An Israeli legal rights group has filed a lawsuit in Illinois to block Boeing’s pending $16.6 billion jet sale to Iran, the Associated Press reported Friday. Shurat HaDin–Israel Law Center, an independent non-profit headed by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, said that it was seeking a lien against Boeing until Tehran pays off billions of dollars in damages to American victims...

Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged his organization’s bias against Israel on Friday, saying the “disproportionate” fixation ultimately also hurts the Palestinians. “Over the last decade I have argued that we cannot have a bias against Israel at the UN,” Ban said in an address to the UN Security Council. “Decades...

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and Shiite militias fighting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been accused of committing massacres as civilians and rebel fighters were being evacuated from eastern Aleppo, Voice of American reported Friday. According to leaders of the Syrian opposition, Shiite militiamen commanded by Iran stopped a convoy carrying some 800...

The Israeli company Emefcy has developed a low cost and energy efficient wastewater treatment system that has been deployed globally, from Ethiopia to the Virgin Island of St. Thomas. The company’s award-winning membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) reduces energy consumption by up to 90 percent and sludge yield by half compared...

The Catastrophe of Aleppo Two major editorials on Thursday called attention to Iran’s role in the destruction of the last rebel stronghold in Aleppo, Syria. The New York Times observed that “Hezbollah, backed by Iran with arms and money, has … been a vital asset for the Assad regime, reportedly deploying...

A Mumbai-based pharmaceutical giant, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing deal to further develop a novel treatment for osteoarthritis pain created by Tel Aviv’s Moebius Medical. The MM-II injection lubricates arthritic knee joints, thereby reducing friction and pain due to mild-to-moderate osteoarthritis. It is based on patent-protected technology licensed...