The growing rapprochement between Israel and Sunni Arab states can “actually help us resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria at the World Economic Forum on Thursday. I see the world as it is, not as I’d like it to be...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Pluristem Therapeutics, a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, the go-ahead to move forward with its innovative treatment approach for hematopoietic disorders. Pluristem was given permission to begin its Phase I trial of PLX-R18 cells to treat incomplete hematopoietic recovery...

A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has said that a two-state solution with a Palestinian state in the West Bank with Jerusalem as its capital would just be a “phase” ultimately resulting in a single Palestinian state. “Palestine stretches from the river to the sea,” Tawfiq...

There are growing concerns that the $1.7 billion payment the United States released to Iran last week amounted to a ransom for the freedom of American hostages held by the Islamic Republic, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. According to the Journal, the money was wired to Tehran...

Despite efforts by some politicians in Iran to reach out to the country’s Jewish community, “antisemitic propaganda distributed by official or semi-official media as well as high-ranking clerics” continues to influence Iranian public discourse, Raz Zimmt wrote in a report published Thursday for the Institute for the Study of Global...

A senior official from Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, declared in a TV interview Tuesday that “Hitler was not ‎morally corrupt, he was daring.” Tawfiq Tirawi, a top member of the Fatah Central Committee and former head of Palestinian intelligence, said in remarks broadcast on the Palestinian TV...

Isaac Herzog, the leader of the opposition in the Knesset and the head of the center-left Zionist Union, admitted in an interview Wednesday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is unrealistic in the near term. “I don’t see a possibility at the moment of implementing the two-state solution,” he told Army Radio. “I want to...

Former congressman and U.S. ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green called on the international community to pay greater attention to Iran’s ongoing human rights violations in an op-ed published Thursday in The Hill. Green argued that Iran will never be able to “realize its full potential” in the wake of the nuclear deal...

Slovenia’s largest supermarket chain has resumed selling Israeli produce after briefly capitulating to demands by anti-Israel campaigners, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Two days after the Mercator chain removed Israeli produce from its stores following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which seeks to isolate Israel internationally, the...

The commander of Iran’s Basij militia said that the $1.7 billion the United States agreed to pay Iran to settle outstanding debts was a ransom for the release of five American hostages over the weekend, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. “This money was returned for the freedom of...