It’s not a cure, but a new therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is being hailed as a breakthrough that can extend the life expectancy of those suffering from ALS. Developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), the therapy may come...

A leading activist in Florida denounced the campaign to boycott an international LGBTQ film festival that took place in Tel Aviv last week, calling on the “LGBTQ and progressive ally communities” to take a stand “against censoring, and against anti-semitism,” in an op-ed published Saturday in The Miami Herald. James Moon,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met personally with ten African heads of state in Liberia, where he was the first non-African to deliver the keynote speech at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summit. Among the leaders Netanyahu met were Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita....

The leader of the band Radiohead, which is scheduled to make its ninth trip to Israel next month, blasted proponents of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as “offensive” and “patronizing in the extreme” in an interview published Friday in Rolling Stone magazine. “I’ll be totally honest with you: this has been...

Nevada on Friday became the 20th state to adopt legislation prohibiting state entities from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. A day after Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 26 into law, the Kansas state senate passed similar legislation by a three to one margin. Christians United for Israel, which...

Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have severed diplomatic and transport links with Qatar as a result of its support for Islamist groups, deepening the split between Gulf nations. Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia in the announcement that involves withdrawing all diplomatic staff...

Next Year in Jerusalem? President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a waiver delaying for six months any plan to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While the Jerusalem Embassy Act requiring the relocation was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of Congress in 1995, all three of Trump’s predecessors have availed themselves of a...

The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN body responsible for Palestinian refugees, has launched a new global fundraising campaign using a photograph of a child in war-torn Syria, giving would-be donors the false impression that the scene of destruction is in the Gaza Strip. The image of a young Syrian girl...

Iran has agreed to resume its financial support for the terrorist organization Hamas, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Tuesday. The deal to restore Hamas’s funding came after top Hamas officials recently met in Lebanon with senior members of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. Ismail...

Israel’s Finance Minister met the Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister in Ramallah on Wednesday to discuss how to advance economic cooperation. Moshe Kahlon met Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to discuss ways to implement the economic development plans in the West Bank that were approved by the Israeli security cabinet ahead...