained the country’s actions as responding to “an enemy that targets civilians and operates from among its own people.” The central argument, though, is coherent and persuasive and evidence of the...

Andrew Viterbi, the founder of Qualcomm, has donated $50 million to the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, the Israeli business website Globes reported today. Viterbi, an Italian-born Jew, has lived in the US for most of his life. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and received a doctorate from the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey for increased aid to the beleaguered Druze community in Syria during Dempsey’s visit to Israel last week, the Times of Israel reported Sunday. The request was lodged with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman during the...

Several Israeli politicians have spoken up in recent days blasting the United Nations Human Rights Council panel investigating last year’s conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Times of Israel carried remarks from Israeli politicians across the spectrum criticizing the panel, known as the Schabas commission, for its ignorance and bias. The commission...

Matthew Kroenig, a former Defense Department official in both the Bush and Obama administrations, argued in an article published today in Tablet that the nuclear deal with Iran currently being pursued by the Obama administration, which will allow Iran to maintain its capacity for uranium enrichment, is an abandonment of a “70-year-old bipartisan...

An Israeli cybersecurity firm released a report on Iranian hacking efforts primarily targeting Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Yemen, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The Israeli ClearSky cybersecurity company said it has discovered an ongoing wave of cyber attacks originating from Iran on targets in Israel and the Middle East. The...