The world’s democracies must reassess their ties with UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural organization, if it does not revisit the resolution it passed last week denying the Jewish and Christian historical connections to Jerusalem, Josh Block, President and CEO of The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), wrote in an op-ed Wednesday in The...

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The resolution passed last week by UNESCO, the UN cultural organization, which denied any historical connection between Jews and Jerusalem, was a “victory” for the Palestinians, spokesmen for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas said on Tuesday. Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri released a statement saying that his group “welcomes” the resolution, which he characterized as describing Temple Mount...

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D – Calif.), an Air Force veteran and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, harshly criticized the vote by UNESCO, the UN’s cultural organization, to approve a resolution that did not acknowledge Jewish and Christian connections to Jewish holy places in Jerusalem. Lieu released a statement on...

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Private documents released by WikiLeaks show that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held significantly different private views on Middle East policy than President Barack Obama, Eli Lake of Bloomberg View reported Monday. In the transcript of a speech given to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago in 2013, Clinton rejected the idea that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was...

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We always knew spinach was a great source of energy for our bodies. Now it seems the nutritious leafy green can also provide energy for other purposes. Using a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa invented a bio-photo-electro-chemical (BPEC) cell that...

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Amid a faltering economy, Egypt is looking to Israel for economic assistance, with the two countries discussing a series of large-scale projects, Ynet reported Tuesday. The news is the latest example of increasingly-close ties between the two neighbors, who have reached a new level of cooperation under Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after decades...

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The Haifa-based startup MeMed has received tens of millions of dollars in investments and prize money to further develop ImmunoXpert, a system now used by hospitals in the EU, Switzerland, and Israel to determine rapidly whether an infection is bacterial or viral. Because they are usually unable to determine the cause of...

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Israel has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading tech research and development hubs, and executives from Silicon Valley’s biggest firms have ideas why that is. With a population just over 8.5 million, the Jewish state enjoys the highest density of startups and venture capital investment per capita in the...

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One of the most enduring images of last summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro captured Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian judo competitor, or judoka, turning his back on the outstretched hand of his opponent, Or Sasson, after the Israeli athlete’s victory in a bout that earned him the bronze...

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Israel and Saudi Arabia should form a “collaborative alliance” to become the “twin pillars of regional stability” in the Middle East, a top Saudi lobbyist wrote in The Hill on Tuesday, in what is the latest sign of warming and increasingly-public ties between Arab countries and the Jewish state. Salman al-Ansari, the...

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