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The Bank of Israel on Tuesday revealed its updated designs for the 20 and 100 shekel bills, which feature the portraits of Hebrew-language female poets, The Times of Israel reported. Although former Prime Minister Golda Meir was featured on the NIS 10 bill, which was issued in 1985 and circulated until the...

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British Prime Minister Theresa May will welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to London next week for the first meeting between the two leaders. Netanyahu is expected to fly to London on Sunday evening to meet with May on Monday. Not only will it be their first meeting since May entered Downing...

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As computer devices and the “Internet of Things” continue to break new boundaries and create changes to our lifestyle, new cybersecurity mechanisms to defend our tech-savvy lives are crucial. “Not many years ago, computers were far away. Then they came to our desktops, then to our laptops, and then to...

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The world’s yellow-tailed woolly monkey population is critically endangered and repeatedly features on a list of the top 25 most endangered primates. Now, a new Israeli-led conservationist project will ensure this rare primate species will have a protected land area in the Peruvian Andes, safe from deforestation and poaching. This...

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A Canadian trade school that originally told an Israeli potential student that it would not accept him because of his nationality has rescinded its boycott of Israelis, the school’s manager of student services told The Tower on Tuesday. Israeli civil engineering student and amateur carpenter Stav Daron wanted to sign...

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Newly-installed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that Israel should not be discriminated against in the General Assembly. In an interview with Benny Avni of Israel’s Channel 2, Guterres said that in the General Assembly, “Israel needs to be considered as a state as the same as all the others with...

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