Druze volunteer medic Ryan Amasha, 27, regularly visits an elderly man in his village of Usfiya, in Israel’s Carmel region. He checks the 80-year-old’s vital signs once a week, takes him out for coffee, and checks in by phone several times a week. Amasha’s connection with the elder was fostered...

Netflix will not release a documentary about the life of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, despite the Nation of Islam leader’s claim that it would air on the streaming platform on Wednesday, The Jerusalem Post reported. “This film will not be released on Netflix. Due to an internal miscommunication, it appeared to...

The United States Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, visited a fire station in the southern city of Sderot on Wednesday to see first-hand how firefighters are battling the ongoing blazes caused by incendiary airborne devices launched from the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported. Friedman thanked the firefighters for...

Russia’s envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev, said on Wednesday that Iranian forces in Syria had retreated 85 kilometers from the border with Israel following efforts by the Jewish State to increase pressure on the Kremlin, Reuters reported. However, an Israeli official deemed the pullback insufficient. “The Iranians withdrew and the...

An Iranian-born writer and activist for women’s rights in her home country wrote that, forced by the regime, “my sister publicly disowned me on prime-time Iranian television,” in an op-ed published Tuesday in The New York Times. Masih Alinejad, a journalist and founder of the My Stealthy Freedom movement, which...

Three life-science giants — Medtronic, GE Healthcare and Change Healthcare – will expand their Israeli R&D centers over the next six years with the help of a ₪120 million ($33 million) grant from the Israel Innovation Authority and Ministry of Economy and Industry. “Expanding these R&D centers will help position...