The new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering a “tectonic” adjustment in its foreign policy by no longer voting for the Palestinians in the United Nations, The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, reported Monday. In what could amount to a tectonic shift in the country’s foreign policy, the Modi...

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In an interview in The New York Times published today, former Israeli chief negotiator Tzipi Livni detailed how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas undermined the American-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Livni’s account, given to the Times‘s Roger Cohen, identified three specific episodes that led to the collapse of the talks. On March 17, in...

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A sniper from Gaza targeted an IDF patrol near the border with Israel today, seriously injuring an Israeli soldier. The New York Times reports: After a routine patrol on the Israeli side of the border came under fire, the Israeli military responded with air and ground forces, in what appeared to be the...

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A groundbreaking discovery of a unique mutation in a gene that could be one of the causes of premature ovarian failure (also known as primary ovarian insufficiency, or POI). A Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Schneider Children’s Medical Center study reports of a previously-unidentified cause of POI in humans —...

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An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, a chronic disease marked by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing as the lining of the lungs’ bronchial tubes swells and narrows the airways. A new study suggests that a vitamin D deficiency – a common problem — increases the likelihood...

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Kay Wilson, a survivor of a brutal 2010 terror attack, hid Mohammad Zoabi, an outspoken Israeli-Arab Zionist teen, in her house for one month this past summer until he could be spirited off to the United States for his own protection, The Times of Israel reported today. At the height...

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Foreign Policy on Thursday assessed growing tensions between Palestinian officials and Washington, citing a range of statements to the effect that relations between Ramallah and Washington may become strained should the Palestinians continue to press unilateral moves toward statehood at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The outlet, which said the...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not overlook the firing of even a single rocket at Israel after a third rocket exploded in Israel since the conclusion of Operation Protective Edge this past summer. Speaking at a Hanuka candle- lighting ceremony at the Western Wall, Netanyahu said: “Israel’s safety...

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International corporations have become key players in investing in Israeli startups, according to entrepreneur and investor Ed Frank, founder of Axis Innovation. That’s why Frank organized Axis Tel Aviv: Corporate Edition, an event at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that drew together over 25 investors of global Corporate venture capitalists...

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The US affiliate of Israel’s Energiya, an international solar development firm headed by Yosef Abramowitz, recently won a $30 million, 17.68 megawatt solar deal in southeastern Georgia, the first utility scale solar project in the region. The enormous 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with Georgia Power Company – to be called...

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