MidEast

Israel will be the fifth country to host the final rounds of the world’s biggest student-run cybersecurity competition, Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), on November 16 and 17 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva. CSAW was founded 14 years ago by the New York University Tandon School of...

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After threatening to back out of the 2015 nuclear deal “within hours” if faced with new American sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani added that if Tehran restarted its nuclear program, it would be “far more advanced” than it was before nuclear negotiations began in 2013. The New York Times asserted on Tuesday that with a more advanced...

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Spanish authorities continue their investigation into the car-ramming terrorist attack that killed 14 people in Barcelona on Thursday and two related events, a gas explosion in a house in Alcanar and a car attack in Cambrils, as the nation’s prime minister characterized the attack, claimed by ISIS, as “jihadist terrorism.” Based...

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of State released its annual report on religious freedom in the world, which shows persistent levels of deep-rooted anti-Semitism in the Middle East, including in two neighboring Arab countries Israel has peace treaties with. The main sources of persecution vary among countries with Iran spearheading...

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A Palestinian terrorist who was convicted in a 1969 bombing that left two Hebrew University students dead was stripped of her citizenship at a court hearing Thursday and will be deported. In April, Rasmeah Odeh admitted to lying about her past terrorist activity on her citizenship application as part of an...

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Medical history was made at Emek Medical Center in Afula this week when semi-liquid live human bone tissue grown in a lab from a 40-year-old patient’s own fat cells was transplanted into the patient’s arm by injection. The patient had suffered significant bone loss in his arm as the result...

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