In 2009, at the beginning of his first term in office, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would be seeking to “directly engage” with Iran. Nonetheless, Obama acknowledged that Iran’s “actions over many years now have been unhelpful when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity both in the region and...

A new Israeli study says obesity can play a major role in triggering and prolonging autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s Disease and multiple sclerosis (MS), in which the immune system attacks its own body rather than predatory invaders. A study published recently in Autoimmunity Reviews by Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research...

On Wednesday, The Times of Israel reported on a dilemma facing Israeli emergency room doctors. On October 22, after he ran into a crowd of pedestrians at a light rail stop in Jerusalem, killing two people (including a 3-month-old baby) and injuring several more, Abdelrahman al-Shaludi was shot by police...

Good news for patients with acute chest pains: The Israeli company BSP, which develops and produces advanced tools for non-invasive diagnosis of heart disease, recently won approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell its HyperQ Rest System. The HyperQ Rest System aids in the diagnosis...

Hezbollah is working to recruit Christian, Druze, and Sunni youths for a possible future confrontation with Israel, the Lebanese newspaper al-Nahar reported (Arabic link) today. The new enlistment campaign is using the slogan “Our fate is one and we must fight together” in order to attract young fighters. The Shiite terror...

Monday marked one of the bloodiest days in Israel in recent months, with the stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, the car attack and stabbing at Alon Shvut, and more violent incidents in Kafr Kana and other Arab communities in Israel. Sergeant Almog Shiloni, 20, from Modi’in, killed in Tel Aviv,...