International

IATI connects VC funds with foreign ambassadors and attachés in Israel

The Israel Advanced Technology Industries Association (IATI) held a unique meeting connecting venture capital funds with the forum of foreign ambassadors and attachés in Israel.

|ByIN COOPERATION WITH IATI
From right: Ambassador of Japan, ARAI Yusuke, alongside Ambassador of Singapore, Ian Mak; in the center: Karin Mayer Rubinstein, CEO and President of the Israel Advanced Technology Industries Association (IATI); from left: Ambassador of South Korea, Park Inho.
Discarded cigarettes; Illustrative.

International 'No Smoking Day' highlights the dangers of tobacco

On International No Smoking Day - and every day - there’s an opportunity to pause and ask: is it worth inhaling this again?

|ByDR. ITAY GAL
Italian writer Erri Da Luca.

Winging it: Jerusalem writers festival lineup reveals a shifting cultural landscape

Envelope-pushing European-based American writer Nell Zink joins a stellar cast at this year’s Jerusalem International Writers Festival.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi looks at her watch during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, March 19, 2026.

A golden age of diplomacy: A thing of the past? - comment

Whether the shift in diplomatic tone and practice was inevitable or whether we’ve reached a tipping point, only time will tell. But what’s clear is that the world will never be the same.

|BySHIFRA JACOBS

One man dead after tour boat capsizes in New York cave

The Lockport Cave boat ride is only a small part of the tour of the Erie Canal.

JUNE 13, 2023ByREUTERS
The Erie Canal in New York's northern region.

North Korean youth group donates rocket launchers to military

It is unclear how the group secured funding for the donation.

JUNE 7, 2023ByREUTERS
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses for a group photo with representatives of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) under North Korea's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea

In a man's world, a woman prevailed: Golda Meir, Israel's 'Iron Lady' - opinion

Despite socialist Zionism’s professed commitment to gender equality, she was nevertheless a woman in a male-dominated political world.

JUNE 2, 2023ByMARK REGEV
THEN-US president Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon host then-prime minister Golda Meir at the White House in 1969

Bitter enemies Azerbaijan, Armenia in nascent talks for a peace deal

Unfreezing diplomatic relations could end decades of conflict, but will likely involve the interests of several regional players

MAY 30, 2023ByNICOLE JANSEZIAN/THE MEDIA LINE
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and members of the delegation attend a meeting to defuse tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Moscow, Russia, May 19, 2023.

Deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boom

Political consultancies are also seeking to harness AI, further muddying the line between real and unreal.

MAY 30, 2023ByREUTERS
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during the Florida Family Policy Council Annual Dinner Gala, in Orlando, Florida, U.S., May 20, 2023.

Japan court rules that a bar on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional

This was the second lower court to find a same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.

MAY 30, 2023ByREUTERS
People including plaintiffs' lawyers hold banners and flags, after the lower court ruled that not allowing same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, outside Nagoya district court, in Nagoya, central Japan, May 30, 2023

Peru police seize cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas headed for Belgium

Last year alone, Peruvian authorities seized more than 86 tonnes of drugs and illicit substances, including 28 tonnes of cocaine.

MAY 27, 2023ByREUTERS
DRUGS CONFISCATED during Magen Hanegev.

Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear power plant

The defense ministry's intelligence directorate said Russian forces would soon shell the plant and then announce a radiation leak.

MAY 26, 2023ByREUTERS
A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022.

Russia seeks to extend US reporter's detention by three months, US demands release

Gershkovich is the first US journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War.

MAY 23, 2023ByREUTERS
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in March while on a reporting trip and charged with espionage, stands behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his detention, in Moscow, Russia April 18, 2023

Germany's search for new spies curbed by applicants' work-from-home needs

Want to work from home? Being a spy might not be for you, in that case.

MAY 22, 2023ByREUTERS
What does it take to be a great spy? (Illustrative)