A leading Israeli defense company, state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has won a $777 million contract with India for the supply of Barak-8 long-range surface-to-air defense missiles and missile defense systems for the Indian Navy, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The contract is with India’s state-owned Bharat Electronics Ltd...

South Korea is consistently ranked as one of the most innovative countries, and the fuel that has powered this astonishing metamorphosis is technology. But there are a number of challenges looming over the horizon that will hamper South Korea’s growth if not effectively addressed. As Korean policymakers, aid workers and...

Scientists developing new antibiotics are forever playing catch-up. Virulent bacteria evolve slowly, sometimes taking years before becoming dangerous enough to trigger a full-fledged outbreak. In zero gravity, the trajectory of that same bacteria’s destructive power can be charted sometimes in a matter of days. As a result, pharmaceutical companies increasingly...

The Chancellor of the University of California said that he would allow Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group that promotes boycotts of Israel and which had previously been disciplined by the system, to hold its annual conference at UCLA next month, The Daily Bruin reported Tuesday. Chancellor Gene Block...

The returns of the Bavarian state elections raise questions how these results could affect the current policies of Germany, including towards Israel. The Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), sustained hefty losses to third parties – evidence of an emerging partisan...

A Hamas official wrote that the inability of his organization and Fatah, the main political organization in the West Bank, to work together has made the Palestinians “beggars,” The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Ahmed Yousef, who had previously been a senior adviser to Hamas leader Ismaiel Haniyeh, wrote his critique on the...

Facebook has deleted a video from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s account that compared Jews to termites, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday. The company said Farrakhan’s video was taken down due to the platform’s policies regarding hate speech, The Times of Israel reported. In the video, Farrakhan...

When does fighting contribute to fostering peace? When it’s part of an Israeli-run martial arts program that trains young Jews and Arabs in Israel, the Palestinian Authority territories and the wider Middle East. Budo for Peace was named NGO of the Year at the 2018 Peace and Sport Regional Forum last week in...

Jordan’s King Abdullah announced on Sunday that the Hashemite Kingdom plans to end a lease of two areas of land to Israel that was agreed in annexes to the 1994 peace treaty between the two countries, when the provision comes up for renewal next year, The Times of Israel reported....

The IDF charged that a purported environmental group has been serving as a lookout for the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group, Hezbollah, and set up an outpost to spy on Israeli military activity one kilometer from the border, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The outpost violates United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701,...