Tag: Israel

Israel signals confidence in its relationship with Biden (Laura Kelly, The Hill)

Israeli officials are feeling confident about where they stand in Washington nearly one year into the Biden administration. President Biden took office promising to recenter the...

The robot that knows when you’re lying: Scientists create an AI that can detect deception with 73% accuracy by measuring subtle facial movements (Ryan...

Being able to detect when someone is lying has been a goal for decades, and now, thanks to artificial intelligence, scientists believe they may...

US and Israel announce joint task force on cybersecurity (Monique Beals, The Hill)

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Sunday that it would work with the Israeli Ministry of Finance to address ransomware and cybersecurity issues. The task...

Escaping Bibi’s Shadow (Shalom Lipner, Project-Syndicate)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett returned from this month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) feeling buoyant. Hobnobbing with world leaders in Scotland lent...

US to partner with Israel to combat ransomware attacks (Middle East Eye)

The United States will partner with Israel to combat ransomware, the Treasury Department announced on Sunday, with the two countries launching a joint task force to address cybersecurity. The...

Israeli arms manufacturer participates in Dubai Air Show for first time (Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Middle East Eye)

The Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems opened a branch in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, as relations between the two countries continued to thaw...

Israel can monitor every telephone call in West Bank and Gaza, says intelligence source (Lubna Masarwa, Middle East Eye)

Israel can listen to every telephone conversation taking place in the West Bank and Gaza, a former member of the Israeli Army’s elite signals intelligence...

Rafael finds European partners to market Trophy active protection system (Sebastian Sprenger, Defense News)

Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has forged a partnership with Germany-based Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Spain-based General Dynamics European Land Systems to help market the...

Expand Israel-Arab-US military drills to counter Iran and its proxies (Bradley Bowman and Ryan Brobst, Defense News)

Naval forces from Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States are conducting a five-day multilateral maritime security operations exercise in the Red Sea....

IAI unveils Scorpius electronic warfare system for multi-threat confrontations (Seth J. Frantzman, Defense News)

Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled its new Scorpius family of electronic warfare systems based on active electronically scanned array technology that provides the capability...

US, Israel and Gulf Arab allies launch joint Red Sea drill (Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, Defense News)

Naval forces from the United States, Israel and two Gulf Arab states are taking part in a joint security drill in the Red Sea, a vital...

Israel’s Elbit to make land surveillance system for Cyprus (Seth J. Frantzman, Defense News)

The governments of Israel and Cyprus signed an agreement Thursday to develop a land surveillance system that would see Elbit Systems create the platform. The...

Palestinian activists hacked by Israeli firm NSO spyware: Report (Al Jazeera)

Spyware from the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group was detected on the mobile phones of six Palestinian human rights activists, in the first known...

Libya: Son of military commander Khalifa Haftar visited Israel (Middle East Eye)

The son of Khalifa Haftar landed in Israel on a private jet on Monday as reports continue to swirl about the possibility of the...

Sheikh Jarrah: Can a new ‘popular solidarity’ save the neighbourhood from evictions? (Aseel Jundi, Middle East Eye)

Palestinian families facing expulsion from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah are currently considering their next step after they rejected an Israeli court's...

Tehran, Islamabad urged to remain vigilant against Tel Aviv’s regional intervention (IRNA)

Experts from the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan warning about the Zionist regime's trick to infiltrate South Asia under the pretext of cooperation...