The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported today on the efforts of IsraAID, an NGO funded by Jewish organizations and supported by the Israeli government, to aid African countries dealing with the Ebola epidemic. IsraAID is offering counseling to those on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak. Enter IsraAID. The lone Israeli or...

Less than two weeks before the deadline for the West to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, top nuclear experts as well as representatives from the P5+1 powers are expressing concerns that a comprehensive deal may not be reached by the November 24th deadline. French Foreign Minister Laurent...

In 2009, at the beginning of his first term in office, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would be seeking to “directly engage” with Iran. Nonetheless, Obama acknowledged that Iran’s “actions over many years now have been unhelpful when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity both in the region and...

A report that appeared Tuesday in Forbes Israel (Hebrew link) ranks Hamas as the world’s second wealthiest terror organization, trailing only the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in rankings. The Times of Israel reports: Hamas is the second richest terror group in the world, with finances of around $1...

A new Israeli study says obesity can play a major role in triggering and prolonging autoimmune diseases like Crohn’s Disease and multiple sclerosis (MS), in which the immune system attacks its own body rather than predatory invaders. A study published recently in Autoimmunity Reviews by Prof. Yehuda Shoenfeld, the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Chair for Research...

On Wednesday, The Times of Israel reported on a dilemma facing Israeli emergency room doctors. On October 22, after he ran into a crowd of pedestrians at a light rail stop in Jerusalem, killing two people (including a 3-month-old baby) and injuring several more, Abdelrahman al-Shaludi was shot by police...

Lawmakers on Wednesday issued a statement warning the White House that they would aim to increase sanctions on Tehran if the administration fails to agree to what Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) described as a “good deal” as the deadline to reach an agreement with Iran over its...

The Egyptian military said that one of its navy vessels came under a terrorist attack in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday, leaving eight servicemen missing at sea and presumed dead, and another five wounded. Four boats used by the assailants were destroyed and more than 30 of the suspected fighters were...

Hardline political factions in Iran attacked (Arabic link) the negotiations that the Islamic Republic is currently conducting with the international powers on the nuclear issue, claiming that these talks are “humiliating” Iran. “Washington does not want to fully lift the sanctions,” complained Ham Anshidi, a website associated with conservative political factions in...

In an analysis published Wednesday, veteran Palestinian affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh faults Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, along with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, for radicalizing “Palestinians to a point where it has become laughable even to talk about any peace process with Israel.” Instead of being honest with...