The Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan is celebrating the addition of a new baby white rhino to its growing 28-strong rhinoceros herd. Tanda, a 23-year-old mare, gave birth to the healthy male calf this week. It’s her fourth birth since arriving at the Israeli zoo 13 years ago. “She is nursing him...

• Kindle

Israel’s top diplomat secretly visited a Muslim country in Africa that has no formal ties with Jerusalem on Monday, Haaretz reported. A team of Israeli envoys led by Dore Gold, the director general of Israel’s foreign ministry, traveled from the West African Muslim-majority nation of Guinea, with which Israel re-established relations after 49 years last month, to the...

• Kindle

New York City’s mayor said that defending Israel is “consistent with progressive values” and that he looks forward to “challenging” fellow progressives who seek to boycott the Jewish state, Jewish Insider reported on Monday. “There are plenty of people who support [the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign] who have advanced degrees...

• Kindle

The Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is gaining valuable experience while “learning to fight on a large scale” in Syria, a former Shin Bet chief told a visiting delegation of U.S. congressional advisers on Monday, Israel Hayom reported. The warning came just days after Israel uncovered a bag of explosives near the Lebanese border, which...

• Kindle

Mobileye, an Israel-based company that developed an accident avoidance system for cars, is partnering with the automotive parts manufacturer Delphi to develop an autonomous driving system by 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Both Delphi, which spun off from General Motors, and Mobileye currently produce sensors and software that manufacturers use to build autonomous vehicle...

• Kindle

Israeli security forces raided seven Palestinian-run West Bank weapons workshops early Tuesday morning, confiscating dozens of illegal guns. An IDF official told The Times of Israel that the operation, the largest of its sort this year thus far, was part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of illegal arms circulating in...

• Kindle

Israel on Saturday praised the Turkish parliament’s adoption of a reconciliation agreement reached between Ankara and Jerusalem in June. “Israel welcomes the ratification of the agreement by the Turkish parliament, and anticipates the continued implementation [of the deal], including the [mutual] return of ambassadors,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement hours after...

• Kindle

A rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip landed between two houses in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Sunday, prompting the IDF to carry out airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza. The rocket, which was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, fell in a residential area beside...

• Kindle

The United Nations and its associated agencies purchased $91.8 million worth of goods and services from Israel in 2015, twice as much as they spent on Israeli products just two years earlier, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. The UN spent just $45 million on Israeli products in 2013, a figure that increased to $69.8...

• Kindle

The Ford Motor Company has bought the Israeli machine learning startup SAIPS, the automobile giant announced Wednesday, as part of its pledge to develop driverless cars by 2021. The acquisition of the Rehovot-based tech company is reportedly in the range of tens of millions of dollars, though no financial details...

• Kindle