The Genesis spacecraft crashed due to a sensor failure that created a cascading effect leading to the main engine shutdown minutes before touchdown. An initial investigation into last week’s failed landing of the Israeli lunar module Beresheet (or, “Genesis”) has found that a technical malfunction led to the main engine’s shutdown during the critical last minutes [...]
Although Israel's Sunni jihadist Hamas neighbors to the country's southwest may take up more international headlines, it is Israel's Shiite jihadist Hezbollah neighbors to the country's Lebanese (and, of a more recent vintage, Syrian) north that many feel poses a greater long-term challenge to Israel's national security interests. Hezbollah, after all, is a proxy of the terrorist Iranian regime and is exceedingly well-armed [...]
The European Union has rejected the idea of Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank, which would create chaos and violence in the Middle East, its foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Such a move would destroy the possibility of a two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mogherini said, adding [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the testing of a new type of tactical guided weapon on Wednesday, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Thursday. It is North Korea's first public weapons test since the second US-North Korea summit in Hanoi ended with no agreement in February. KCNA did not describe exactly [...]
Ateret Cohanim (Crown of Priests) is a non-profit organization with one of the holiest missions: they are actively strengthening Jewish roots centered around educational institutes in and around the Old City and working toward creating greater Jewish life in neighborhoods that today are devoid of such life. Some of these properties were formerly owned by Jews [...]
Hamas threatened Israel that if it does not agree to a ceasefire, the terror group will disrupt the Eurovision song contest slated to be held in Tel Aviv next month. Hamas terror group operatives circulated a clip on social media in which they state that Hamas will not allow the Eurovision to take place as long [...]
Palestinian Foreign Minister Maliki says the PA is prepared to hold an Abbas-Netanyahu summit, but only if Russia hosts the meeting. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on imposing Israeli law on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and in anticipation of the U.S. publication of its “Deal of the Century” for Israeli-Palestinian peace, the [...]
1,600 years after the edict of the Emperor Theodosius II led to the abolishment of the post of the Nasi prince of the Sanhedrin, a group of school students found rare evidence reflecting this dramatic moment in Jewish history. In February 2019, four ninth-grade students on a navigation hike in the fields alongside the Zippori stream [...]
For the first time ever, Israeli scientists have created a vascularized human heart that completely matches the immunological, cellular, biochemical and anatomical properties of a human patient, using a 3D printer. Until now, scientists in regenerative medicine – a field that integrates biology and technology – have been successful in printing only simple tissues without blood [...]
“Meanwhile, a widespread decline in churchgoing and religious affiliation had contributed to growing anxiety among conservative believers.” Statements like this are uttered with such confidence and frequency that most Americans accept them as uncontested truisms. Is churchgoing and religious adherence really in “widespread decline” so much so that conservative believers should suffer “growing anxiety”? Two words: Absolutely [...]
