Israeli startups in the field of aviation and tourism have a new vehicle for skyrocketing to the stars: El Al Israel Airlines’ new Cockpit hub and accelerator. According to Business Development Director Nimrod Borovitz, El Al is one of the first airlines to establish such a hub. “The aim of...

As discussion continues over whether Americans jailed in Iran should be considered as elements of the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, Bloomberg View national security correspondent Eli Lake wrote Tuesday that doing so would embolden the Islamic Republic to take further hostages. The families of Jason Rezaian, Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati, and Robert Levinson have stated that the...

Three rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel today, causing no injuries. The rockets came on the fourth day of a five-day security drill to make sure Israeli security systems work in case of rocket attacks from Hezbollah or Hamas. The Times of Israel reported: The Israel Defense Forces said two rockets...

None of the issues that last year’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement were supposed to address have been solved, according to a policy brief written yesterday by Grant Rumley, a research analyst for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies. The decision of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to join a unity government...

The document-sharing website and application Dropbox has selected Addalom, an Israeli cloud computing firm, to take charge of security for its Dropbox for Business initiative, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported today. Shamah wrote that a top security firm was necessary because Dropbox for Business users need to be “110% positive...

Israeli academics are seeing signs of an undeclared boycott against them, Ha’aretz reported today. These signs include turning down invitations to attend conferences held in Israel, ignoring requests to write recommendation letters for Israeli scholars seeking promotions, and rejecting submissions from Israeli scholars in peer-reviewed journals. Hostility toward Israel is...

An Iranian court sentenced 18 Christians to prison for practicing their faith, Ben Weinthal, a research fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported Tuesday for Fox News. Iran’s revolutionary court imposed harsh prison sentences last week on 18 Christian converts for charges including evangelism, propaganda against the regime, and creating...

Relatives of Americans jailed by Iran testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday about the ordeals of their loved ones. As The New York Times reported: It was the first time that the relatives of all four Americans — Amir Hekmati, 31, Saeed Abedini, 34, Jason Rezaian, 39, and Robert A. Levinson,...

The United States accused the Iran-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of assisting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by conducting air strikes against anti-Assad rebels battling ISIS, Reuters reported today. Islamic State fighters pushed back rival insurgents north of Aleppo on Sunday near the Turkish border, threatening...

When Elly Gorodetzer’s mother fell off an escalator in the mall, first responders noticed the MyMDband on her wrist and scanned its QR code to access her medical profile, at the same time automatically alerting her loved ones of the incident’s location. No doubt the woman is grateful to her son...