An Israeli artificial bone product made from coral has received approval to be sold in Europe for dental and orthopedic procedures. CoreBone grows its corals in a closed system using patented technology to provide bioactivity and eliminate biological contamination. The corals are bred in a closed farm in the Arava desert,...

Two members of the terrorist group Hamas were killed after the tunnel they were in collapsed about 500 yards from the Israeli border, Palestinian officials said Wednesday. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry identified the two men as Ismail Shmali and Rami al-Areir, who were both in their 20s. A third man was reported...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged his country’s recent airstrikes against Syrian targets, saying in an address to European Union ambassadors on Wednesday that the strikes were meant to prevent Hezbollah from receiving “advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction.” Though it is unusual for an Israeli government official...

The rate of academic collaboration between American and Israeli professors has dramatically increased in the last ten years despite organized efforts on college campuses to boycott Israeli academics a new study (.pdf) has shown. In 2006, there were 3,439 articles in academic journals whose authors included one researcher from an institution in each country, while...

A number of Democratic senators, including some who supported the nuclear deal with Iran, are calling for the release of documents related to the deal that have been stored in classified facilities despite not actually being classified. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that the Obama administration placed the documents in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information...

An official TV channel of the Palestinian Authority repeatedly broadcast a song calling for violence against Israel last week, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday. The broadcast of the song “Long Live Fatah Men” occurred during Fatah’s party conference, from November 29 to December 4. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

A growing number of Arab Israelis are signing up to serve in the Israeli army, Reuters reported Tuesday. “I’m from this country and I love the country and I want to contribute,” explained Sgt. Yusef Salutta, a 20-year-old Arab from the north of Israel who is in the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion. “Everyone should enlist,...

Researchers from around the world gathered recently in Israel for the inauguration of the Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC), a first-of-its kind hub for global cancer research, aimed at developing new treatments and inventing cutting-edge early stage diagnostic technologies. “Conquering cancer is one of the global community’s most pressing challenges,...

President-elect Donald Trump will have to avoid “making the same assumptions and often the same mistakes” that prior administrations from both parties have made since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, wrote Monday in Politico. According to him, the...

The Israel Defense Forces held a large-scale drill near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, improving preparedness for possible cross-border terrorist attacks from the coastal enclave. The drill, which was led by the military’s Gaza division and included the evacuation of an Israeli school near the Gaza border, tested how the army would respond to terrorist infiltrators...