A bipartisan bill to help Holocaust survivors and their families recover artwork looted by the Nazis has been introduced in the Senate. The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016 was introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R – Texas), and co-sponsored by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) Richard Blumenthal (D – Conn.) and...

Taylor Force, the American veteran who was killed last month by a Palestinian in a terror attack in Jaffa, was honored in a memorial service on Thursday. The memorial was organized by The Israel Project, which publishes The Tower, and the Israeli Scouts Movement. Force was an Eagle Scout and served...

The son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas owned nearly $1 million of shares in a company with deep ties to multiple sectors of the Palestinian economy, Haaretz reported Thursday. The newspaper based its reporting on the “Panama Papers,” the massive leak of documents belonging to the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which...

Oberlin College’s announcement last week of a new interim vice president and dean of students has attracted further controversy as the school works to address what some community members describe as a hostile campus environment towards Jewish students and freedom of inquiry and expression. Meredith Raimondo, who joined Oberlin’s Department of Comparative...

A five-year-old Syrian girl’s life was saved twice in recent weeks by Israeli doctors: Once when they treated her wounds from a firefight between rival militias, and again when she was diagnosed with cancer. Israel’s Channel 10 reported that the girl received her diagnosis at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital two weeks after she had had...

Zuhair Bahloul, a member of the Knesset from the Labor Party, reignited an old controversy this week, claiming that Palestinians who attack Israeli soldiers are not terrorists. “Those who attack families in their sleep cannot be considered terrorists if they attack an army base,” maintained Bahloul on Army Radio. Alluding to...

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have come under heavy criticism over the destruction of ancient church ruins that were discovered in the Gaza Strip last week. The 1,500-year-old ruins were unearthed as workers broke ground for a new shopping mall at Palestine Square in Gaza City, Khaled Abu Toameh reported in The Jerusalem Post....

Israel’s high-tech arena posted confident first-quarter numbers, with over 30 startups raising more than $10 million each in funding rounds from January to March 2016, according to a new Ethosia Human Resources report. $869.3 million in investments were totaled in the first quarter. Leading the group were cyber security analytics company Skybox Security...

Tests show that an Israeli-developed therapy is effective in fighting prostate cancer, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The treatment, called Tookad Soluble, was developed by professors Yoram Salomon and Avigdor Scherzat of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. It uses principles of photosynthesis to identify and then kill cancer cells,...

Last month, while visiting refugee camps in southern Algeria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Morocco’s 1975 annexation of Western Sahara as “occupation.” In doing so, he broke an unspoken UN rule. Allegations of occupation are not used when describing China’s relationship with Tibet, nor Russia’s relationship with Ukraine, nor...