On a house-to-house mission in the Florida Keys, search-and-rescue volunteers from Israel discovered an ailing American military veteran who spent four days without water, electricity or telephone reception in his home as Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc outside. “You are the first people to come down here and offer aid,” the...

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In his meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump expressed hope that his administration could achieve “peace between Israel and the Palestinians,” even as the Palestinian Authority considers making another unity deal with terrorist group Hamas. Trump said that his administration would give the project of...

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To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, the first prototype of Genius: 100 Visions of the Future—the world’s first entirely 3D-printed book printed and bound in one piece—was produced on the International Space Station in zero-gravity conditions 400 kilometers above Earth. The project was...

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A Palestinian man who was accused of helping Israel was taken by his Palestinian Authority jailers to a dentist, who then pulled some of his healthy teeth, the man told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday. Sami, and a second man, Dani, are two of 51 former prisoners who are suing the...

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Hamas, the terrorist group that controls Gaza, announced that two of its members died in separate tunnel collapses, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The two dead men were identified as Khalil al-Dimyati, 32, and Yusef Abu Abed, 22 and were killed in “resistance tunnels,” the term Hamas uses for tunnels built as part...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued his tour of South America with visits to Colombia and Mexico. Netanyahu met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota and they discussed deepening bilateral cooperation in the fields of agriculture, water technology, innovation and cyber defense. Netanyahu said that under the Colombian President’s...

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Israel is fast becoming a powerhouse in the development of advanced automotive technology and international companies and governmental bodies are taking notice. The latest partnership to be announced is between the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and...

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The anti-Israel boycott bill currently being considered by Congress would prohibit individuals and organizations to “boycott Israel at the behest of international governmental organizations,” and would not affect a person’s ability to criticize Israel, wrote two former Democratic administration officials in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Jonathan...

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During the week of August 15-23, 2017, volunteers with Israel’s Eye from Zion humanitarian organization held an “eye camp” in Chuka, Kenya. They received 723 patients in three locations, from infants to senior citizens, performing free treatments and surgeries—85 percent of the surgeries to remove cataracts and 10% to correct astigmatism. Medical...

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On Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) withdrew its attempt to gain full membership in the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization (UNTWO) due to American pressure. The chairman of the UN’s tourism body announced during a meeting in Chengdu that UNTWO will postpone a vote on accepting the PA as a...

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