Israel

Team Israel stunned the host South Korean team to open the 2017 World Baseball Classic with a 2-1 victory in 10 innings Monday evening. Definitely the most stressful game I've ever been a part of. But it was worth it. #teamisrael — Ty Kelly (@tykelly11) March 6, 2017 With a...

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Fortune magazine last week released a list of “50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution,” and the prestigious list includes three hot Israeli companies in the artificial intelligence sector: Logz.io, Voyager Labs, and Zebra Medical Vision. Fortune’s infographic includes only six countries and features an equal number of notable AI companies...

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Elections For Me, But Not for Thee The Palestinian Authority announced on Tuesday that scheduled municipal elections in May would only take place in the West Bank, thus excluding the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that “the West Bank government’s decision… amounts to reinforcing the split” between the terror...

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An Israeli rock star and his Iranian counterpart performed together in Tel Aviv on Thursday, sharing a message of unity with some 6,000 spectators. Israel’s Aviv Geffen and Iran’s Shahin Najaf sang two songs to the cheering crowd, alternating between Hebrew and Farsi, NBC News reported. The audience at the Tel Aviv...

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Israel has been exporting gas to Jordan since January, it was announced on Thursday. Yossi Abu, CEO of Israeli company Delek Drilling, said that “since early this year we started to export, it’s not huge quantities, but it’s still an export to Jordan.” Delek and American company Noble Energy hold...

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The tech giant Apple sees Israel as the ideal place to develop its next major innovation: Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook called AR a “big idea” that could be available to everyone, industry newsletter Apple Insider reported Tuesday. Steven Milunovich, an analyst at the investment firm...

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