Israel

Israeli Paralympic table-tennis player Karmit Dor won a gold medal in the Czech Open Championship last weekend, in which 150 athletes participated. Dor overcame Poland’s Karolina Peck in the Women’s Singles Class 10 final in a close match (4-11, 12-10, 11-5, 9-11, 13-11). Peck went into the tournament ranked third...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Argentina on Monday on the first leg of a groundbreaking diplomatic tour that will also include Colombia and Mexico. Netanyahu has called the visit, the first to Latin America by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister, “historic.” He is travelling with a large business delegation...

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Israeli humanitarian-aid groups are already on their way to Florida after Hurricane Irma made landfall this Sunday and threatened the state with tornadoes, catastrophic storm surges, and strong winds and flooding. Other Israeli aid teams are making their way to Mexico, which was hit by a deadly earthquake on Thursday night,...

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The head of Israel’s General Security Service briefed the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday about the scale of the current terrorist threat. Nadav Argaman, head of the Shin Bet, told Government ministers that Israel has prevented 200 terrorist attacks from more than 70 local terrorist cells since the beginning of 2017. Argaman...

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How did an Israeli startup evolve from using radio frequency (RF) technology intended to detect breast cancer to creating palm-sized devices that can monitor passengers in self-driving cars? That’s the remarkable story of Vayyar Imaging, which is building a multi-purpose sensor with real-life uses that sound straight out of science...

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Conan O’Brien, the comedian and popular late night television host, said on his recent trip to Israel that the doctors at a northern Israeli hospital who treat Syrian patients deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. O’Brien was in Israel to produce a segment for an ongoing series called Conan Without Borders. For...

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