Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Security (SIT), Europe’s largest private organization dedicated to applied scientific research, plans to open a cybersecurity center in Israel later this month, David Shamah of  The Times of Israel reported Friday. The project will be officially launched at the end of June, when dozens...

A multinational delegation of senior military and political leaders has submitted a report to the United Nations asserting that “Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard” during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in...

A photographer known only as “Caesar” who photographed thousands of victims of the regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, and smuggled those pictures out of the country as documentation of the regime’s brutality, shared his story in an extensive report published Thursday in Vanity Fair. Caesar had been a crime-scene photographer for Syria’s...

Iran is sending arms and money to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. Afghan and Western officials say Tehran has quietly increased its supply of weapons, ammunition and funding to the Taliban, and is now recruiting and training their fighters, posing a new...

The Qatar-owned TV station Al Jazeera America (AJAM) is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former executive, Shannon High-Bassalik, alleging that the network discriminated against women and non-Arabs and promoted anti-Israel bias in its reporting, Politico reported Thursday. In her lawsuit, High-Bassalik, who has also worked at CNN, MSNBC...

In a public debate last month against an advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollahi Ali Khamenei, Prof. Sadegh Zibakalam of Tehran University, who is associated with the reformist movement in Iran, argued that Iran’s enrichment program has been expensive for the country with little benefit. His remarks were translated Tuesday by the Middle...

The United States and the other Western nations involved in the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran are prepared to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program despite Iran’s refusal to fully come clean about all of its past nuclear research, the Associated Press reported today. After a November 2013 interim...

Want to take a selfie without hands? Do you dream about connecting with your favorite Chelsea footballers? Struggling to cope with an overflowing email inbox? Israeli app makers have you covered. Here are a dozen made-in-Israel apps that could make your life healthier, more fun, and more efficient. 1. uHealth is a focus-...

After the CEO of French telecom giant Orange made comments in Cairo earlier this week that were interpreted as withdrawing from the Israeli market and supporting a boycott of the Jewish state, international law expert and Northwestern University Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote an analysis, published today in The Washington Post, that accused the company of hypocrisy due...

A rocket that was fired into Israel, setting off alerts in the country’s south, fell short and landed in Hamas-ruled Gaza, the Associated Press reported today. Sirens wailed in some areas warning of the attack late Thursday night and the military initially said it had hit the area of southern...