Lamenting that the “the administration’s assurances are at odds with its actions,” a staff editorial in The Washington Post today expressed concern that President Barack Obama is prepared to accept increasing Iranian aggression in the Middle East in order to preserve the nuclear deal that the P5+1 nations are negotiating with Iran. The president himself...

Two former Israel Air Force pilots, both passionate athletes, already devised a bio-sensing technology embedded in headgear to measure vital signs. Now, the smart sensors that power their LifeBEAM line of sport caps, visors, and helmets are going into Samsung’s future Simband platform for wearable devices to measure heart rate, blood flow, sweat...

In what is described as a “minor revolution,” the results of next week’s Israeli elections may result in the increase of female representation in top political positions, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday. While the number of women serving in the next Knesset isn’t likely to rise, “the number of women holding senior positions...

A Syrian activist who is visiting Israel said “we saw the Israelis are human beings and not monsters,” Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The activist had been part of a network of health professionals who sought to secretly treat rebels and protect them from the government of President Bashar al-Assad. However, two years...

Noting that scientific collaborations between Britain and Israel are “booming,” Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific adviser to the British Government, writes that “British businesses and universities are keen to collaborate,” in the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, yesterday. From the prime minister down, the government of the U.K. is committed to a stronger...

An investigation into the Associated Press’s news coverage of last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas found that an AP report published last month analyzing the death toll in Gaza was “botched in just about every imaginable way.” In an article for The New York Observer published Tuesday, journalists Richard Behar and Gary Weiss found that the news organization...