The Palestinians’ Extreme Negotiators Two Palestinian peace negotiators were in the spotlight this week, but what was on display was not their compromising natures, but rather their extremism. Chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was quoted by the official Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida earlier this month praising terrorists who are imprisoned by Israel. “The prisoners’...

Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic medicines producer, and the American computing giant IBM announced on Wednesday that they will expand their global e-Health alliance to “[discover] new treatment options and [improve] chronic disease management,” The Times of Israel reported. Both initiatives will be hosted on IBM’s Watson Health Cloud...

Mohammad Shtayyeh, a former Palestinian negotiator and current advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, presented a deceitful account of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy over the course of the Obama administration in a New York Times op-ed published on Wednesday. The tone of the op-ed, which calls on the United States to support the French initiative “for...

The mayor-elect of São Paolo, Brazil, South America’s most populous city, has enlisted the Israeli navigation app Waze to assist in managing traffic for the area’s 20 million residents, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Wednesday. Joao Doria, a media mogul who was elected earlier this month and will assume office on...

The World Economic Forum’s 2016-2017 Global Competitiveness Report shows that Israel is the second-best place for innovation in the world, following Switzerland. The annual report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies. Israel also ranks high on university-industry collaboration in R&D (3rd), company spending on R&D (3rd), quality of scientific...

The Israeli Health Ministry will begin a pilot program next month that will provide free HIV-prevention medication to at-risk population groups. In February, the Health Ministry approved the drug Truvada, which reduces the chance of HIV infection. Currently, Israelis can purchase the drug privately for around 3,000 shekels per month after receiving...