Arab countries put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to discourage it from requesting recognition of independence from the United Nations Security Council, a Palestinian official revealed on October 19. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced last month he would appeal to the U.N. General Assembly and then to the Security...

Israeli-made television formats are once again a hot ticket at MIPCOM, the annual entertainment and TV market held in Cannes every October. Turkey, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden and Spain have all signed deals for new original Israeli game shows and reality formats. Armoza has signed four deals for their new...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday openly mocked boasts still being floated by top figures from the Palestinian Hamas faction – the most significant rival to his own Fatah faction – to the effect that the terror group had emerged victorious from its confrontations with Israel over the...

On Thursday, senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzook announced that the group was poised to resume indirect ceasefire negotiations with Israel at the end of October. Marzook noted that while talks would likely touch on the topic of conducting a prisoner exchange for the remains of Israeli soldiers, it is...

Working in the computational biology laboratory of Prof. Eytan Ruppin at Tel Aviv University’s Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Yizhak and colleagues at Bar-Ilan University have developed a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be “turned off” to create the same anti-aging effect as calorie restriction. Their findings were...

An article yesterday in BloombergBusinessweek outlined Israeli expectations that the recently discovered Tamar and Leviathan natural gas fields will pay off politically as well as economically. “There are now extraordinary opportunities for Israel based on energy policy, both economically and diplomatically,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon. “This is...