The growing ties between Israel and the Shiite-majority country of Azerbaijan are a praiseworthy example of “Muslims and Jews working together to secure a better future for both of us,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to the Central Asian nation on Tuesday. Netanyahu and Azerbaijani President Ilham...

Tiny “barcodes” made of synthetic DNA can help determine the suitability of specific anticancer drugs to a specific patient before treatment even begins, according to an Israeli study recently published in Nature Communications. The new diagnostic technology was developed by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers, led by Assistant Prof. Avi...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered top government officials to take actions that could violate last year’s nuclear deal, Reuters reported Tuesday. The orders, which can be found on Rouhani’s presidential website, instructed Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Ali Akbar Salehi to: “1. Plan for designing and manufacturing nuclear engine to...

A German bank has closed the account of a group involved in the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which has “the goal of destabilizing the State of Israel and is not compatible with the principles of the [b]ank,” The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. “The positions of the BDS campaign, in content...

Syrian opposition groups reached a deal with representatives of Russia and Turkey on Tuesday to evacuate the last pockets of eastern Aleppo that they control, The New York Times reported. The agreement came as the Syrian army and allied forces seemed poised to capture nearly all of Aleppo after completing...

Turkey’s new ambassador to Israel officially presented his credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Monday, in a culmination of the two countries’ diplomatic reconciliation after a five-year freeze. “This is a new beginning in our bilateral relations and in our joint efforts, in this region in which we have close...

Israel’s emergency medical service this week hosted doctors, nurses, paramedics and EMTs from around the globe at a conference focusing on mass medical emergencies. “This is not the first time we have held this type of conference and we continue to recognize the importance of spreading our knowledge in responding...

Two F-35 stealth fighter jets arrived in Israel on Monday, the first of 52 that it has agreed to purchase in the coming years. The planes arrived at the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev Desert after a stopover in Italy and a six-hour rain delay. Among the dignitaries...

Hezbollah has been “instrumental” in keeping Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in power, a report on the Iranian propaganda network PressTV asserted Friday. “Hezbollah has of course given many martyrs to protect Syria and Hezbollah has been very instrumental, even before Russia got involved into equation,” commentator Shabbir Hassanally told the...

The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas celebrated its 29th anniversary last week by parading its heavily-armed fighters next to dozens of children with machine guns, The Sun reported Sunday. “The Gaza-based extremist group proudly showed off ‘the future of Hamas’ – in a worrying echo of ISIS’s ‘cubs of the caliphate,'” the British...