The international body governing the sport of sailing will be investigating Malaysia for its failure to issue Israeli athletes visas to compete in the Youth Sailing World Championships in Langkawi, Malaysia, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The Israel Sailing Association (ISA) informed World Sailing that Malaysia would not allow Yoav...

An Israeli-developed blood test that can potentially detect an early stage of Alzheimer’s disease years before the onset of noticeable symptoms has begun clinical trials in the United States. NeuroQuest Development Center is working with the University of California-San Diego to collect and process blood samples for the tests, which...

JNS.org – Next month marks the first anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who spent a decade investigating the 1994 Iranian-backed bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. In that massacre, 85 people were murdered and hundreds more injured. Nisman’s lifeless body, readers...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, threatened to invade Israel and massacre Jews, The Times of Israel reported on Saturday. ISIS forces are “coming closer” and will “soon meet [the Jews] in Palestine,” al-Baghdadi declared in an audio recording released online. “Israel will pay a heavy price at the hands...

Silent Partner, an Israeli device to quiet snoring, has recently exceeded its crowdfunding goals and attracted interest from the country’s high-tech community, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Created by Netanel Eyal and Yoni Bazak, the Silent Partner smart patch fits around the nose and employs Active Noise Cancellation...

A group of 47 prominent religious-Zionist rabbis signed a letter denouncing Jewish terror and supporting the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, in its investigation of the fatal firebombing of an Arab home in July, The Times of Israel reported on Friday. “We condemn and reject all the detestable manifestations...

Iran’s violations of human rights, support for terrorist proxies, and use of anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda have escalated in the wake of the nuclear deal, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League‘s national director, wrote Wednesday in the San Diego Jewish World. Greenblatt, who previously served as a special assistant to President...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ recently announced plan to issue passports marked “State of Palestine” next year would violate the Oslo Accords and further undermine the cause of peace, Ambassador Alan Baker, who helped draft the accords, wrote Thursday in an analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Calling...

Clashes in recent weeks between Nigerian government security forces and the Iran-aligned Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) show the “challenge Iran and its proxy groups pose, even in places far from the Middle East’s violence sectarian fault line.” Armin Rosen of Business Insider reported Tuesday. The clashes apparently began after members of...

A group of congressional leaders, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – Calif.), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R – Calif.), and the heads of two key committees, wrote a letter on Wednesday to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson expressing...