If you could create a symbolic portrait of Israel’s youthful startup culture, it might look a lot like Michael Matias of Tel Aviv. At 19, Matias has already made an international splash as an entrepreneur and tech visionary. After graduating as valedictorian of the class of 2014 at the Walworth-Barbour...

The Marshall Islands needs American help in its standoff with Iran over a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship that was seized by Iran today, Eli Lake and Josh Rogin reported for Bloomberg News. When asked if his country would request that the U.S. rescue the cargo ship from Iran, Junior Aini, the...

In April 2014, Fatah, the dominant faction in the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the terrorist organization Hamas announced the end of the longstanding and violent rift between them, which began in 2007 when Hamas staged a bloody coup to take over Gaza. Both movements announced a series of reconciliation measures. But the...

A United Nations inquiry into incidents that occurred at UN facilities during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge confirmed Israel’s charges that Hamas used those facilities to store weapons and launch attacks against Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon charged that Palestinian militants had stored weapons in three UN...

An analyst with close ties to the Iranian defense ministry has said that Iranian, Syrian, and Hezbollah officials will meet shortly to discuss their combined response to recent attacks in Syria that have been attributed to Israel. Amir Mousavi, director of the Center for Strategic and International Relations in Tehran and a...

A ship traveling in international waters, owned by a company with significant ties to the U.S. government and flagged to the U.S.-protected Marshall Islands, was diverted under fire by Iranian naval forces to the port of Bandar Abbas. The Hill reported more: The Pentagon says the ship at the center of the dispute is...

According to a Quinnipiac poll released Monday, sixty-five percent of Americans believe that any agreement with Iran should be subject to congressional approval—increasing the public pressure on the White House to ensure Congress’ role in any final agreement reached. The current bipartisan legislation before the Senate, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act...

Hezbollah has been taking taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to try and create a “deterrent balance” against Israel, according to an analysis written by Avi Issacharoff and published Monday in The Times of Israel. Hezbollah has been using Druze, Palestinians and, of course, Assad’s own troops to strike at...

Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), predicted in a speech that “the House of Saud is on the edge of disintegration and collapse,” The New York Times reported Monday. “The House of Saud is on the edge of disintegration and collapse,” General Jafari said,...

Tiny but powerfully influential in myriad ways: That could describe Israel itself, but it also describes the nanotechnology advances made by Israeli academia and industry. And that was the message that 1,000 attendees of  – Europe’s largest nanotechnology conference – received loud and clear from 10 Israeli companies and their...