Israel Faces Blood Shortage Following Holiday Season

Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service, has asked the Israeli public to donate blood due to a projected upcoming shortage of all blood types over the Shavuot [Pentecost] holiday this week.

Teva’s Parkinson Drug Now Available in Japan

Japan’s largest pharmaceutical company, Takeda, recently signed an agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries to commercialize the Israeli company’s innovative treatment for Parkinson’s disease, rasagiline, in Japan. The rasagiline tablets, which are approved in over 40 countries for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, gained UK and EU-marketing authorization in 2005 and US FDA approval in 2006. […]

The Right-Wing in Europe: Neo-Nazis?

he continuing rise of the various right-wing parties in Europe, often derisively dismissed as “far-right” or even “neo-Nazi” by their opponents, has been a clear trend for a number of years now and is certainly a force to be reckoned with.

Palestinians: BDS Activists Are Troublemakers, Criminals

At university campuses in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, they are hailed as heroes campaigning for Palestinian rights. But in Ramallah, ironically, activists belonging to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] movement are seen by the Palestinian Authority [PA] as trouble-makers and law-breakers.