All five of the Hamas terrorists who guarded kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit are now known to be dead. Hamas admitted on Tuesday that Abd al-Rahman al-Mubasar, the last living captor, was killed by a collapsed smuggling tunnel in Gaza on Monday. The others who guarded Shalit were identified as Sami...

The first Israeli college designed to accommodate students on the autism spectrum and with learning disabilities is set to open in March 2016. The college, to be called BE Academic College, which will be run jointly by Beit Ekstein, an organization devoted to helping people with learning and developmental disabilities, and...

A new study by University of Haifa scientists has identified a new form of activity by brain proteins associated with memory impairments in Alzheimer’s disease, and has also found that “repairing” this activity leads to an improvement in memory. “In the study we found that the nerve cells in the...

An Israeli-made ventilation device is being used by the U.S. Army to save troops injured in Afghanistan, David Shamah, technology reporter for The Times of Israel, reported on Tuesday. Pocket BVM (bag valve mask device) is the brainchild of Dov Maisel, an American-born Israeli, and his friend Akiva Pollack, both...

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, threatened to attack Israelis Sunday in retaliation for the death of the terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was killed in an airstrike on a Damascus suburb on December 19. “The Israelis should be justifiably worried,” the Hezbollah chief said. “They should be worried along...

A senior Palestinian official said that some members of Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, want to escalate the ongoing wave of terror against Israelis by orchestrating suicide bombings, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. The official, who remained anonymous, warned in an interview with Israel Radio...