Half a million children are living under siege across Syria, with 100,000 trapped by government forces in eastern Aleppo alone, the United Nations Children’s Fund announced on Sunday. The children live in sixteen separate besieged areas across the embattled country, UNICEF said. “For millions of human beings in Syria, life has become an endless...

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have captured a key section of rebel-held Aleppo with the backing of Russia, Iran, and the terrorist group Hezbollah, the Associated Press reported Monday. Syrian forces now control some 40 percent of the rebel-held eastern portion of the city, while Syrian and allied troops have...

A German bank that caters to companies involved in social issues is closing the account of an anti-Israel group with alleged terror ties, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday for The Jerusalem Post. The Bank für Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) informed Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East that it...

Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world’s largest generic medicines producer, and Israeli startup Syqe Medical have signed a distribution and cooperation agreement to market medical cannabis for pain management with Syqe’s revolutionary selective-dose pharmaceutical-grade medicinal plants inhaler in Israel. Inhalation is considered the most efficient way of administering medical marijuana...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed the 39th anniversary of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic trip to Israel, contrasting it with the intransigence displayed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas “refuses to come to direct negotiations without preconditions, is also continuing to incite his people regarding the idea...

Huge Wildfires Bring Out Best in Israel’s Friends, Worst in Enemies Wildfires that have threatened large portions of Israel continued to burn but were largely under control by Saturday. The more than 60,000 residents of Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, who had been evacuated from their homes were cleared to return to...

Russian and Hezbollah officials have met in the Syrian city of Aleppo to coordinate movements on the ground, the Lebanese website al-Akhbar reported on Thursday. The website, which is considered to be supportive of Hezbollah, said that Russian officials instigated the meeting, the first of its kind, in order to establish “continual”...

As 2.4 billion people face severe water shortages in the world, desalination and water-purification technologies are in hot demand – many of them invented in Israel, a global leader in desalination. The most common method of reverse osmosis using membranes is costly, energy-intensive, high-maintenance, and environmentally problematic. It is best...

The Israeli Innovation Authority recently signed an R&D cooperation agreement with its Chilean counterpart, which aims to connect startups, technology, and research in a variety of fields. Chile is among the leaders in entrepreneurship and technology in the Pacific Alliance (Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Costa Rica), which has a joint GDP of $3 trillion...

As Israel struggled to put out the hundreds wildfires that rampaged across the country on Thursday, many of which were started by terror arsonists, both domestic and foreign support poured in to help battle the blazes and evacuate residents. At the same time, expressions of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate spread across the internet....