The United States said that it will “unquestionably” veto a Kuwaiti-backed Security Council resolution that would ask the United Nations to recommend actions to be taken to provide “international protection” for the civilian population of Gaza, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The Kuwaiti resolution is expected to come up for...

A German domestic intelligence agency has deemed the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel as a “new variation of antisemitism” in a newly released report. This is believed to be the first instance of a German intelligence service classifying the BDS movement as anti-Semitic and a security threat,...

Israeli researchers have developed a nanotechnology that replaces the surgical scalpel with an “enzymatic blade.” The novel technology is based on enzymes – biological molecules the body uses to repair itself — as well as nanoparticles for achieving a targeted therapeutic profile. In an article published recently in ACS Nano,...

Switzerland’s new foreign minister has once again criticized the United Nations agency in charge of Palestinian refugees, saying that UNRWA has become “part of the problem” in the Middle East, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Two weeks ago, Ignazio Cassis said that UNRWA hindered the prospects of peace in the...

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley blasted the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday for failing to agree on a statement condemning Hamas for its rocket attacks on Israel earlier this week, calling such a condemnation a “no-brainer.” She added, “Apparently, some Council members did not think Hamas...

Leading Russian and Indian oil companies will cut links with the Islamic Republic of Iran amid threats of United States sanctions following the withdrawal from the JCPOA, as the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran is known, Radio Free Europe reported Thursday. Lukoil, Russia’s second biggest oil producer, announced on Tuesday...

The Teamsters, one of the largest labor unions in the United States and the world, expressed solidarity with Iranian truckers, currently striking against the government. In a letter faxed on Wednesday to Abolfazl Mehrabadi, the deputy director of the Iranian interests section, located in the Pakistani Embassy, the General President...

Israeli scientists have developed an integrated system of wearable monitors that passively detect and transmit vital signs as early markers for disease. Such wearables aren’t unique, but this system is unprecedented because it’s powered by energy from the wearer’s movements and body heat, and can fix its own tears or...

Somewhere in the middle of the movie Wish you Weren’t Here, Ian Halperin’s devastating critique of Roger Waters and the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz noted that Waters not only targets Israel, but also uses blatantly anti-Semitic imagery, and concludes that Waters...

After firing more than 110 rockets and mortars into Israel over two days, Gaza-based terror groups have apparently agreed to a ceasefire The New York Times reported Wednesday. Hamas, the terrorist group that exercises complete military and political control over Gaza, announced that it had returned to the Egyptian-brokered understandings...