The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Pluristem Therapeutics, a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, the go-ahead to move forward with its innovative treatment approach for hematopoietic disorders. Pluristem was given permission to begin its Phase I trial of PLX-R18 cells to treat incomplete hematopoietic recovery...

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A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has said that a two-state solution with a Palestinian state in the West Bank with Jerusalem as its capital would just be a “phase” ultimately resulting in a single Palestinian state. “Palestine stretches from the river to the sea,” Tawfiq...

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Israeli authorities announced that they dismantled a cell of the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah, which was operating in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem under the direction of Jawad Nasrallah, son of the terrorist group’s leader, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The ringleader of the cell was...

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Israeli cyber startups notched a very profitable year in 2015 and this upcoming year’s cyber arena looks ripe for even further growth. According to a new report, Israel exported at least $3 billion worth of products and services last year. Israel Export Institute figures show that Israel is a cyber...

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A Palestinian has been arrested by Israeli security forces overnight Monday for the murder of Dafna Meir in her home on Sunday evening, The Times of Israel reported. The suspect was identified as 16-year-old Morad Bader Abdullah Adais from the village of Beit Amra, located nearly 2 miles from the West Bank community of Otniel...

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Israel is intensifying efforts to strengthen ties with Sunni Arab states in the wake of rising regional instability following the nuclear deal with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) on Thursday. The Journal identified several public examples of rapprochement between Israel and Arab states, all made in an effort “to...

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Agili-C, a cartilage regenerating technology from Israeli startup CartiHeal that could revolutionize treatment for cartilage damage and osteoarthritis, is preparing for a 2017 launch in the European market. In addition to its original indication for patients with knee cartilage damaged by traumatic injury, the biological scaffold is now being tested...

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The United States and Canada need to do more “to confront lethal homophobia and persecution in the Arab world and Iran,” Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a commentary for Canada’s National Post on Thursday. Weinthal advocated a number of steps that North American...

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The French Consulate in Jerusalem is helping the NGO Breaking the Silence wage a “demonization campaign” against Israel, undermining the Jewish state’s sovereignty and threatening its democracy, Gerald Steinberg, president of the watchdog group NGO Monitor, wrote Thursday in The Times of Israel. According to Steinberg, in 2015 the French...

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A record number of western European Jews are immigrating to Israel as a result of a spike in anti-Semitic attacks, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Citing the Jewish Agency, the AP wrote that 9,880 western European Jews immigrated to Israel in the last year, with some 8,000 of them coming...

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