BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics of Petah Tikva is recruiting American patients for a Phase 3 clinical study of its NurOwn stem-cell treatment intended to halt progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The announcement was made in a patient webinar last week. The NurOwn platform grew out of a technique developed at Tel Aviv University...

In territory that Hezbollah’s forces captured in northeastern Lebanon last week, “nowhere was there any evidence of the Lebanese state,” correspondents for The Washington Post reported on Saturday. Earlier that day, the journalists participated in a tour organized by the Iranian proxy in response to recent comments by President Donald Trump, who denounced Hezbollah...

A Hezbollah commander said that the Iranian proxy group plans to bring its war against Israel to “the Galilee someday soon,” Buzzfeed News reported Sunday. The outlet reported on Iran’s multinational network of tens of thousands of highly trained and experienced combatants from across the Middle East, which Tehran uses to...

A United States Navy helicopter fired flares on Friday at Iranian vessels that approached a group of American ships “at a high rate of speed,” in the latest Persian Gulf encounter between U.S. and Iranian forces. The helicopter, which was attached to the USS Nimitz and an accompanying warship, was patrolling...

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed legislation on Thursday prohibiting the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. The bipartisan bill, which passed North Carolina’s House of Representatives by a vote of 96-19 and Senate by a vote of 45-3 last month, also requires the state to divest...

Palestinians officials have confirmed that security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has resumed in a gradual manner. The decision was made during a meeting between PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Commander of the General Intelligence Service Maj. Gen. Majed Faraj, a high-ranking Palestinian security official told Israel...

Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani is soon to open the latest branch of his Tel Aviv falafel joint, Miznon, in Melbourne, Australia. Miznon has already seen huge success in its Paris and Vienna locations and also will open in Manhattan’s Chelsea Market this fall. Miznon (Hebrew for “buffet” or “canteen”)...

Hezbollah: A Major Threat to Homeland Security The Iranian proxy group Hezbollah continues to be a major force for instability in the Middle East and poses a direct threat to the United States, domestically and abroad. Nicholas J. Rasmussen, head of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, recently assessed that Hezbollah has developed into...

The generous monthly salary that Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed will receive from the Palestinian Authority as a reward for his murder of the Salomon family could be a powerful incentive to a pending U.S. legislative bill that would cut aid to the PA for sponsoring terrorism. Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president...

Iran’s launch of a rocket carrying a satellite into space on Thursday, in apparent violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution, suffered a “catastrophic failure” shortly after takeoff, United States officials told Fox News on Friday. The two officials said that the Simorgh rocket likely exploded before it reached...