Israeli billionaire Marius Nacht is banking on Israeli bio-tech with a $2.8 million investment into BiondVax Pharmaceuticals, a clinical phase company developing a universal flu vaccine. “This investment is a vote of confidence in BiondVax and its universal influenza vaccine candidate. We are now better positioned to complete our development...

American lawmakers and the incoming Trump administration can take five steps to counter the deleterious effects of United Nations Security Council resolution 2334, which passed late last month despite Israeli opposition, a leading international law expert wrote Monday in The Washington Post. Eugene Kontorovich, a law professor at Northwestern University...

Hamas released videos on Saturday that mocked a deceased Israeli Defense Force soldier whose body the terrorist group has held since 2014. In the first video, the face of Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul is superimposed on an actor, who is bound and sits cowering in front of a birthday cake with three...

Fatah, the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, celebrated the 52nd anniversary of its first attack against Israel last week in a series of Facebook posts glorifying Palestinian terrorists. The party’s official Facebook page commemorated the January 1, 1965 attack by “parading some of the movement’s role models, among them several...

Iran has received more than $10 billion in sanctions relief in cash and gold since reaching an interim nuclear deal with world powers in November 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. These payments, which came from unfrozen assets in numerous countries, were favored by Iran as they offered “quick access to its...

In its end of year report, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas claimed that it killed 17 Israelis and wounded 437 more during 2016. The first months of 2016 were marked by a wave Palestinian terrorism against Israelis, often by “lone wolf” attackers, which began in September 2015. According to Israel’s Magen David Adom, 42...

One of the more iconic and sobering elements of Israeli reality were the gas masks distributed on the street or at post offices to every citizen after Saddam Hussein fired SCUD missiles at Israel during the 1991 Gulf War. They continued to be distributed until early 2014, when the Israeli...

The former head of Israel’s military intelligence on Monday presented the country’s president with an annual security assessment, which highlights Hezbollah as the country’s most potent threat. Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin presented President Reuven Rivlin with the strategic assessment for 2016 – 2017 on behalf of the Institute for...

About 1,000 farmers in Israel, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Kenya and Thailand are reporting up to 40 percent reduced use of pesticides and improved fieldworker efficiency due to a crowdsourcing platform called AgriTask. It’s like a smart one-stop shop for agricultural technologies and best-practices data. Developed by Israeli startup ScanTask in...

Power Outrage Last Friday afternoon, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334, which criticized Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. The resolution passed 14-0; the United States could have vetoed the resolution, but instead chose to abstain. The negative effects of the resolution will likely be felt for...