If a new Israeli product from IonMed gets market approval, surgeons will have a revolutionary tool in their hands for scar-free incision closure.

Women giving birth by Caesarean section could be the first to benefit from a revolutionary Israeli invention for closing surgical incisions without stitches or staples. The technique also promises to leave patients less prone to infection and scarring. BioWeld1, a unique trademarked product from Israeli startup IonMed, welds surgical incisions using...

Acquisition comes after months of speculation involving reported negotiations with Facebook and Apple.

After months of rumors and speculation as to which global technology giant would charm Israel’s homegrown traffic crowd-sourcer Waze into a partnership, Google emerged victorious on Tuesday, announcing in a blog post that it had acquired the app.   Both Apple and Facebook had reportedly entered negotiations with the Ra’anana-based company in the past year, but failed to...

Israel has allegedly reiterated its warnings to Syria over the Golan Heights, threatening the IDF will attack Syrian tanks on its border.

Israel has allegedly reiterated its warnings to Syria over activity in the Golan Heights, threatening in a document sent to the United Nations the IDF will attack Syrian tanks on its border.   Jerusalem allegedly sent the warning to the U.N. Security Council via Herve Ladsous, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations (UNDOF), according...

Colonel Haimovich says Israel ready to fend off attack from Syria, says Israel tracks every heavy missile fired in Syrian war.

Israel tracks every heavy missile fired in the Syrian civil war, keen to study Damascus's combat doctrines and deployments and ready to fend off a feared first attack on its turf, a senior Israeli military officer said on Thursday.   Colonel Zvika Haimovich of the air defense corps said southward launches against Syrian insurgents by President Bashar...

Eshel says S-300 missile defense system "on the way" to Syria.

A day after the IDF and the Syrian Army exchanged fire in the Golan Heights, Israel Air Force chief Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel warned that Israel must be prepared for a "surprise war" developing.   Addressing a national security conference in Herzliya held by the Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies,  Eshel stated that "a surprise war can develop today in many forms. Isolated...

Paris seeks to purchase drones from J'lem "straight away."

Israel is the largest exporter of drones in the world, a leading industry consultancy firm announced Sunday.   In the past eight years, sales of Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles have totaled 4.62 billion dollars, according to figures.

The company said it included in its calculations products, services and licenses sold to other countries that enable them to produce their own drones. Those type of transactions...

In the not-so-distant future, people blinded by retinitis pigmentosa may be using Israeli technology to see beyond shadows once again.

About one in 4,000 people in the United States suffers from retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a genetic disease of the retina that causes light-sensing cells to degenerate and eventually leads to vision impairment. Symptoms might start as night blindness.   Recent advances in optogenetics have opened the possibility of restoring light sensitivity to vision cells...

Two of the four soldiers who were hospitalized in an attack on an IDF unit near Hevron were released Wednesday night

Two of the four soldiers who were hospitalized in an attack on an IDF unit near Hevron were released Wednesday night, but two are still being treated. The four were injured when Arabs attacked an IDF jeep with firebombs in the village of Hursa, near Hevron, during the Shavuot holiday Wednesday, causing it to overturn and catch fire. Two of the soldiers were treated for second...