A sustainable Israeli packaging solution is now being offered by Google Express as a cost-effective and plastic-free alternative to the hundreds of retailers and brands on its U.S. shopping platform. TIPA, founded by two Israeli moms in 2010, innovated an award-winning line of compostable flexible packaging now used in several...

A rocket was fired at the headquarters of global oil companies, including U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil, near Iraq’s southern city of Basra early on Wednesday, raising alarm amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran. The rocket targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi Drilling Company in the Burjesia site...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the U.S.-sponsored conference on the Palestinian economy which will take place in Bahrain later this month, confirming Israeli participation in the event. The Israeli delegation will consist of private citizens involved in business, high-tech, and innovation, sources said, as well as Yoav Mordechai,...

Israeli experts will assist the northern Indian state of Punjab to develop a plan for the conservation and management of critical water resources to tackle declining ground water in the region, David Gerstman reported in the Algemeiner. Punjab’s water resources minister, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, met Saturday with a team of...

Scientists cannot yet make a living copy of your brain. But researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have done something almost as astounding: on a chip, they’ve duplicated patients’ blood-brain barrier (BBB) using the individuals’ own cells. The BBB-Chip functions as it would in...

Underlining Israel’s growing importance as a worldwide auto-tech hub, major automakers Ford, Renault and Nissan all opened innovation facilities in Tel Aviv over the past few weeks. Renault-Nissan’s 1,600-square-meter Alliance Innovation Lab Tel Aviv, in an exclusive partnership with the Israel Innovation Authority, focuses on Israeli startups developing products and...

The United States will send 1,000 additional troops and more military resources to the Middle East amid soaring tensions with Iran, the Pentagon announced Monday. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said in a statement that the troops were being sent “for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats”...

Democratic Presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that if he were elected President he would not move the United States Embassy back to Tel Aviv from Jerusalem. The decision to relocate the Embassy honored bipartisan Congressional requirements first passed into law over 20 years ago...

Iran issued an ultimatum to Europe on Monday, warning that within days the Islamic Republic will exceed the limit on its stockpile of uranium under the 2015 nuclear accord. The violation, which Tehran said would happen within ten days, could see Iranian enrichment levels reaching up to 20 percent – just...

As Tel Aviv Pride, the largest LGBTQ event in the Middle East and Asia, kicked off in Israel last week, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, reiterated the Islamic Republic’s right to execute homosexuals. Paul Ronzheimer, a reporter for the German daily newspaper Bild, said on Twitter that he had...