A particular protein that defies the cell’s normal system of tagging and banishing defective or no longer needed proteins seems to play a significant role in suppressing malignant growth, according to Israeli researchers. The study was conducted at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Professor Aaron Ciechanover,...

Apple purchased an Israeli digital photography startup to help improve the camera in the iPhone, which has been challenged by other smartphones’ camera capabilities, The Times of Israel reported today: On his recent trip to Israel, Apple CEO Tim Cook predicted that the company would make new acquisitions in the near future – and...

Hamas has accelerated the rebuilding of its terror tunnels, which were destroyed last summer during Operation Protective Edge, even as it neglects rebuilding homes that were damaged during its war against Israel, The Times of Israel reported today. Hamas has begun using heavy machinery and engineering tools to accelerate the excavation of...

A day after a Senate committee unanimously approved a bill mandating congressional review of any nuclear deal with Iran before sanctions can be lifted, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told a crowd that “if there is no end to sanctions, there will not be an agreement,” Reuters reported today. “If there is no end...

President Barack Obama’s decision to offer support for the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, which mandates Congressional oversight of any Iranian nuclear deal and was passed unanimously by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, was prompted by the likelihood that the president’s veto of the bill would be overridden, The Times of...

A meeting between Jordanian and Israeli environmentalists in Aqaba recently has the green sector in both countries cautiously optimistic. It was the first time in 10 years that Israeli and Jordanian groups working to improve and conserve the coastal and marine environment in the Gulf of Aqaba came to the...

Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was arrested last July, will stand trial for espionage, CNN reported Monday. The Iranian-American will be tried soon on espionage, Tehran’s chief justice said. He is accused of economic spying, the Post reported, citing Iranian state media. The Washington Post did not mince words...

A bill mandating Congressional oversight of any Iran nuclear deal agreed to by the administration passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously today after the top senators on the committee agreed to a compromise on the bill’s language. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the committee, said that the legislation, which...

In a reversal of the administration’s longstanding objections to congressional oversight of an emerging deal over Iran’s nuclear program, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that President Barack Obama would sign a compromise Senate bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier today. Defense News reports:...

The Iran Task Force, a “group of former government officials and nuclear, legal, and sanctions experts” issued a statement today supporting a “decisive” role for Congress in affirming any nuclear deal with Iran agreed to by the White House. We support bipartisan efforts to give Congress a decisive role in...