In an apparent attempt to convince the Israeli government to make a deal for the return of the body of Hadar Goldin, who was killed in an ambush in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Hamas mocked his mother on social media, telling her to pressure the government for...

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Israel boasts about 1,350 active companies in the life-sciences fields of medical devices, biopharma, therapeutics, diagnostics and digital health. What’s the prognosis for this major Israeli sector in the 2018? According to the 2017 year-end report from Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI), 38 percent of Israel’s active life-sciences companies are...

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Israeli tourism hit an all-time high in 2017, earning $5.8 billion (₪20 billion) in revenue from incoming tourism alone thanks to new flight routes and marketing efforts led by the Ministry of Tourism. A total of 3.6 million tourists were recorded, a 25 percent increase over 2016. “The all-time record...

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Can neurodegenerative diseases such Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s actually be reversed? New research from Tel Aviv University suggests so. It all has to do with how proteins clump together in a cell. Let’s use the example of an omelet to explain what’s going on. To cook an omelet, you have to...

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For the second time this month, a Shiite militia leader has posed on the Lebanese border with Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. Al-Hajj Hamza, a commander of Liwa al-Baqir, a Hezbollah-allied Syrian militia trained by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was seen in pictures posted on social media showing him on the...

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The U.S. and Israel agreed to a joint strategic work plan to counter Iranian activity in the Middle East during a secret meeting between senior officials at the White House two weeks ago, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. The plan reportedly calls for coordinated action to thwart Tehran’s nuclear...

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Israeli planes and tanks struck two Hamas facilities in the northern Gaza Strip following the firing of three rockets into Israel on Friday. Israel’s Iron Dome intercepted two of the rockets, but a third fell and damaged a building in Israel’s Shaar Hanegev region, on the border with with Gaza, The...

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Lebanon’s foreign minister has come under fire from other members of the government for saying in an interview earlier this week that “we are not against Israel living in security,” Reuters reported Thursday. Gebran Bassil made the comments in an interview with al-Mayadin television channel, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, on...

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A super-strong steel substitute invented in Israel that was sent into space by NASA has now returned to the Middle East to be used in hip replacements. The material, which goes by the scientific name MP-1, was developed by Aliza Buchman, development manager of Nahariya-based startup MMA Tech in collaboration with Prof....

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Syrian troops supported by Iranian-backed militias and Hezbollah are on the verge of capturing a rebel-held village at the foot of Mt. Hermon, just seven miles from the border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Rebels in the village of Mugr al Meer report that they are being attacked by “heavy...

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