The Israeli life sciences industry has grown 80 percent in the past decade, and its life-sciences companies raised more than $6.7 billion on NASDAQ during that time, $5 billion of which was raised since 2013. Those are among the findings in the 2016 Israeli Life Sciences Report issued yesterday by...

A delegation of Jordanian sheikhs representing several tribes across Jordanian society met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the president’s residence Wednesday. Members of the Middle East Department, of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also participated in the meeting with the sheikhs. The sheikhs are visiting Israel for five days...

The dean of a school system in the Gaza Strip who was appointed to his post by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to spread classic anti-Semitic libels on official PA television, Palestinian Media Watch reported Tuesday. Imad Hamato, who has long given classes on Islam on PA television, was appointed...

The governors of all 50 U.S. states on Thursday released a statement strongly denouncing boycotts of Israel as “antithetical to our values and the values of our respective states.” Governors United Against BDS, a group organized by the American Jewish Committee, pointed out that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign seeks “to isolate...

The finance ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority met in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Moshe Kahlon and Shukri Bishara discussed good will gestures and economic incentives before U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the region next week. Plans agreed by the two are expected to be submitted to and approved...

As our brain ages, our cognitive abilities naturally decrease and it becomes more difficult to learn new things or devote attention to several things at the same time. Researchers have long been looking for ways to slow down or even reverse this process. Scientists at the University of Bonn in...

Iran is facing “the worst water future of any industrialized nation” due to “bad governance and corruption,” a leading expert on water usage wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Seth Siegel, author of Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World, wrote that the...

The controversy over the possible disclosure of Israeli intelligence by President Donald Trump will affect neither overall U.S.-Israeli relations, nor intelligence cooperation, which remains “solid,” a former official of the Mossad, Israel’s external security agency, told reporters during a conference call Wednesday. Brig. Gen. (ret.) Amnon Sofrin, who headed Mossad’s...

When Israeli engineers at the Israeli Air Force’s (IAF) Depot 22 asked Boeing, the prime contractor for an F-15B that had been severely damaged, if it could rehabilitate the plane by attaching its undamaged front section with the rear section of another damaged plane, Boeing never returned the call. According...

South Korea’s defense minister said that the latest North Korean ballistic missile test shows that Pyongyang’s missile program is developing faster than expected, Reuters reported Tuesday. Han Min-koo, speaking to his nation’s parliament, said that North Korea’s test of the Hwasong-12 rocket was “successful,” and explained that the missile “is considered an...