Two former Israel Air Force pilots, both passionate athletes, already devised a bio-sensing technology embedded in headgear to measure vital signs. Now, the smart sensors that power their LifeBEAM line of sport caps, visors, and helmets are going into Samsung’s future Simband platform for wearable devices to measure heart rate, blood flow, sweat...

In what is described as a “minor revolution,” the results of next week’s Israeli elections may result in the increase of female representation in top political positions, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday. While the number of women serving in the next Knesset isn’t likely to rise, “the number of women holding senior positions...

Talks are underway between the seven countries negotiating over Iran’s nuclear program—including the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council—to lift the security council’s sanctions on Iran, Reuters reported today. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council...

The Obama administration has undermined its own negotiating by claiming that the deal it is negotiating with Iran is “non-binding,” according an analysis published yesterday in The Daily Beast. The Obama administration was so outraged with the Republican attempt to undercut the president’s foreign policy negotiations that it sent the vice...

Two new proposed laws in Iran designed to marginalize women who don’t bear children will further erode women’s rights and reduce Iranian women to “baby making machines,” according to a new report by Amnesty International published on Wednesday. One of the laws outlaws voluntary sterilization, which is believed to be the second most common method...

In addition to being one of the most violent and brutal terror groups in the Middle East, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also has a very sophisticated media system and public relations strategy. A new report (Arabic link) found that ISIS has seven distinct media outlets through which...

A Syrian activist who is visiting Israel said “we saw the Israelis are human beings and not monsters,” Ha’aretz reported yesterday. The activist had been part of a network of health professionals who sought to secretly treat rebels and protect them from the government of President Bashar al-Assad. However, two years...

Noting that scientific collaborations between Britain and Israel are “booming,” Sir Mark Walport, chief scientific adviser to the British Government, writes that “British businesses and universities are keen to collaborate,” in the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, yesterday. From the prime minister down, the government of the U.K. is committed to a stronger...

An investigation into the Associated Press’s news coverage of last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas found that an AP report published last month analyzing the death toll in Gaza was “botched in just about every imaginable way.” In an article for The New York Observer published Tuesday, journalists Richard Behar and Gary Weiss found that the news organization...

Shock Pad, invented by Pashut Yarok (“Simply Green”), is the first-ever use of polyethylene waste materials for safety flooring. Pashut Yarok, which manufactures and imports synthetic grass, intends Shock Pad as an underlay to all kinds of common surfaces, such as rubber, parquet, tarmac, concrete and artificial grass. He uses...