The fate of a Jordanian pilot held by the Islamic State group is still unknown after the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) beheaded Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. An online video released Saturday night purportedly shows an ISIS militant murdering Goto by cutting off his head, ending days of negotiations by...

In a letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, a bipartisan majority of 75 senators pressed the administration to oppose the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) attempts to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). The senators declared that PA President Abbas’ “effort contravenes the spirit of earlier agreements between...

Employees of Israel Aerospace Industries last week gathered to pose for a “space selfie” (embedded video below) Yahoo! News reported Friday. Three hundred employees from Israel Aerospace Industries, or IAI, arranged themselves to spell out the company’s initials, for what they call a space selfie. That’s because the selfie was...

Iran is making the American fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) even harder, according to an analysis published today by Michael Weiss and Michael Pregent for The Daily Beast. The analysis notes that Pregent, when he recently briefed American military advisors who were heading to Iraq,...

A correction published in The New York Times on Friday shows that a key report was mistaken in earlier reporting on Israeli Prime Minister’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s acceptance of House Speaker John Boehner’s (R – Ohio) invitation to address a joint session of Congress in March. This, despite the fact that Boehner’s...

TouchéMedical is developing a low-cost ‘smart’ patch pump designed for patients of all ages with diabetes, Parkinson’s and other chronic conditions. The patch pumps worn by many people with diabetes are a game-changer in managing the daily infusions of insulin needed to control their chronic condition. Now an Israeli father-son...

Everybody agrees that producing energy from wind, sun and other renewable resources makes good sense, but it won’t be widely adopted unless it makes good “cents,” too. One of the cost hurdles to be overcome is storing the energy from renewable sources in a way that efficiently matches the electricity generated to the...

Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was buried Thursday in the same cemetery as the victims of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires. The Times of Israel reports: On Thursday morning, a police escort led the funeral procession to the Tablada Jewish Cemetery. Along the procession route, people waved...

Hezbollah’s increased activity in the Syrian Golan Heights is a sign of an Iranian effort to “militarily encircle” Israel, Phillip Smyth wrote in an analysis for Foreign Policy on Wednesday. While the Jan. 18 attack represents another saga in the long-running war between Israel and Hezbollah, it also underlines a...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) presented an overview of Iran’s record in targeting the United States and its citizens in an op-ed published today in The Wall Street Journal (Google link). After writing that “Iran has been killing Americans for more than three decades,” Cotton offered some examples. In 1983...