Palestinian efforts to impose a final peace agreement upon Israel by appealing to international bodies constitutes a “fundamental breach” of the Oslo Accords, former Ambassador Alan Baker wrote in a ten-point analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) on Monday. Baker formerly served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Ministry...

The American Historical Association, the largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States, voted down anti-Israel resolutions at their annual meeting yesterday. Inside Higher Ed reports: At their annual meeting here, members of the American Historical Association rejected — by a vote of 144 to 51 —...

Former American peace negotiator Dennis Ross argued in a New York Times op-ed today that it is time to hold the Palestinians accountable for their failure to make peace. At the beginning of his op-ed, Ross recalled a recent conversation he had with a European official sympathetic to the Palestinians. Ross told him that if...

Angered by Palestinian steps to join the International Criminal Court, Israel may seek to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes, according to an Israeli official, The Jerusalem Post reported on January 3. The Israeli official emphasized that Palestinian leaders themselves”ought to fear legal steps” after this action. “Israel is weighing the possibilities...

A joint project between scientists at both the University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University are “crafting radical new approaches” to water technologies, according to a report today in The Chicago Tribune. One project uses a common inkjet printer to apply layers of chemicals to a water filter to repel bacteria...

Groundbreaking new diagnostic technique used on firefighters at Ground Zero identifies dangerous particles inhaled by firefighters, factory workers, dental technicians,and kids with asthma. Microscopic foreign particles in the lungs of firefighters, welders, industrial workers and children cause respiratory problems of great concern to Prof. Elizabeth Fireman of the Institute for Pulmonary...