In an historic landslide vote on Sunday, Ukraine elected its first Jewish president – making the Eastern European country the first state outside of Israel that will have both a Jewish president and prime minister. Volodomyr Zelensky, a professional comedian with no political experience, won 73% of the vote, prompting...

Iran’s supreme leader appointed a new chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Sunday, just days after the United States designated the force – and its extraterritorial branch, the Quds Force – as a foreign terrorist organization. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, who has vowed to “cleanse the...

The United States announced Monday the end of waivers that allowed eight countries to import Iranian oil without facing U.S. sanctions as part of an escalating campaign to bring Iran’s crude exports “to zero” and undercut Tehran’s power across the Middle East. The announcement affects China, Japan, Turkey, South Korea,...

A groundbreaking online service to deliver artificial intelligence-driven genetic testing to depression sufferers has just been launched in a partnership between Tel Aviv-based health-analytics company Taliaz and Psychiatry UK, the United Kingdom’s leading online psychiatry service. The online medically-managed Predictix service aims to reduce patient suffering by helping psychiatrists better identify the right antidepressant...

Britain’s equalities watchdog is set to launch a full investigation into the Labour Party over its failure to root out anti-Semitism, the Sunday Times said in an exclusive report over the weekend. Since its inception 12 years ago, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has investigated only one political...

Israel has offered Sri Lanka assistance in the aftermath of devastating suicide bombings at churches and hotels on Easter Sunday that left nearly 300 people dead and more than 500 injured. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “deep shock over the murderous attacks against innocent civilians in Sri Lanka.” The...

Jewish leaders have slammed the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) for holding a vote on a pro-boycott resolution on April 24, in the middle of Passover. The student body is expected to urge the school “to divest from companies engaged in human-rights violations in Palestine” and is supported...

Beijing Capital International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world with more over 100 million passengers passing through in 2018, has selected an Israeli technology to improve runway safety, efficiency and capacity. Tel Aviv-based Xsight Systems’ foreign object debris (FOD) detection solution, RunWize, uses sophisticated image and radar-processing...

Social media giant Instagram has suspended the accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). While Khamenei’s English account was suspended, his Farsi one remains active. The accounts were shut down on Tuesday, a day after the...

The State of Texas has started to divest $72 million worth of stock in a Norwegian company that reportedly boycotts Israel to comply with a 2017 law. The move is the first action taken under the bill, which prohibits state agencies from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. Two major...