Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has many compelling reasons not to achieve statehood, which may explain why peace negotiations have failed, Gadi Taub argued in a Haaretz op-ed Thursday. Taub was prompted to examine why Abbas doesn’t seem to be taking the steps necessary to “liberate his people from Israeli...

A series of extreme anti-Israel events has threatened to transform Vassar College from “a prestigious institution into a parody ripe for ridicule,” Mark Yudof and Ken Waltzer wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, calling on the university to “confront this wave of anti-Semitism.” Yudof, the former president of the University...

Alzheimer’s disease affects some 35 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 115 million by 2050, yet it is not currently possible to detect the disease before it has caused loss of memory and function. Even then, the tests available are invasive and/or expensive. The quest to develop a...

An off-duty Israeli soldier was killed and another man seriously wounded after being stabbed by two Palestinians in a supermarket north of Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, was evacuated from the West Bank market where he was attacked and hospitalized in critical condition...

Meeting with a group of mothers and their families from Israeli communities near the Gaza border, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power heard about the reality of daily life under the threat of rocket attacks from the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday....

Senior Palestinian Authority officials blamed a group of British parliamentarians for the entire conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred at a Ramallah lunch meeting between a delegation from Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), a group that brings British lawmakers from...