Booker Award-winning novelist Howard Jacobson said in an interview with the BBC’s Chris Cook last Friday that he had noticed “a new viciousness” in the anti-Semitism of the British Left since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party last year. The issue of anti-Semitism has been dogging the Labour Party since Corbyn’s...

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Four tons of a chemical used to manufacture long-range rockets were stopped from being smuggled into Gaza, Israeli security announced Tuesday. Security forces seized the ammonium chloride before Passover at the Nitzana border crossing between Israel and Egypt. The crossing is also used to facilitate the shipment of goods into Gaza. The Shin...

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In a series of rebuffs to the United States’ outreach, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Sunday that America is Iran’s “main enemy,” and went on to mock President Barack Obama’s hopeful Nowruz holiday message from earlier this year. Khamenei asserted in a meeting with leaders of the terrorist...

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The distinct languages spoken by more than 800 native tribes in Papua New Guinea are fast disappearing—and taking their family stories with them into oblivion. In response, employees of MyHeritage, an Israeli genealogical website, led a mission this past March to record and preserve those stories for future generations. Founded in 2003, MyHeritage...

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An Austrian banking giant has terminated the account of an anti-Israel group involved in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. Erste Group Bank was first revealed to be hosting an account held by BDS Austria in March. In a statement on its website, BDS Austria claimed that its bank...

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Despite pledging to donor nations that it would cease paying salaries to jailed terrorists, the Palestinian Authority has continued to so, the watchdog organization Palestinian Media Watch charged in a report last week. After repeated complaints by the United States and European countries that its donations to the Palestinian Authority were being...

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In March, 200 participants in the 16th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound in Tel Aviv saw a livestreamed medical procedure to cure a woman’s essential tremor without incisions or anesthesia. Neurology and radiology experts at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa used the Exablate Neuro system developed in Israel by...

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Israeli-founded Desalitech — which provides high-efficiency water treatment for industrial, agricultural and wastewater reuse and concentration applications – has won a top prize at the 2016 Global Water Awards. Judges at the prestigious contest — held at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, UAE — chose Desalitech as the Breakthrough Water Technology...

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Bacterial adherence to medical implants and surgical equipment is a known cause of infections. Now, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed an innovative anti-biofilm coating, which has significant anti-adhesive potential for a variety of medical and industrial applications. And that could mean far fewer infections following...

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An experiment carried out at Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology could prove famed physicist Stephen Hawking’s theories about the nature of black holes, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Hawking hypothesized in 1974 that black holes contain subatomic light particles that could escape and take energy with them, eventually leading to...

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