50 parliamentary officials to attend international forum at Knesset
The Knesset will host its largest ever conference next week, to be attended by 50 secretaries general and directors general of parliaments from around the world.
Among the conference participants will be representatives of the...
Palestinian terrorist receives four life sentences for murdering Jewish family
Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed was sentenced to four life sentences for the murder of four members of the Solomon family in Halamish in July 2017.
Elad and Chaya Solomon, and their father, Yosef, were brutally...
Jewish students among victims of Florida shooting
Jewish students are among the victims of the deadly shooting at a Florida high school.
According to Rabbi Bradd Boxman of Kol Tikvah synagogue in Florida, at least four Jewish students are among the wounded,...
Scandinavian Jewish leaders pan Iceland’s plans to ban circumcision
Scandinavian Jewish leaders have slammed proposed legislation in Iceland that would ban ritual circumcision of boys in the country.
In an open letter issued by the Jewish Communities in the Nordic Countries, which represents Jewish...
Israeli company makes world’s first successful injections of lab-grown bone in potentially game-changing surgery
In an unprecedented procedure, the Israel-based biotechnology company Bonus BioGroup has successfully injected a lab-grown bone into three patients in the last six months, and is planning on making 27 more of the injections...
Haley: Iran drone incursion into Israel a ‘wake-up call’ to the world
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the Security Council on Wednesday that Iran’s drone incursion into Israel last weekend was a “wake-up call” to the world over the Islamic Republic’s intentions...
Politicians weigh in on Netanyahu scandal
After the Israel Police announced Tuesday that it had collected enough evidence to warrant indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, reactions quickly fell along partisan lines.
On Wednesday, Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett criticized the prime minister...
Medical cannabis can ‘significantly reduce’ chronic pain for elderly, Israeli researchers find
Medical cannabis therapy can significantly reduce chronic pain in patients 65 years and older without any adverse effects, according to researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Cannabis Clinical Research Institute...
Rivlin, JDC leaders gather to mark Israel’s 70th anniversary
More than 100 Jewish community leaders with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a humanitarian group working in more than 70 countries, met with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in Jerusalem to...
Israeli police push Netanyahu bribery indictment; he decries ‘slander’
Israeli police investigators have recommended that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted in two corruption cases, increasing the pressure to step down on one of the longest-serving Israeli leaders in the country’s history.
After a...