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…
3 US-Israel-Iran War Live News: The Iran-US conflict is increasingly spilling beyond the battlefield, putting intelligence operations, global shipping and a fragile diplomatic framework under pressure. Iran’s intelligence ministry says its security forces killed two people it claims were linked to US and Israeli intelligence agencies and arrested four others in the southeastern province of Sistan…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), openly considering a presidential campaign in 2028, made waves over the weekend when she declared that “Woke 1.0 was crazy” in a nationally televised ABC News interview where she distanced herself from the most unpopular elements of the progressive movement. Left unsaid during the conversation is what specific policies in the…
Assaf Rappaport is in talks with McDonald’s global management to acquire the franchise rights for the fast-food giant’s operations in Israel, making him the most formidable contender to enter the race so far. The franchise includes roughly 230 locations across the country and is considered one of the most coveted retail assets in Israel. Wiz…
