Israel’s ambassador was elected on Wednesday to serve as vice president of the United Nations’ General Assembly, a year after being elected to head a permanent committee at the UN for the first time. Ambassador Danny Danon will serve as vice president of the General Assembly when the UN convenes its next session...

The world must be upside down when liberal media outlets celebrate Linda Sarsour as a courageous Muslim feminist fighting against the evil forces of the far-right. “Feminist activist Linda Sarsour has become one of the far right’s favorite targets,” Newsweek tweeted on Saturday. The same week, The New York Times...

Lebanese authorities banned the critically-acclaimed movie “Wonder Woman” on Wednesday, hours before it was set to premier in Beirut, on account of its Israeli star Gal Gadot. Grand Cinema, a chain that had planned to screen the movie in theaters across the country, cancelled the opening and began removing promotional material following the...

NewStem, a startup based in Jerusalem, is developing a novel diagnostic kit for predicting resistance to chemotherapy treatments. The technology is based on the pioneering research of Prof. Nissim Benvenisty of the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research  at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The problem to be...

Some five million Americans have a hernia, a protrusion of an organ or tissue through a weak spot in the abdomen or groin, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Traditionally, open hernia-repair surgery involved stitching a mesh patch, or surrounding tissue, in place over the weak tissue. Today,...

German car maker Porsche announced Thursday that it would invest tens of millions of euros in Israeli smart car start-ups through the Magma and Grove Venture capital fund, Globes reported. With 600 million U.S. dollars under management, the capital fund is one of the biggest of its kind in Israel...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a waiver postponing for six months any plan to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move mandated by U.S. law. “While President Donald J. Trump signed the waiver under the Jerusalem Embassy Act and delayed moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel...

Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera found itself embroiled in controversy on Wednesday after its English-language Twitter account tweeted an anti-Semitic cartoon to promote a story about climate change. Al Jazeera later deleted the tweet, but not before social media users captured the original content in a screenshot, The Forward reported. “He,...

The head of the United Nations told leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the Jewish organization announced in a press release on Tuesday. Speaking at his offices at the UN headquarters in New York, Secretary-General António Guterres discussed the UN’s role in countering growing anti-Semitism...

Denmark’s foreign minister has reportedly ordered a comprehensive review of his government’s funding to Palestinian organizations suspected of promoting boycotts and inciting violence against Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “We must be sure that Danish assistance contributes in a positive way to the advancement of human rights in the...