Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed a Palestinian who attempted to kill an Israeli soldier with her car as a “martyr.” “We see in her a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with her blood,” Abbas wrote in a letter to the parents of Amani Husni Sabatin, who...

The Israeli nanotech company Melodea won the Nanotechnology Innovation of the Year Award at the recent NanoIsrael 2016 conference in Tel Aviv. Melodea has developed a cost-effective proprietary technology to extract nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC) from wood pulp and other side streams of the paper industry. Considered a green and safe alternative to fossil...

The four remaining Republican candidates for President laid out their support for Israel during a debate Thursday night. The discussion moved towards Israel when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) criticized Donald Trump for saying that he would be “neutral” between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and for not promising to scrap...

[Update March 16: A similar letter now appears in the Oberlin review, this time with two significant differences: First, the organization that was originally described as connected to it, but apparently disavowed it as well, was not listed as Oberlin JVP but rather Students for a Free Palestine (SFP). Second, it lists the...

At least six residents of Gaza are trapped after a smuggling tunnel collapsed Thursday. This is the sixth reported tunnel collapse since January. A local defense official told the AFP news agency that the tunnel, which went from Rafah under the Egyptian border, was a “trade tunnel.” Egyptian authorities have been flooding the tunnels in an...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected a peace initiative proposed by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds reported. The deal included a Palestinian capital in eastern Jerusalem and a moratorium on West Bank construction in exchange for recognizing Israel as a Jewish state and relinquishing...