This month, two Israeli pharmaceutical companies received good news from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Jerusalem’s Gamida Cell was granted orphan product development status for NiCord, its enriched stem-cell treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. Orphan drug designation promotes the development of promising...

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, who assumed the throne of the desert kingdom in 2005, died earlier today in a hospital. According to the BBC, he was suffering from a lung infection. He succeeded his brother King Fahd in 2005, though Abdullah had effectively been ruling the country...

The airstrike on January 18 that killed Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers, allegedly undertaken by the IDF, has been surprisingly welcomed with cheers by many in the Middle East. The strike destroyed a convoy carrying senior Hezbollah commanders and an Iranian military team headed by a general in the Iranian Revolutionary...

Yesterday’s terror attack in Tel Aviv, in which at least 17 Israelis were injured when a Palestinian terrorist boarded a bus and attacked commuters with a knife before being apprehended by Israeli police, is increasingly seen as occurring in an environment of Palestinian anti-Israel incitement. There has been increased incitement to violence...

In her column today, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin described “a quiet diplomatic war behind the scenes” as a political divide grows between the Obama administration on one side, and Congressional leadership and America’s Middle East allies, including Israel, on the other. Rubin identified three recent episodes as highlighting this divide. First was President Barack...

The sense of shock arising from the mysterious death of State Prosecutor Alberto Nisman on Sunday has reverberated across Argentina and the entire world. His death—the latest tragic development in a case that has yet to secure a single conviction, more than twenty years after the AMIA Jewish community center...

President Barack Obama’s claims in his State of the Union Address Tuesday night have earned the president “Three Pinocchios” for inaccuracies, The Washington Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, wrote today. Kessler consulted with a number of experts about Obama’s claim that, “our diplomacy is at work with respect to Iran, where,...

As doubts continue to grow about the administration’s claims made of progress in the nuclear negotiations, including those made by President Barack Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union address, senators from both parties are seeking to introduce legislation to restore the West’s leverage in those negotiations. In his State...

A federal judge in Argentina has released a 289-page criminal complaint accusing Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of plotting to cover up an investigation into Iran’s possible terrorist activities in that country. The document was released three days after prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who compiled the complaint, died under mysterious circumstances. The Wall Street Journal has more (Google...

The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal editorial boards responded with skepticism over President Obama’s opposition to new conditional legislation that could impose economic pressure on Iran. Both pieces take aim at President Obama’s logic for threatening to veto legislation that would only take effect if nuclear negotiations fail...