A new study by University of Haifa scientists has identified a new form of activity by brain proteins associated with memory impairments in Alzheimer’s disease, and has also found that “repairing” this activity leads to an improvement in memory. “In the study we found that the nerve cells in the...

New bills are being introduced in Congress with bipartisan support that would target the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s powerful extraterritorial militia, preventing it from benefiting from the sanctions relief that was allowed as part of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic. Proposals like the IRGC Sanctions Act,...

An Israeli-made ventilation device is being used by the U.S. Army to save troops injured in Afghanistan, David Shamah, technology reporter for The Times of Israel, reported on Tuesday. Pocket BVM (bag valve mask device) is the brainchild of Dov Maisel, an American-born Israeli, and his friend Akiva Pollack, both...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States of creating ISIS and trying to destroy Islamic civilization in a speech Tuesday in Tehran. Khamenei made his comments in front of Muslim scholars, leaders and political figures at the International Islamic Unity Conference. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported...

The role of Iranian agents in perpetrating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and then covering up the investigation, must be fully probed now that the new Argentine government has scrapped plans for a joint “truth commission” with Iran, Matthew Levitt, a leading expert on...

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, threatened to attack Israelis Sunday in retaliation for the death of the terrorist Samir Kuntar, who was killed in an airstrike on a Damascus suburb on December 19. “The Israelis should be justifiably worried,” the Hezbollah chief said. “They should be worried along...

A senior Palestinian official said that some members of Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, want to escalate the ongoing wave of terror against Israelis by orchestrating suicide bombings, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. The official, who remained anonymous, warned in an interview with Israel Radio...

The United Kingdom is planning to introduce new guidelines that forbid local councils from undermining British foreign policy by waging their own boycott campaigns against other nations, The Guardian reported on Saturday. The directive, which will be issued early next year, will emphasize that local governing bodies must pursue policies...

The IDF has intensified efforts to collect information on ISIS-Sinai Province, the Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, after the group issued several threats against the Jewish state, Ynet reported on Sunday. Military Intelligence has added ‘heavy’ and classified operative layers to its efforts to increase and improve the...

Spain’s National Court cancelled arrest orders issued by a lower court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and six other former and present Israeli officials, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported Saturday for The Jerusalem Post. Initially signed in November, the warrants called for the arrest...