Deborah Danan

TEL AVIV – An Israeli biotech company is developing an engineered micro-pancreas (EMP) to safeguard transplanted insulin-producing beta cells and eventually cure diabetes, ISRAEL21c reported. In addition to regulating type 1 diabetes, Betalin Therapeutics’ tissue-engineering invention also has the potential

TEL AVIV – ZAKA, Israel’s emergency response service, slammed the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) decision to treat the most severely wounded person at the scene of a terror attack – even if that person is the terrorist – saying, “No

TEL AVIV – Columnists at Egyptian daily Al-Watan are calling for Egypt to launch preemptive strikes in Libya against the Islamic State, for fear that the terror group will attack Egyptian soil. The articles, translated by MEMRI,  were both published

TEL AVIV – A new report highlights the Arab media’s response to the growing number of Palestinian women involved in the current wave of terror against Israelis.

Number one celebrity boycotter of Israel, Roger Waters, attended a conference hosted by Israel’s leftwing Haaretz newspaper in New York, triggering extreme reactions from an angry Israeli public.

TEL AVIV – Religious LGBT Jews are coming out online in the first campaign of its kind, Israeli news website Ynet reported.  An estimated 44 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender religiously observant Jews are posting photos, names, and sexual orientation

TEL AVIV – In light of the alarming number of young Jordanians joining terrorist organizations like the Islamic State, Jordanian educators and officials are calling for an overhaul of the country’s “extremist” school curricula. According to unofficial statistics, about 4,000

TEL AVIV – A new Israeli-invented social network allows users to pose questions directly to hi-tech superstars, ISRAEL21c reported.  Called yes.no, the platform was designed to circumvent the often one-sided nature of conventional social networks by inviting users to ask questions

TEL AVIV – For the first time in a century, Turkey’s Jewish community openly celebrated Hanukkah on Sunday with a candle-lighting ceremony in a main square in Istanbul, Turkey’s English-language newspaper the Daily Sabah reported.  The celebration was organized by

TEL AVIV – Two Saudi men who protested against a woman poet’s recital were forcibly removed from the literary event by security officers. A video clip of the incident shows a man standing up in protest of the Saudi poet, Ashjan Al Hindi, as she recited a poem at the Jeddah International Book Fair.

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian judge postponed the trial of 739 people accused of murder because the courtroom cage was too small, the Independent reported.  Judge Hassan Farid said he received instructions from the Cairo security directorate telling him to

TEL AVIV – From Morocco to Saudi Arabia, the conspiracy that the US, Europe and Israel are behind the creation of the Islamic State and subsequent terror attacks is gaining more and more prevalence, especially in Arab media. Over the past couple of

TEL AVIV – The first doctor in Egypt ever to be convicted for female genital mutilation never went to prison and is still a doctor who practices FGM on girls and women, with the protection of Egypt’s police and justice system, it has emerged.

TEL AVIV – Member of Knesset Miki Zohar presented a bill on Thursday to prevent automatic access to pornographic sites on the Internet.

Israel’s annual poverty report released Wednesday by the National Insurance Institute shows that 776,500 Israeli children were living in poverty in 2014, an across the board increase from 2013.  The number of Israeli families below the poverty line rose from 18.6 percent