On a recent Wednesday morning, volunteer emergency medical technician Sanaa Mahameed was the first responder on the scene as fire and rescue personnel extricated two injured people from their vehicles following a car crash. Unfortunately, motor vehicle accidents aren’t a rare occurrence. What was unusual about this scene is that...

Researchers at University of Haifa have pieced together a calendar that is believed to be the next-to-last unpublished text among the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The 364-day calendar was pieced together from some 60 parchment fragments, some measuring smaller than one square centimeter. Unlike the standard Jewish...

The groups who boycotted Scarlett Johansson’s Women’s March speech in Los Angeles due to her position as spokesperson for SodaStream, an Israeli company that employs both Jews and Arabs, was both “clarifying & contemptible,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League said on Twitter Sunday. It's clarifying & contemptible that some...

United States Vice President Mike Pence announced on Monday that the United States will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem before the end of 2019, ahead of schedule, honoring a bipartisan commitment made over 20 years ago, enshrined in the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995. The Trump...

When Federica Mogherini, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs  finally spoke up about the protests that have recently roiled Iran, she didn’t speak up for freedom and demand that the government  respect the rights of the protesters, but rather, she offered a non-judgmental “we expect all concerned to refrain from...

Is a cure for hemophilia on the horizon? American biotechnology company BioMarin aims to find out with the help of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel. BioMarin has chosen Sheba to take part in the next phase of international trials for what’s being touted as a “magic bullet” cure...