A five-year-old Syrian girl’s life was saved twice in recent weeks by Israeli doctors: Once when they treated her wounds from a firefight between rival militias, and again when she was diagnosed with cancer. Israel’s Channel 10 reported that the girl received her diagnosis at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital two weeks after she had had...

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have come under heavy criticism over the destruction of ancient church ruins that were discovered in the Gaza Strip last week. The 1,500-year-old ruins were unearthed as workers broke ground for a new shopping mall at Palestine Square in Gaza City, Khaled Abu Toameh reported in The Jerusalem Post....

Israel’s high-tech arena posted confident first-quarter numbers, with over 30 startups raising more than $10 million each in funding rounds from January to March 2016, according to a new Ethosia Human Resources report. $869.3 million in investments were totaled in the first quarter. Leading the group were cyber security analytics company Skybox Security...

Tests show that an Israeli-developed therapy is effective in fighting prostate cancer, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The treatment, called Tookad Soluble, was developed by professors Yoram Salomon and Avigdor Scherzat of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. It uses principles of photosynthesis to identify and then kill cancer cells,...

Last month, while visiting refugee camps in southern Algeria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Morocco’s 1975 annexation of Western Sahara as “occupation.” In doing so, he broke an unspoken UN rule. Allegations of occupation are not used when describing China’s relationship with Tibet, nor Russia’s relationship with Ukraine, nor...

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s candidate for mayor of London, said that the level of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is “unacceptable” and a “badge of shame,” The Telegraph reported on Wednesday. “It is unacceptable for 2016 that there is anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. It is with sorrow that I wear...