Eighty-eight Democratic and Republican senators signed a letter on Monday urging President Barack Obama to veto any one-sided, anti-Israel resolutions offered by the United Nations Security Council, which would make it more difficult for Israelis and Palestinians to reach a two-state solution. The letter, led by Sens. Mike Rounds (R – S.D.) and Kirsten...

A Palestinian teenager who attempted to stab an Israeli soldier near Hebron was shot and killed Tuesday, marking the fifth consecutive day that there has been a terror attack or attempt, The Times of Israel reported. The dead assailant was identified by Palestinian health officials as 16-year-old Issa Salem Tarayrah....

Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world’s largest generic drug manufacturer, is partnering with chip-making giant Intel to create a wearable device that tracks the progress of Huntington’s disease, Reuters reported Thursday. While Huntington’s is a degenerative and fatal genetic condition, its symptoms can be treated at different stages. The disease causes a breakdown of nerve cells in the...

Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro won a bronze medal for Israel on Thursday at the Rio Paralympic Games, finishing third in the women’s 200-meter individual swimming medley. Norway’s Sarah Louise Rung won the gold, and Spain’s Teresa Parales won silver. It was the third medal for Team Israel at Rio. Marksman...

A Hamas militant issued a thinly-veiled threat against Americans after the State Department officially designated a Hamas leader as being an international terrorist, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The State Department’s designated Fathi Hammad as an international terrorist on Friday, saying that he used his position as a former interior minister “to coordinate...

Asked if he was one of the Israeli defense officials who President Barack Obama claimed considered the nuclear deal with Iran a success, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday that he didn’t know any security officials who felt that way. After a wide-ranging presentation at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that partially...