Nearly everyone knows about ReWalk, the revolutionary robotic exoskeleton invented in Israel that allows paraplegics to stand, walk, and even navigate steps and run marathons. Ironically, ReWalk inventor Amit Goffer cannot use his own device because he is a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down following an accident in 1997. But...

Egyptian judoka Islam el-Shahaby was reprimanded and sent home from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after he refused to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent at the end of their match, Reuters reported on Monday. El-Shahaby, who was sent back by Egypt’s national team, was also criticized by the International Olympic Committee for his failure to...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked Arab members of the Israeli Knesset to help advance a reconciliation deal between his Fatah party and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, Israel Radio reported on Sunday. Abbas made the suggestion at a meeting with leaders from Israel’s Arab sector, including parliamentarians, in Ramallah on Saturday. Fatah and Hamas...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas announced that one of its operatives was electrocuted to death while working on a tunnel in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Israel Army Radio reported. The news comes as residents of Gaza who seek to rebuild their homes face difficulty in securing the necessary electricity and other resources, which...

A video released last week of a man convicted of smuggling military equipment to Iran has shed new light on the activities of the Iranian national and six Iranian-Americans who were released by the U.S. as part of a deal to free several of its citizens from Iranian captivity, ABC News reported on Friday....

An Israeli father and son have developed an app that could help you achieve healthier skin without spending a fortune on acne treatment products and doctor appointments. MDacne was the idea of dermatologist Dr. Yoram Harth, who specializes in treating pimples. Together with his son Oded, a graduate of the IDF’s...

The West African nation of Togo is taking the lead in organizing an Israeli-African “security and development” summit, which it offered to host in its capital next year, The Jerusalem Post reported on Friday. News of the summit first emerged after Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...

The international community must intervene in Syria and prevent the regime of Bashar al-Assad from committing more war crimes, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a statement Thursday. Unless the international community intervenes to “protect civilians from mass atrocities and ensures their access to outside humanitarian assistance,” the residents of eastern Aleppo “could face annihilation”...

A prominent Iranian ayatollah condemned the state-sponsored executions of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 as “the biggest crime in the Islamic Republic,” according to an audio recording recently released by his family, The Guardian reported on Thursday. The publication of the recording has prompted survivors and relatives of those killed...

The announcement last week by Israeli authorities that the top Gaza official of the Christian charity World Vision was being charged with funneling aid money to the terrorist group Hamas has highlighted the need for NGOs operating in terror-controlled areas to have “transparency, accountability and detailed guidelines,” Gerald Steinberg argued in a Wall Street...