The elite 8200 association has chosen its winners in 2012’s Startup Competition. This year’s first place winner is Vecoy Nanomedicines, a firm that uses nanotechnology to fight deadly viruses. The

The supreme leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood – and of its president elect Mohammed Morsi – has called for jihad on Israel. The website Jihad Watch cited a report in

European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso called on Sunday for a return to talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, warning the peace process must not become “an orphan of

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday called the Islamist-dominated parliament to reconvene, in defiance of a military decree dissolving the legislature on the basis of a ruling by the country’s

U.S. real estate guru and CNN and Fox News financial expert, Robert Shemin, is in Israel as part of a world tour of the workshop “The Million Dollar Man.” Shemin,

The agents who carried out assassinations of top Iranian nuclear scientists were not Iranians working for the Mossad but Israelis, according to a book written by an Israeli journalist In

Iran was elected to a top post on the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference, UN Watch revealed Sunday in an exclusive report. The Islamic Republic was chosen for the conference,

The IDF’s Civil Administration stands accused of working to assist Palestinian Authority Arabs in illegally grabbing Jewish-owned land. The head of the Bik’at HaYarden (Jordan Valley) regional authority, David Elhayani,

Several Sephardic yeshivas announced Sunday that they would be canceling the summer “bein hazmanim” (“between the times”) break following Rav Ovadia Yosef’s instruction to do so. Rav Ovadia, the venerated

Women living in the town of Migron, in the Binyamin region, appealed Sunday to Binyamin Regional Council head Avi Roeh in an attempt to avoid expulsion from their homes. The

The demonstration in Tel Aviv demanding equal service by hareidim will be followed by a march through Nazareth demanding that Arab citizens, too, pull their weight. Police have granted permission

United States President Barack Hussein Obama has invited his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Morsi to conduct an official visit to the U.S. in September. Deputy Secretary of State William Perez said

Syrian President Bashar Assad accused the United States in a television interview on Sunday of fueling a violent uprising against his government, The Associated Press reported. Assad, who spoke to

Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon and MK Yohanan Plesner (Kadima), who were appointed to head a team to formulate a new draft law, held a first meeting in Jerusalem on

French television released on Sunday a recording of Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who murdered seven people, including a rabbi and three young children, in the French city of Toulouse several

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will call on Swiss experts who probed Yasser Arafat’s death to take samples from his body for further tests, AFP reported on Sunday. The invitation

The day after Libyans streamed to the polls, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the North African nation for holding its first national election in decades. “After more than

An appeal has been filed with the High Court for the immediate suspension of Muslim work on the Foundation Stone, the holiest place on the Temple Mount, the holiest Jewish

One of the largest gold treasures ever to be discovered in Israel was uncovered last week at an archaeological dig near Herzliya. The treasure, more than 100 gold pieces and

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Afghanistan has been officially designated a “major non-NATO ally,” a status that allows for streamlined defense cooperation, including expedited purchasing ability

The media-led campaign to blow up the coalition ran out of gas Sunday with the Likud’s adopting “in principle” a Kadima draft law proposal – with changes. The current Tal

Thirty-six years after the world’s most famous rescue mission, an Operation Entebbe pilot reveals his plane was so heavily loaded, it barely got off the ground. Reservist Brig. Gen. Joshua

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in Jordan Sunday he is accepting an invitation by Iran  to visit the Islamic Republic for the Non-Aligned Summit in August. Iran is to

The Attorney General and Legal Advisor to the Government has decided to end the investigation that was opened against Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi of Tzfat, eight months ago, on suspicion

Thousands of people attended a demonstration Saturday evening outside the Tel Aviv Museum, demanding that all sectors of the Israeli populace share in the burden of military and national service.

The IAF held a competition this week testing the skill levels of its various unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) squadrons, the IAF Website reported. The participating UAV units were assessed on