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IsraAID Support Grows for Iraq’s Christians, Yazidis

February 15, 2015 With winter temperatures a very real danger to the Christian and Yazidi refugees of Northern Iraq, the Israel-based IsraAID organization has intensified its relief efforts with more than 3,000 winter items distributed this season already.

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Israel Ranks Fifth in Bloomberg Innovation Index

February 8, 2015 Israel has risen dramatically to 5th place on Bloomberg’s Innovation Index, which each year compares nations on such measures as research and development performance, technical education, number of patents held and other marks of technological performance. Last year it was ranked 30th.

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Detecting Cancer With Israel’s SniffPhone

February 8, 2015 Professor Hossam Haick of Israel’s Technion in Haifa will soon see his cancer sniffing NaNose breathalyzer technology installed in mobile phones called SniffPhone. The device uses a micro-sized smell-sensitive sensor installed as an add-on on smart phones that combined with uniquely designed software is able to actually “smell” cancer and other serious diseases on a user’s breath.

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Hamas Calls for Attacks from Lebanon and Syria on Israel

February 8, 2015 On Wednesday, co-founder of Hamas called for Palestinian military groups in refugee camps throughout Lebanon and Syria who are loyal to Hamas, to attack Israel. Hamas continues to invest it resources in the next battle with Israel even while children are dying from exposure and families struggle to survive amid the rubble created in last summer’s war.

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Africa’s Largest Solar Field Built With and Modeled After Israeli Ingenuity

February 8, 2015 Gigawatt Global, an American-owned Dutch company with an extensive research & design branch in Israel, has just powered 15,000 homes and some 12 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. The 28,360 panel solar field built in the form of the African continent stands on land owned by the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, a kibbutz-type orphanage for victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

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UNHRC War Crimes Head William Schabas Quits

February 7, 2015 On Monday, more charges of blatant bias toward Israel were made against William Schabas, who resigned from his position as the head of the United Nation Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) “war crimes” probe of Israel. His resignation follows the latest revelations that he did consulting work for the PLO in 2012, a terrorist organization, supporting allegations that his bias against Israel prevents him from fairly conducting the probe.

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Third Industrial Revolution: Technion Gets 3D Metal Printer

February 1, 2015 A revolution in printing has arrived in Israel that is hailed as the “Third Industrial Revolution.” A 3D metal printer capable of producing metal components is operational for the first time in Israel. The Israel Institute of Metals (IMM), with a research institute linked to Israel’s Technion in Haifa, recently produced this machine that prints metal components, including those made of titanium and other metal alloys.

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Rome’s Jewish Leader Arrested at Auschwitz

February 1, 2015 On Tuesday, which was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Riccardo Pacifici, the head of Rome’s Jewish community, and Fabio Perugia, Rome's Jewish community spokesman, along with Italian journalist David Parenzo and a film crew were arrested by Polish police after trying to escape through a window at Auschwitz. Pacifici, whose grandparents died in the camp, had been filming the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the death camp with a Canale 5 film crew for the Italian TV show Matrix.

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Israeli President Diagnoses Cause and Cure of Genocide for UN General Assembly

February 1, 2015 On Wednesday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed the United Nations General Assembly as it marked the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, reminding the international body of its mission. “On this day we once again remember the essence of the mission of this institution: all-out war against genocide,” he said. He reminded the body that the UN was established on the ruins of World War II and that the call “Never again,” was “the very essence of this United Nations Organization; it is its mission; it is the primary and principal rationale for its existence.”

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Two Killed as Hezbollah Attacks Israeli Soldiers Across Lebanese Border

February 1, 2015 Last Wednesday morning, it looked as if there might be war between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah after it fired anti-tank missiles toward Mount Dov, killing Israeli soldiers Major Yohai Klinger (25) and First Sergeant Dor Nini (20). An additional seven wounded were evacuated to hospitals in the north. An early investigation revealed that a minimum of five anti-tank missiles had been fired at the IDF convoy hitting at least two army vehicles on route 999, which is a public highway, in the Shebaa Farms area of Israel. The IDF responded with artillery fire into South Lebanon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “those behind the attack will pay.”

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