Oberlin College’s announcement last week of a new interim vice president and dean of students has attracted further controversy as the school works to address what some community members describe as a hostile campus environment towards Jewish students and freedom of inquiry and expression. Meredith Raimondo, who joined Oberlin’s Department of Comparative...

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A five-year-old Syrian girl’s life was saved twice in recent weeks by Israeli doctors: Once when they treated her wounds from a firefight between rival militias, and again when she was diagnosed with cancer. Israel’s Channel 10 reported that the girl received her diagnosis at Haifa’s Rambam Hospital two weeks after she had had...

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Zuhair Bahloul, a member of the Knesset from the Labor Party, reignited an old controversy this week, claiming that Palestinians who attack Israeli soldiers are not terrorists. “Those who attack families in their sleep cannot be considered terrorists if they attack an army base,” maintained Bahloul on Army Radio. Alluding to...

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Israel’s high-tech arena posted confident first-quarter numbers, with over 30 startups raising more than $10 million each in funding rounds from January to March 2016, according to a new Ethosia Human Resources report. $869.3 million in investments were totaled in the first quarter. Leading the group were cyber security analytics company Skybox Security...

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Tests show that an Israeli-developed therapy is effective in fighting prostate cancer, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The treatment, called Tookad Soluble, was developed by professors Yoram Salomon and Avigdor Scherzat of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. It uses principles of photosynthesis to identify and then kill cancer cells,...

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Last month, while visiting refugee camps in southern Algeria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Morocco’s 1975 annexation of Western Sahara as “occupation.” In doing so, he broke an unspoken UN rule. Allegations of occupation are not used when describing China’s relationship with Tibet, nor Russia’s relationship with Ukraine, nor...

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In what is likely a first in the long and protracted history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Twitter was used to reject the possibility of peace negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to meet immediately without preconditions to discuss peace and an end to the current wave of Palestinian...

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A United Nations office has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars to NGOs that are highly critical of Israel, and has helped those groups disseminate their information, a new report by the watchdog group NGO Monitor has documented. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for “bringing...

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When disaster strikes, Israel’s government, army, and aid agencies are always among the first to send material and expert assistance, whether it’s earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal, tsunamis in Sri Lanka and Japan, typhoon in the Philippines, or other mass disasters in Turkey, India, Mexico, El Salvador, Greece, Rwanda, Armenia,...

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A Stanford student senate hearing on a bill to fight anti-Semitism ended in controversy after one of the senators argued that questioning whether Jews control the government, media, and banks is not anti-Semitic, The Stanford Review reported on Tuesday. The senator’s statement preceded the adoption of a series of amendments that largely gutted...

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