home pageIllustrative: United States ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)The US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, said on Wednesday that another Arab state could sign a peace deal with Israel within days.“Our plan is to bring more countries, which we will have more being announced very soon,” Craft the Al Arabiya news outlet. “Could be one in the next day or two.”She framed the normalization effort, following Israel’s deals with the United Arab Emirates and...…home pageIllustrative: United States ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, February 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)The US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, said on Wednesday that another Arab state could sign a peace deal with Israel within days.“Our plan is to bring more countries, which we will have more being announced very soon,” Craft the Al Arabiya news outlet. “Could be one in the next day or two.”She framed the normalization effort, following Israel’s deals with the United Arab Emirates and...WW…

home pageLeila Khaled at the congress of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, or HDP, in Ankara, Turkey, February 11, 2018 (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)A planned speech by a Palestinian terrorist at a virtual event hosted by San Francisco State University suffered a setback Tuesday after Zoom reportedly pulled the plug on hosting the event amid a public outcry.Leila Khaled, who helped hijack an Israel-bound flight in 1969, was scheduled to give a speech on Wednesday as part of an event organized by the university’s Department of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies on “Teaching...…home pageLeila Khaled at the congress of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, or HDP, in Ankara, Turkey, February 11, 2018 (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)A planned speech by a Palestinian terrorist at a virtual event hosted by San Francisco State University suffered a setback Tuesday after Zoom reportedly pulled the plug on hosting the event amid a public outcry.Leila Khaled, who helped hijack an Israel-bound flight in 1969, was scheduled to give a speech on Wednesday as part of an event organized by the university’s Department of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies on “Teaching...WW…

home pageMohsen Rezaei (MEMRI screenshot)A top Iranian official has repeated his threat to “raze Israeli cities to the ground” if the Jewish state takes any action against the Islamic Republic, hinting that Tehran could attack even in retaliation to US military action, in the tense aftermath of the killing earlier this year of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani.“If the Zionist entity takes even the slightest initiative, you may rest assured that we will raze the Israeli cities to the ground,” Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s powerful Expediency Council, told Qatar’s Al-Jazeera...…home pageMohsen Rezaei (MEMRI screenshot)A top Iranian official has repeated his threat to “raze Israeli cities to the ground” if the Jewish state takes any action against the Islamic Republic, hinting that Tehran could attack even in retaliation to US military action, in the tense aftermath of the killing earlier this year of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani.“If the Zionist entity takes even the slightest initiative, you may rest assured that we will raze the Israeli cities to the ground,” Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s powerful Expediency Council, told Qatar’s Al-Jazeera...WW…

home pageIllustration of a man receiving a vaccine. November 06, 2018. (David Cohen/FLASH90)Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday said he witnessed a “significant breakthrough” by Israel’s defense biological research institute in developing an antibody to COVID-19, as the researchers wrapped up the development phase and moved to patent and mass produce the potential treatment.Bennett visited the labs of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), a secretive unit that works under the Prime Minister’s Office, in Ness Ziona and was shown the “antibody that attacks the virus in a...…home pageIllustration of a man receiving a vaccine. November 06, 2018. (David Cohen/FLASH90)Defense Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday said he witnessed a “significant breakthrough” by Israel’s defense biological research institute in developing an antibody to COVID-19, as the researchers wrapped up the development phase and moved to patent and mass produce the potential treatment.Bennett visited the labs of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), a secretive unit that works under the Prime Minister’s Office, in Ness Ziona and was shown the “antibody that attacks the virus in a...WW…

home pageUnited Nations Secretary General António Guterres, left, speaks with Volkan Bozkir, president of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, ahead of the General Assembly's seventy-fifth session, September 22, 2020, at UN headquarters in New York. (Rick Bajornas/UN via AP)The United Nations General Assembly on Monday adopted two resolutions criticizing Israel, bringing 2020’s total tally to 17 resolutions against the Jewish state versus six resolutions singling out any other country, according to a by pro-Israel watchdog UN Watch.Israel and activists have long...…home pageUnited Nations Secretary General António Guterres, left, speaks with Volkan Bozkir, president of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, ahead of the General Assembly's seventy-fifth session, September 22, 2020, at UN headquarters in New York. (Rick Bajornas/UN via AP)The United Nations General Assembly on Monday adopted two resolutions criticizing Israel, bringing 2020’s total tally to 17 resolutions against the Jewish state versus six resolutions singling out any other country, according to a by pro-Israel watchdog UN Watch.Israel and activists have long...WW…

home pageIllustrative: The University of Adelaide seen in a promotional video. (Screenshot/YouTube)JTA — The student union at the University of Adelaide fired an editor of its campus student magazine after she called for “death to Israel” in an article last month.In a statement on Tuesday, the board of YouX, the university’s student body, said that Habibah Jaghoori’s “recent public conduct would reasonably be perceived by any fair-minded person to be threatening the welfare of students at our University.”Jaghoori, an editor of On Dit, the campus student magazine, concluded an on August 4...…home pageIllustrative: The University of Adelaide seen in a promotional video. (Screenshot/YouTube)JTA — The student union at the University of Adelaide fired an editor of its campus student magazine after she called for “death to Israel” in an article last month.In a statement on Tuesday, the board of YouX, the university’s student body, said that Habibah Jaghoori’s “recent public conduct would reasonably be perceived by any fair-minded person to be threatening the welfare of students at our University.”Jaghoori, an editor of On Dit, the campus student magazine, concluded an on August 4...WW…

home pageThis Dec. 13, 2011, photo shows workers inside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)New research has found a direct link between Facebook use and a “worsening” in reports of anxiety and depression among college students.The , published by the American Economic Review, discovered that in the first two and a half years of the platform’s existence, college students who had an account on the site were 7 percent more likely to suffer from depression, and 20% more likely to suffer from anxiety.Facebook’s initial 2004 rollout was staggered, with Harvard...…home pageThis Dec. 13, 2011, photo shows workers inside Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)New research has found a direct link between Facebook use and a “worsening” in reports of anxiety and depression among college students.The , published by the American Economic Review, discovered that in the first two and a half years of the platform’s existence, college students who had an account on the site were 7 percent more likely to suffer from depression, and 20% more likely to suffer from anxiety.Facebook’s initial 2004 rollout was staggered, with Harvard...WW…

home pageIsraeli soldiers block the entrence to the Jalamah checkpoint near the West Bank city of Jenin, September 14, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)Israeli authorities were set Sunday to reopen two checkpoints between Israel and the northern West Bank, which were closed last week after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at troops along the security barrier, killing a senior officer.Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians, widely known by its acronym COGAT, announced Saturday that the Jalamah and Salem checkpoints would reopen Sunday, following an assessment held by Defense Minister...…home pageIsraeli soldiers block the entrence to the Jalamah checkpoint near the West Bank city of Jenin, September 14, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)Israeli authorities were set Sunday to reopen two checkpoints between Israel and the northern West Bank, which were closed last week after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at troops along the security barrier, killing a senior officer.Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians, widely known by its acronym COGAT, announced Saturday that the Jalamah and Salem checkpoints would reopen Sunday, following an assessment held by Defense Minister...WW…

home pageA worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed, August 31, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)Two bills to legalize cannabis use passed their preliminary readings in the Knesset on Wednesday ahead of the three votes required for them to become law, as lawmakers from the ultra-Orthodox parties absented themselves from the votes.A law to decriminalize consumption passed 61-11, and legislation regulating how cannabis may be bought and sold was approved 53-12.If the bills become law — they are expected to be combined into one...…home pageA worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed, August 31, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)Two bills to legalize cannabis use passed their preliminary readings in the Knesset on Wednesday ahead of the three votes required for them to become law, as lawmakers from the ultra-Orthodox parties absented themselves from the votes.A law to decriminalize consumption passed 61-11, and legislation regulating how cannabis may be bought and sold was approved 53-12.If the bills become law — they are expected to be combined into one...WW…

home pagePalestinian medical employees disinfect Palestinian workers who came back from working in Israel at the entrance to the West Bank village of Hussan, on March 29, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)In another sign that the coronavirus crisis is receding, the Defense Ministry reopened Israel’s economy to Palestinian workers on Sunday.Some 14,500 workers entered Israel from the West Bank Sunday morning, out of 39,000 total permits granted by Israeli authorities.The workers are returning to jobs frozen for over a month, after the West Bank and much of Israel’s economy went into lockdown to stem...…home pagePalestinian medical employees disinfect Palestinian workers who came back from working in Israel at the entrance to the West Bank village of Hussan, on March 29, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)In another sign that the coronavirus crisis is receding, the Defense Ministry reopened Israel’s economy to Palestinian workers on Sunday.Some 14,500 workers entered Israel from the West Bank Sunday morning, out of 39,000 total permits granted by Israeli authorities.The workers are returning to jobs frozen for over a month, after the West Bank and much of Israel’s economy went into lockdown to stem...WW…