Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli reportedly is engaged to her boyfriend of one year, businessman Adi Ezra. Ezra, chairman of the food importing company Neto ME Holdings Ltd., based in the southern Israeli city Kiryat Malachi, proposed — and Refaeli said yes — while the couple was vacationing in the Caribbean, according to Ynet. The couple…
PayPal has purchased the Israeli cyber security company CyActive for $60 million. The deal for the Beersheba-based CyActive was signed last week and is expected to close shortly, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. A spokeswoman for CyActive, which was founded in 2013, declined to comment on the reports to local media and Reuters. Pay…
The proposed nuclear agreement with Iran will not be limited to a decade, a senior U.S. official said. On Sunday, the unnamed official who briefed Israeli journalists by phone said the deal would include several phases and last for longer than a decade, according to Israeli media reports. The official added that the world powers…
(JTA) — At the AIPAC conference, a sea of 16,000 Israel supporters spent their time talking Iran policy amid the swirling controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. To the sidelines fell discussion of the Israeli elections, the peace process and Israeli innovation — as well as another quieter aim of the three-day…
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared in public following reports that he was hospitalized with late-stage cancer. Photos of a healthy-looking Khamenei meeting Sunday with environmental officials in Tehran reportedly were posted online in order to “put an end to the Israeli-driven rumors” that the supreme leader was dying, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars…
Israel’s top intelligence officer will visit the United States this week, sources with knowledge of the itinerary said; a sign that security cooperation continues despite disputes between the countries’ leaders over strategy over Iran. Major-General Herzi Halevy, commander of Israeli military intelligence, is scheduled to meet U.S. defense officials and attend a pro-Israel fundraising event,…
The Argentine-Israeli journalist who first reported the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a lawsuit against two state-owned companies that revealed his private data. Damian Pacther’s lawyer filed a lawsuit on Friday against the state news agency Telam and the Argentinian air carrier Aerolineas Argentinas for making public flight information indicating when he was…
Several major powers’ governments have indicated that they will not sign a bad agreement with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Following my speech to Congress, we heard – over the weekend – several of the major powers’ foreign ministers saying that they do not see the need to reach an agreement forthwith and…
The White House named Robert Malley, a U.S. negotiator at the 2000 Camp David talks, to lead the Middle East desk at the National Security Council. Malley, whose appointment was announced on Friday afternoon, since last year has handled the Iraq-Iran-Syria-Gulf States desk. In replacing Philip Gordon, who has been Middle East coordinator since 2013,…
A spokesman for Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said he would press ahead with two bills seeking a greater congressional say over Iran nuclear talks even as he faces corruption charges. “The senator will continue to push forward on the pressing foreign policy issues of the day, to include the two Iran bills he co-authored, which…
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered at a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square calling for a change in the government. The anti-Netanyahu rally held on Saturday night, which attracted up to 40,000 people, was billed as the “Israel Wants Change” event, and was organized by the One Million Hands movement, a grassroots campaign against…
