Ready for a really yucky statistic? Sixty percent of the 6.8 million liters of daily sewage sludge generated in Brazil gets dumped back into nature untreated. And even that is a big improvement over the situation five years ago. Now the South American country is poised to clean up its sewage...

A Hezbollah officer boasted on Thursday that the Iran-backed terror organization had forced Israel to switch “from an offensive to a defensive doctrine,” The Times of Israel reported. The official’s claim appears to refer to countermeasures Israel adopted across its northern border to fight possible infiltration by Hezbollah, whether by land...

In the early 1970s, when physicist Abraham Katzir was a graduate student at Hebrew University, his supervisor urged him to get into optics, the study of light. The future, he predicted, was all about lasers and optical fibers. So Katzir studied modern optics in the United States and in 1977...

In the latest reaction to a widely criticized decision by The New York Times to publish an op-ed by Palestinian terror chief Marwan Barghouti, without initially identifying him as a convicted killer, a former Israeli general detailed Barghouti’s extensive terror connections and culpability for some of the deadliest attacks of the second...

Two sisters from the Gaza Strip were apprehended at the Erez crossing with explosive materials hidden inside tubes designated for cancer medicine, Israeli officials said Wednesday. The sisters had obtained a permit to cross into Israel so one of them could receive cancer treatments at an Israeli hospital, The Times of...

Determining whether an infection is bacterial or viral used to be a coin toss, until an Israeli startup developed a device for doing just that. Israeli company MeMed announced Wednesday that it has received a $9.2 million contract from the United States Department of Defense in what would be a...