The P5+1 nations and Iran concluded an understanding to limit elements of Iran’s nuclear research and lift international sanctions on Iran today in Lausanne, Switzerland. Even as he praised the agreed-upon parameters, President Barack Obama raised doubts about Iran’s record of abiding by past international commitments. The New York Times reports on some the...

An “agreement for a framework for a final agreement” between Iran and the P5+1 global powers has been agreed upon, in the words of the German Foreign Ministry, and will be announced in a press conference shortly. The parties plan on finalizing an agreement by June 30, the deadline of the interim Joint...

Members of the senior staff of The Israel Project were profiled in an article published Monday in BuzzFeed about advocacy groups currently in Lausanne, Switzerland as that city hosts negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. Josh Block, the CEO and President of TIP, and Omri Ceren, TIP’s Managing...

A neighborhood club, Sayeret Chesed Yechudit (SAHI)—in English, the Special Grace Unit—empowers disenfranchised Israeli teens by turning them into anonymous goodwill ambassadors. SAHI youth engage in weekly food distribution, and help people with disabilities, the elderly, and Holocaust survivors with shopping, chores, and home repairs. They visit hospitals and nursing...

The complex process of valuation — determining the current worth of a private startup or its securities – has been disrupted by a breakthrough cloud-based software platform from Israeli financial-tech startup AlgoValue. Built by former PricewaterhouseCoopers valuation experts Raphael Meyara and Tsachi Hageg, AlgoValue’s SaaS (Software as a Service) platform...

Saudi Arabia has started asserting itself more in the Middle East in response to the rapprochement of the United States, long the kingdom’s most important ally, with Iran, The New York Times reported yesterday. The kingdom, Iran’s chief regional rival, is leading airstrikes against an Iranian-backed faction in Yemen; backing a blitz in...

In an aggressive exchange with reporters, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced Western attempts to get Iran to compromise on sanctions relief. Zarif’s comments came just before it was announced that the negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland between Iran and the P5+1 powers over the future of Iran’s illicit nuclear program would be extended...

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Ron Prosor lambasted the international body on Tuesday for its discriminatory behavior towards Israel, arguing that the once-venerable institution has been hijacked by undemocratic regimes that wield it as a means to further their own political ends. In an op-ed published by The...

Even as the Obama administration has backed away from its previously-stated goals in preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it still has the ability to deter Iran by making clear “in advance what the consequences are” for violating any deal and developing a nuclear weapon, “and that they will be high,”...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today issued a sharply worded condemnation of the West’s decision to continue nuclear talks with Iran, in light of the latest threat made by Iran against Israel. The Times of Israel reported: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday excoriated world powers over their dogged pursuit...