Israel is the world leader is drone sales, according to insiders. The Jewish state reportedly sells $400 million in drones annually, and has sold a total of $4.6 billion worth in the last eight years. The data was published in a report by leading business consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, which also found unmanned drones account for 10 percent of the Israeli military's export. In 2008, Israel’s drone exports totaled $150 million, a sum that increased to $650 million for the 2009 year. In 2010, Israel …More

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper criticized nations unwilling to back Israel, calling the Jewish state “the one stable, democratic ally” in the Middle East. “There’s nothing more shortsighted in Western capitals in our time than the softening of support we’ve seen for Israel around the globe,” the prime minister said. Harper made the remarks during a visit to New York on Thursday, adding his rejection of arming Syrian rebels. “We should not fool ourselves about …More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the Jewish state this week following a visit to Russia earmarked by attempts to stop Russian supply of arms to Syria. Russia is in the process of reportedly delivering hundreds of advanced S-300 missile systems to Syria. While Moscow responded that it would continue to uphold existing weapons contracts, press secretary Sergey Lavrov indicated his government would consider cessation of future sales. "We have already gone through with some of our previous …More

Canada deported convicted Palestinian terrorist Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad after a 25-year legal battle. At a news conference in Ottawa on Monday, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the Mohammad affair shows how broken the Canadian immigration system has become and that his deportation sends ”the message that we will no longer be treated like suckers by terrorists.” Kenney noted that Mohammad, 69, a one-time member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, stormed an Israeli …More

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, denying that his government has an anti-Semitic bent, said his grandparents were of Sephardic Jewish descent. “My grandparents were Jewish, so many of the Maduros, same as the Moors [Muslims], converted to Catholicism in Venezuela,” Maduro told Apporea, a pro-government media outlet, last week. “The mother of the Minister of Communication and Information Ernesto Villegas is of the same tradition.” During the interview, Maduro rejected allegations he …More

Sydney's Jewish and Muslim communities are set to share burial space. [Haaretz] Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary. [Yahoo] A swastika was found painted on a New Zealand Jewish center. [Times of Israel] Venezuela's "anti-Semitic leader" admits Jewish ancestry. [Times of Israel] Britain's Lord Ahmed resigns over "Jewish conspiracy" controversy. [Algemeiner] Jewish groups honor US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice. [Arutz Sheva] A look at the new English translation of the Samaritan …More

Israel and Australia jointly released stamps marking the charge of the Australian Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in 1917. The official release Friday in the office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy celebrates the friendship between Australia and the Zionist enterprise that has endured since the battle. Israel’s Ambassador to Australia, Yuval Rotem, noted the friendships forged between Australian soldiers and Jewish residents amid the 1917 battle. “Despite great geographical distance …More

Israeli app Waze is on the verge of some incredibly lucrative buy outs. The navigation app, which has emerged as a highly successful start up venture for its Israeli creators, has potential offers from Facebook and Apple, which could reach more than $1 billion in pay out. Facebook is reportedly interested in picking up the app for a sum between $800 million and $1 billion. Reports are also surfacing that Waze managers spoke with interested Apple execs earlier in the year as well. The app is used by drivers to …More

Struggling to be heard over a flock of bleating sheep, Israel’s ambassador to Senegal invited a crowd of impoverished Muslims to help themselves to some 100 sacrificial animals that the embassy had corralled at a dusty community center. That event, which was broadcast last October on national television and takes place every year to mark Tabaski, the local name of the Muslim Eid al-Adha feast, provides Israel with a powerful platform to burnish its image in a country that is 95 percent Muslim. “It …More

Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was made Australia's first honorary citizen. At a ceremony Monday at Government House in Canberra, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said it was "entirely fitting" that "this man of moral courage and heroic example” be named as Australia's first honorary citizen. Among the guests was Frank Vajda, who faced near-certain death from a firing squad in 1944 when Wallenberg arrived to secure his release. Also present was …More

Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in Shanghai to boost economic cooperation, amid China’s announced interest in helping further the Palestinian peace process. The diplomatic trip marks the first visit by an Israeli prime minister since Ehud Olmert’s time in China in 2007. The government is also hosting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing. Netanyahu will travel to Beijing on Wednesday, after Abbas’s departure. “The Chinese leadership was recently replaced and it is expected to …More

A Jewish burial plot in the island state of Cape Verde was rededicated with help from the king of Morocco. About 100 people attended the rededication ceremony Thursday. “The support of King Mohammed VI to this project is representative of Morocco’s attachment to the preservation of its patrimony--Arab, Jewish or Berber,” Andre Azoulay, the king’s Jewish advisor, said in a statement read during a ceremony hosted by Abdellah Boutadghart, a Moroccan diplomat. Several hundred Moroccan Jews …More