Have you ever lost your smartphone? Your glasses? Your keys? Of course you have. The question is: How much time is too much time wasted to find them again? Pixie Technology is the newest company on the market to make tracking gadgets that help you find your things. The company...

Hilton and Sheraton are not likely to build hotels in Jisr az-Zarqa, the only Arab village on the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean Sea. But a pair of Israeli visionaries – one Jewish, one Arab – saw tourism potential in the modest fishing village. In January last year, they opened...

The decision by Israeli voters to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party to power is because progress in the peace process depends on the Palestinians, and currently “the Palestinian side doesn’t have a credible partner with which Israel could make a lasting peace,” Noah Feldman argued today in a column for...

The victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in yesterday’s Israeli election reflected Israel’s very real “security concerns,” an unsigned editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal asserted today. The editorial observed that “opposition leader Isaac Herzog also opposed Mr. Obama’s emerging deal with Iran.” In an associated...

Dr. Anat Berko, an internationally recognized expert on terrorism who specializes in studying the motivations of suicide terrorists, was elected to the 20th Knesset yesterday. Berko, who agreed to join the Likud party in December, is also a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF. The Jerusalem Post gave a brief biography...

The Palestinian Authority responded to the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday by threatening to continue diplomatic warfare against Israel. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports: “It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we will go...

Although there will be some minor adjustments made in the vote totals as results from army bases and absentee ballots are counted, the makeup of the 20th Knesset has mostly been determined, and it will have greater representation of women and Arabs. The Jerusalem Post reports: For the second time in a...

Trying to head off a vote on legislation that would require Congressional review of a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration is lobbying senators not to support the bill, Politico reported yesterday. The White House is moving aggressively to limit Democratic defections on Capitol Hill that could undermine its negotiations...

With nearly 4,000,000 million votes counted—more than 95 percent of votes of the total—the Israeli elections emerged with what appeared to be a stunning victory for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party. While exit polls universally put Likud in a dead heat with its principal rival, the Zionist Union, the...

Although the final votes have yet to be tallied, a consensus among Israeli political commentators emerged Tuesday evening suggesting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party may enjoy a significant edge in forming the next Israeli government–with Channel 2’s Ilana Dayan going as far as calling the election in Likud’s...