Israel is intensifying efforts to strengthen ties with Sunni Arab states in the wake of rising regional instability following the nuclear deal with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. The Journal identified several public examples of rapprochement between Israel and Arab states, all made in an effort “to...

Agili-C, a cartilage regenerating technology from Israeli startup CartiHeal that could revolutionize treatment for cartilage damage and osteoarthritis, is preparing for a 2017 launch in the European market. In addition to its original indication for patients with knee cartilage damaged by traumatic injury, the biological scaffold is now being tested...

The United States and Canada need to do more “to confront lethal homophobia and persecution in the Arab world and Iran,” Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a commentary for Canada’s National Post on Thursday. Weinthal advocated a number of steps that North American...

The French Consulate in Jerusalem is helping the NGO Breaking the Silence wage a “demonization campaign” against Israel, undermining the Jewish state’s sovereignty and threatening its democracy, Gerald Steinberg, president of the watchdog group NGO Monitor, wrote Thursday in The Times of Israel. According to Steinberg, in 2015 the French...

Iran’s seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews on Tuesday likely violated the principle of “innocent passage” in international maritime law, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. Officials are looking into whether one of the sailors may have “fat-fingered” a navigation unit, entering erroneous coordinates...

A record number of western European Jews are immigrating to Israel as a result of a spike in anti-Semitic attacks, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Citing the Jewish Agency, the AP wrote that 9,880 western European Jews immigrated to Israel in the last year, with some 8,000 of them coming...

The head of the Iranian armed forces called Tuesday’s seizure of two American naval vessels and their crews a “lesson” to members of Congress, Iran’s semi-official PressTV network reported on Wednesday. “We hope the incident in north of the Persian Gulf, which will not be probably the American forces’ last mistake in...

After investing significant resources in the construction of attack tunnels that extend from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas has successfully rebuilt an underground network that may rival the one Israel discovered and destroyed in 2014, a prominent Israeli defense analyst has said. Amos Harel wrote in Haaretz...

The increasing diplomatic activity between the United States and Iran, and specifically between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has “unsettled” longtime American allies, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The Obama administration has insisted that the nuclear deal that Iran signed with global...

Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman John McCain (R – Ariz.) and State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner both raised the possibility on Wednesday that Iran’s treatment of American sailors that it detained was a violation of international law. McCain, a former Navy officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, said in a...