Israeli researchers have devised a way to detect buried landmines using a system of glowing bacteria and lasers. Landmines, which kill or injured an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people each year worldwide, emit small quantities of explosive vapors. Researchers from Hebrew University headed by Prof. Shimshon Belkin of the Alexander Silberman...

Senior first-aid instructors and paramedics Eliaz Mor and Amir Namyot from Magen David Adom – Israel’s national emergency-response organization – are spending two weeks in India training instructors from the Indian Red Cross. This is part of a joint project among MDA, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),...

A South African youth leader has strongly rebuked the charge that Israel is an apartheid state and called on activists to stop appropriating the term when describing its conflict with the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Nkululeko Nkosi, 23, is a member of Africans for Peace, a self-described “collective of independent students,...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of condolence to Egyptian President Abdal Fatah el-Sisi on Monday for the twin suicide bombing attacks carried out by the Islamic State against Egyptian Coptic churches on Palm Sunday. At least 28 people were killed at St. George’s Cathedral in the city of...

Israel has put its police and security forces on high alert ahead of the Passover and Easter holidays, as thousands of visitors are due to arrive this week. 3,500 police officers will be deployed in Jerusalem to protect the anticipated 150,000 people from around the world who will visit the...

Nucleix of the Israeli city Rehovot has received the CE Mark of approval to market Bladder EpiCheck in the European Union countries. Based on epigenetics—meaning “any process that alters gene activity without changing the DNA sequence”—the inexpensive, noninvasive Bladder EpiCheck urine test helps urologists to better monitor their bladder-cancer patients....