The United States government denied entry to Palestinian activist and co-founder of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement Omar Barghouti on Thursday. He was informed by airline staff at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv that he was unable to board his flight because U.S. immigration officials had...

Wild cheers turned to stunned silence Thursday night as Israel’s Beresheet unmanned spacecraft suddenly lost contact with the control center. Only minutes before, it had sent a spectacular selfie as it neared the surface of the moon. It was a little after 10pm. I was at the Jerusalem Cinemateque watching...

After eight years of preparations costing $100 million, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet is poised to make history on Thursday when it reaches the moon. The privately funded lunar lander will face its biggest challenge during the landing maneuver, the last stage of the journey controlled solely by the spacecraft’s computer. Beresheet’s...

Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, announced Tuesday a high-profile trade mission to Israel in May in what will be his first international trip since taking office. “Our delegation will bring business, academic and political leaders to help strengthen the bond between Florida and Israel,” DeSantis said during an appearance in Plantation. The...

Pilots from Israel and the United Arab Emirates are flying alongside one another as part of Iniohos 2019, Greece’s largest annual military exercise. The drill started on April 1 at the Andravida Base in the Peloponnese and will end on April 12. The United States, Italy, Cyprus, and almost the...

An international group of 52 undergraduate and graduate students from Imperial College London recently spent a week in Israel getting acquainted with the local high-tech scene. The students hailed from countries such as Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Ethiopia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark and Spain. They are...

A Washington state white supremacist has been charged with two felonies for threatening to conduct a mass shooting targeting Jews and posting selfies with Nazi salutes on social media. Dakota Reed was arrested in December, a month after the Anti-Defamation League tipped off the FBI about his plans to kill...

With the designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) as a terrorist organization, the United States has taken a critical step in curbing the regime’s aggression in the region and its ongoing intention to arm itself with nuclear weapons, TIP CEO and President, Josh Block, argued in an...

Excitement has fast been mounting for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv on May 14-18, and now it’s at fever pitch with the announcement that pop diva Madonna will perform two songs during the Grand Final show on May 18. The queen of pop is arriving with 65...

In a major defeat for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, home-sharing platform Airbnb announced Tuesday that it will back off of a plan to remove all listings of rentals in Israeli towns in the West Bank. Airbnb reversed its policy following a court settlement Monday between the...