MidEast

Israeli researchers may have discovered a new way to treat AIDS with a drug that dramatically reduces the HIV viral load of affected patients, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday, citing Israeli media. The new drug, called Gammora, was injected into test tubes containing the blood of ten HIV carriers, and was...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first holder of his office to visit Australia, Singapore, and Kazakhstan during a series of trips over the next three months, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. He is also slated to visit Azerbaijan, which he toured briefly as prime minister...

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A previously overlooked inscription in an ancient mosque near the city of Hebron has shed light on how, up to the mid-20th century, the Muslim world associated Jerusalem’s Temple Mount with the two Jewish sanctuaries that once stood there — a historical reality that has since been erased from the Palestinian narrative in...

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The denial of the historical Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in last week’s “deplorable” UNESCO resolution is the “opposite of constructive and [deserves] only contempt,” The Boston Globe‘s editors asserted on Tuesday. The Arab-sponsored resolution, which the editors called a “blatant historical fabrication,” had “pointedly ignored Judaism’s connection to the Temple Mount,” even...

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The Israeli voluntary emergency response group United Hatzalah has joined a multi-organization mission to bring disaster and medical relief to Haiti following the destruction left on the island by Hurricane Matthew earlier this month. The mission — led by Jet911, a New York City-based medical transport company — departed from New York...

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American and coalition forces have intercepted five Iranian arms shipments to Houthi rebels in Yemen since April 2015, the commander of the United States Fifth Fleet announced last week. Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan said that the weaponry included thousands of AK-47 automatic rifles, anti-tank missiles, and sniper rifles, CNN reported on Saturday. The U.S. Navy...

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