In a risky and delicate procedure performed for the first time in Israel this week, an interdisciplinary team of Hadassah Medical Center physicians fixed a severe heart defect in a 28-week-old fetus in the womb. The medical team widened the baby’s aorta using a balloon technique similar to adult catheterization....

• Kindle

The lead singer of the popular British rock group Radiohead, which is slated to perform in Israel next week, raised his middle finger at anti-Israel protesters who were disrupting the band’s Glasgow concert on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, which seeks to...

• Kindle

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, expressed its support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in a Twitter post last week. “We salute and support the influential BDS Movement,” the Islamist faction tweeted on its official English-language account. We salute and support...

• Kindle

Modi Embraced in Israel Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed a historic, three-day tour of Israel this week, a significant part of which he spent with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he seems to have an excellent rapport. His trip included, among others, visits to Mt. Herzl, Yad Vashem, and the Danziger...

• Kindle

Israeli officials slammed UNESCO on Friday after it passed a Palestinian-backed resolution calling Hebron “Islamic” and designating its Old City, home of the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs, as a Palestinian world heritage site in danger. .@UNESCO resolution recognizing Palestinian version of Hebron history omitted little things like 1929 massacre that expelled...

• Kindle

The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has approved $7 million in funding for eight new projects between American and Israeli companies. The projects include innovations in areas of autonomous vehicles, biotechnology, digital health, homeland security, and nanotechnology. “The BIRD Foundation is undoubtedly a major anchor in the...

• Kindle

The 20th Maccabiah Games, in which a record 10,000 athletes from 80 countries will be competing in 43 sports, have opened with a spectacular ceremony in Jerusalem on Thursday. The capital’s Teddy Stadium hosted about 10,000 Jewish and Israeli athletes and tens of thousands of fans that came together to...

• Kindle

Israel’s prime minister discussed the situation in Syria with the president of Russia on Thursday in a scheduled telephone call. The Kremlin issued a statement after the conversation and said that “Mr Putin and Mr Netanyahu continued their exchange of opinions on topical issues of Russia-Israel cooperation” and “discussed the...

• Kindle

A doctoral student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem won an award for developing a test that could revolutionize early detection of Parkinson’s disease in patients, the university announced on Wednesday. The Kaye Innovation Award was given to Suaad Abd-Elhadi, who developed a diagnostic approach for detecting a specific protein, alpha-synuclein, which is associated...

• Kindle

The Israeli military is purchasing an unspecified number of small, multi-rotor drones that can be armed and have sufficient mobility to perform well in urban combat situations, Defense One reported Thursday. The TIKAD drone is made by Duke Robotics, a Florida-based company that was co-founded by Lt. Col. Raziel “Razi” Atuar, a 20-year...

• Kindle