Researchers at University of Haifa have pieced together a calendar that is believed to be the next-to-last unpublished text among the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The 364-day calendar was pieced together from some 60 parchment fragments, some measuring smaller than one square centimeter. Unlike the standard Jewish...

The groups who boycotted Scarlett Johansson’s Women’s March speech in Los Angeles due to her position as spokesperson for SodaStream, an Israeli company that employs both Jews and Arabs, was both “clarifying & contemptible,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said on Twitter Sunday. It's clarifying & contemptible that some...

United States Vice President Mike Pence announced on Monday that the United States will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of 2019, ahead of schedule, honoring a bipartisan commitment made over 20 years ago, enshrined in the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995. The Trump...

Is a cure for hemophilia on the horizon? American biotechnology company BioMarin aims to find out with the help of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. BioMarin has chosen Sheba to take part in the next phase of international trials for what’s being touted as a “magic bullet” cure...

The New York Times, in its Twitter feed describing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech saying that the PA would no longer participate in peace talks led by the United States, described Abbas as a “staunch champion of the Oslo Accords.” It was an odd description of Abbas, and appeared...

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) offered reporters more details of the recently discovered and destroyed terror tunnels built from Gaza into Israel, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The IDF dug the Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel that was destroyed in late October, working in shifts around the clock except on Fridays, to...