April 6, 2016
10:14 pm

Randi Zuckerberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 27, 2012. (CC BY-SA World Economic Forum, Monika Flueckiger, Wikimedia commons)

Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg links Jewish values to business

In talk to philanthropists, former company spokeswoman credits Shabbat for maintaining work-life balance

By JTA

January 22, 2016
6:43 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the assembly at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2016. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

Kerry: Iran and the world were on a collision course to war

Secretary of state defends July 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, which he says ‘makes the world safer’

By Times of Israel staff and AFP

January 22, 2016
1:40 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Israeli journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Agreeing to disagree

Little goes unchallenged in the press as papers report on Abbas’s claims against Netanyahu and a new Education Ministry plan that could blacklist some left-wing artists

By Joshua Davidovich

January 22, 2016
1:58 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Treat Israel like moderate Arab states do, PM tells EU’s Mogherini

Netanyahu slams European ‘double standards’; says more Swedes than Israeli Arabs have joined Islamic State

By Raphael Ahren and Times of Israel staff

January 21, 2016
7:05 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2016. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Israel ‘enables’ PA economy to curb radicals, Netanyahu says

US-Israel alliance is ‘rock-solid’ despite differences on Iran, PM says in Switzerland; adds Islamic State ‘can be defeated’

By Times of Israel staff

January 21, 2016
6:56 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, before attending the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2016. (AFP/POOL/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kerry: Some Iran sanctions relief likely to go to terrorists

But US secretary of state says Tehran will use much of the freed up billions to upgrade infrastructure and pay off debts

By AP

January 21, 2016
1:07 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left and US Vice President Joe Biden meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu powwows with Biden in Davos

Meeting called ‘friendly and warm;’ PM set to meet with Kerry and leaders of Argentina and the Netherlands, discuss Israel opportunities with technology giants

By Raphael Ahren

January 21, 2016
3:57 am

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on the sideline of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Zarif decries US ‘addiction to coercion’ with new sanctions

Iranian foreign minister says ballistic missile program part of Tehran’s ‘legitimate defense program’

By Jamey Keaten

January 15, 2016
10:34 am

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, November 2, 2015 (Flash90)

Peres making ‘excellent’ recovery, plans Swiss trip

Despite mild heart attack, ex-president, 92, set to fly Wednesday to Davos for 15 meetings with world leaders

By AFP

August 21, 2015
4:20 pm

An illustration of an image created by ElMindA's BNA system. (photo credit: ElMindA)

Brain-tech start-up ElMindA makes worldwide ‘most innovative’ list

The first device to assess Parkinson’s is made by an Israeli firm; the World Economic Forum takes note

By David Shamah

May 22, 2015
10:35 pm

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, Jordanian women sew jeans for the U.S. market in a garment factory in the village of Kitteh in northern Jordan. However, for millions of young people in the Middle East and North Africa unemployment has only worsened in the post-Arab Spring turmoil. (AP Photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)

Mideast youth unemployment rises amid post-Arab Spring chaos

Influx of refugees, prolonged conflict and low economic growth keep jobs out of reach for young people across the region

By Karin Laub

May 22, 2015
2:54 pm

Former president Shimon Peres (right) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) on the opening day of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2015, taking place in the Dead Sea resort of Shuneh, Jordan, on May 22, 2015. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Abbas: Israel settlement expansion blocks any peace deal

At World Economic Forum, PA president says he’s committed to two-state solution; Peres says ‘clear majority’ of Israelis back it

By AP and Times of Israel staff

October 28, 2014
3:55 pm

Hatnua's Tzipi Livni shakes hands with Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich in November 2012 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Gender inequality widening in Israel, study shows

World Economic Forum survey ranks Israel 65th out of 131 countries, and second to last in wage parity for similar work

By Spencer Ho

May 7, 2014
8:06 pm

One of the mothers of the missing Chibok school girls wipes her tears as she cries during a rally by civil society groups pressing for the release of the girls in Abuja on May 6, 2014 (Photo credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP)

Nigeria: Hundreds massacred in new Islamist attack

World leaders pledge teams of military experts to help free 300 girls kidnapped by the ‘Boko Haram’ group

By Aminu Abubakar

April 27, 2014
5:21 pm

The Global Information Technology Report's Network Readiness Index map (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Report says: Israeli tech strong, bureaucracy weak

The Networked Readiness Index praises Israel’s innovation, but education and legal issues are a concern