Militants from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas are fighting alongside the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula, while ISIS fighters are continuing to receive treatment in Gaza hospitals, a senior IDF official told Palestinian media. Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, specifically cited a Salafi militant named Mahmoud...

Guinness World Records has confirmed that Israel Kristal, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who now lives in Haifa, is now the world’s oldest living man. “I don’t know the secret for long life,” Kristal said upon receiving his new title. “I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never know...

Campaigns to boycott Israel are a strong predictor of anti-Semitism on college campuses, a new study has determined. The AMCHA Initiative, which focuses on campus anti-Semitism, studied more than 100 American universities, both public and private, with large Jewish undergraduate populations. The report, which incorporated media and eyewitness reports of anti-Semitism, found significant statistical correlations between...

The latest wave of terror in Israel may not be conducted by “lone wolves,” as is commonly believed, but guided by the hidden hand of Hamas, a leading terror researcher has reported. Shaul Bartal of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies wrote that obscuring the genesis and motivations of such attacks...

A tunnel near the Israeli border in eastern Gaza caved in on Monday, killing a Hamas commander who was working inside, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. Hamas officials identified the man as Al-Salam Al-Batniji, 36, and described the collapse of the underground passageway, which is located in the Shujaiyyeh neighborhood, as a “work...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned a Sunday car bombing in the Turkish capital that left at least 34 people dead, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the large-scale terrorist attack in Ankara in which innocent citizens lost their lives and many dozens were injured,” read...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged his nation to engage with every country in the world except for the United States and Israel, The Independent reported on Saturday. “I do not favour cutting ties with West, but we must know who we are dealing with,” Khamenei said, according to Iran’s...

Democratic and Republican lawmakers from both the Senate and the House of Representatives have called on the Obama administration to take action against Iran in light of its ballistic missile launches, which are in violation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2231. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who voted for...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed a Palestinian who attempted to kill an Israeli soldier with her car as a “martyr.” “We see in her a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with her blood,” Abbas wrote in a letter to the parents of Amani Husni Sabatin, who...

The Israeli nanotech company Melodea won the Nanotechnology Innovation of the Year Award at the recent NanoIsrael 2016 conference in Tel Aviv. Melodea has developed a cost-effective proprietary technology to extract nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC) from wood pulp and other side streams of the paper industry. Considered a green and safe alternative to fossil...