Last month, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, an Israeli bio-technology startup announced two major milestones: the company received a patent from the United States Patent Office its autologous stem cell technology called Nurown and it entered into an agreement with Massachusetts General Hospital to hold a Phase II clinical trial of Nurown....

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One of the harshest attacks against Israel made in increasingly mainstream circles in recent months is that the Israeli presence in the West Bank has resulted in “Water Apartheid” — a systematic deprivation of the Palestinians’ water rights. Most famously, it was raised in February by Martin Schultz, president of...

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This week the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the human rights situation in Iran for “continued, systemic violation of fundamental rights” and called on its member states to prioritize human rights in their dealings with Iran. Despite the continuing nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 countries, the Islamic...

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Palestinian officials on Thursday reportedly presented a new list of demands that the Israelis would have to meet lest the Palestinians abandon peace talks, as Jerusalem reacted to Tuesday’s diplomatic gambit by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – in which Abbas committed to joining 15 international treaties in violation of commitments designed to promote...

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An Israeli company, GreenTeam Internet, helped Turkish Twitter users evade their government’s much derided Twitter ban. The Times of Israel reports: The Turkish users, said [GreenTeam Internet CEO David] Allouch, weren’t interested in the filtering service offered by GreenTeam, but rather in the fact that the service was offering a...

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Recent weeks have seen an escalation of tensions between Hezbollah in Israel. Attacks on the Golan from Lebanon have brought about IAF responses to restore deterrence. The aggressiveness of Hezbollah and its growing threat to Israel raise the specter of another war. Lee Smith, senior editor at the Weekly Standard,...

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Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, is in Israel for the fifth time during his term as chairman. According to the Defense Department, Gen. Dempsey’s visit shows  “America’s unwavering commitment to Israel’s security.” Millions of refugees from Syria’s civil war are straining resources...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Israel late Monday as reports emerged that Jerusalem had presented Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas with a draft proposal designed to extend U.S.-brokered negotiations beyond their originally scheduled April 29 deadline. “Our negotiating team has been working with both parties on the ground to help...

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Last week American ratings agency, Standard and Poor’s issued its report on Israel’s economy. The ratings agency affirmed Israel’s highest ratings for both long term and short term obligations – A+ and A-1 respectively. The Times of Israel reports that Israel benefited from “prosperous and diverse economy.” The ratings agency also...

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Just a day after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke of “coffins of Israeli soldiers,” the organization has thrown into disarray internal Lebanese talks about a national dialogue. The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV said the reason for the party’s boycott of the Dialogue session was what it termed [Lebanese President Michel] Suleiman’s...

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