In a series of rebuffs to the United States’ outreach, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Sunday that America is Iran’s “main enemy,” and went on to mock President Barack Obama’s hopeful Nowruz holiday message from earlier this year. Khamenei asserted in a meeting with leaders of the terrorist...

The distinct languages spoken by more than 800 native tribes in Papua New Guinea are fast disappearing—and taking their family stories with them into oblivion. In response, employees of MyHeritage, an Israeli genealogical website, led a mission this past March to record and preserve those stories for future generations. Founded in 2003, MyHeritage...

An Austrian banking giant has terminated the account of an anti-Israel group involved in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. Erste Group Bank was first revealed to be hosting an account held by BDS Austria in March. In a statement on its website, BDS Austria claimed that its bank...

Despite pledging to donor nations that it would cease paying salaries to jailed terrorists, the Palestinian Authority has continued to so, the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch charged in a report last week. After repeated complaints by the United States and European countries that its donations to the Palestinian Authority were being...

Iran’s parliament passed a law Tuesday to provide citizenship for families of foreigners who died fighting for Iran, state media reported Monday. The bill grants Iranian citizenship to “wives, children, and parents of foreign fighters who were killed on a mission for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988 and afterwards.” Some...

Security footage recovered from a destroyed pediatric hospital in Aleppo shows the moment the facility was shelled by the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar-al Assad. The video, originally aired by Britain’s Channel 4, shows hospital staff and patients walking in the corridors of al-Quds hospital on Wednesday evening. The city’s last pediatrician, Dr. Mohammed...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum challenged Iranian Foreign Minister’s Mohammad Javad Zarif’s claim that his government has nothing to do with a Holocaust cartoon contest scheduled to take place in Tehran later this month. Zarif asserted that the contest was neither “controlled” nor “endorsed” by the Iranian government in an interview with The New Yorker last week....

In March, 200 participants in the 16th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound in Tel Aviv saw a livestreamed medical procedure to cure a woman’s essential tremor without incisions or anesthesia. Neurology and radiology experts at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa used the Exablate Neuro system developed in Israel by...

Israeli-founded Desalitech — which provides high-efficiency water treatment for industrial, agricultural and wastewater reuse and concentration applications – has won a top prize at the 2016 Global Water Awards. Judges at the prestigious contest — held at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, UAE — chose Desalitech as the Breakthrough Water Technology...

JNS.org – “It is generally admitted that antisemitism is on the increase, that it has been greatly exacerbated by the war, and that humane and enlightened people are not immune to it. It does not take violent forms (English people are almost invariably gentle and law-abiding), but it is ill-natured...