0 US-Israel-Iran War Live News: The battle between Washington and Tehran is increasingly moving from the skies and seas into the economic arena. As commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz falls sharply and two more vessels come under attack, the United States has warned Iran that it will intensify financial pressure and could keep its…
Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, will offer cryptocurrency trading to customers from early 2027 becoming the first Israeli bank to announce such a service. Customers of Leumi and its mobile banking unit, Pepper, will be able to buy, hold and sell bitcoin BTC$62,684.61, ether ETH$1,869.29 and solana (SOL) through a section of the Leumi Trade…
3 US-Israel-Iran War Latest News: The US has signalled that its naval blockade of Iran could remain in place for as long as necessary, putting fresh pressure on Tehran as efforts to revive a ceasefire remain stalled. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Washington has enough naval power to sustain the operation by rotating ships in…
Israel Aerospace Industries reported the strongest results in its history, with first-half net profit jumping 40% to $449 million from $320 million in the same period last year. In the second quarter alone, net profit rose 47% to $229 million, compared with $156 million in the corresponding quarter. The state-owned defense company’s order backlog also…
On October 8, 2023, while IDF troops were still battling Hamas terrorists inside Israeli communities and on roads near the Gaza Strip, Udi Oster, now CEO of drone company Aitan, formerly EyesAtop, met a reservist he had never seen before. “He arrived in crumpled uniform at the junction where I was, only a few hours…
Israel has published its National AI Strategic Plan, a five-year program committing the government to a national computing base of at least 100,000 advanced AI accelerators, a domestically built quantum computer, and an advanced chip fabrication facility at 5-nanometer technology or below. The National Artificial Intelligence Directorate, the body inside the Prime Minister’s Office charged…
Whatever officially occurs next in the on-again/off-again negotiations towards a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran, unofficially Tehran knows that it has established de facto control over both the world’s two key maritime energy transit routes — the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — for at least as long as the…
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan (L) holds a joint press conference with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty (R) following high-level discussions in El Alamein, Egypt, on Aug. 13, 2026. ( Turkish Foreign Ministry – Anadolu Agency ) August 13, 2026 11:29 PM GMT+03:00 Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned…
About a month before the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, was unveiled at the G20 summit in New Delhi. Envisioned as a network of ports, railways, energy infrastructure, fiber-optic cables and logistics links connecting India to Europe through the Gulf and Israel, particularly Haifa, it was widely seen as…
Four days before then-Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro was captured by US forces on January 3, the United States Treasury announced sanctions against 10 Iranian and Venezuelan individuals and entities involved in the two countries’ weapons trade. Among them was Venezuela’s state-owned Empresa Aeronáutica Nacional SA, or EANSA. According to the US Treasury Department, the company…
