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Israeli software is being used by agricultural giant Monsanto and others to identify the plant traits that produce higher-yielding crops, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. NRGene, an Israeli firm that developed the genomic big-data technology, is working with Monsanto and Syngenta, a Swiss seeds and pesticides group, to identify traits that can...

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A regional court in the German city of Wuppertal upheld a lower court’s ruling that a 2014 firebombing of a synagogue was not an anti-Semitic incident, but a way to criticize Israeli policies, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Three German Palestinians were convicted in 2015 of...

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Interest in Israeli children’s snacking habits, particularly peanut butter-flavored Bamba puffs, skyrocketed over the weekend as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. issued a new clinical guideline that calls on parents to feed infants peanut-laden foods in order to prevent peanut allergies in the future. The new Addendum Guidelines...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the first holder of his office to visit Israel, to Jerusalem on Thursday. I am pleased to be the first Jamaican Prime Minister to visit Israel. There are numerous opportunities for cooperation between us. pic.twitter.com/clQqLEL0F3 — Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM)...

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A United States district court ruled Tuesday that Iran and Syria must pay $178 million in damages to the family of a three-month-old baby who was killed in an October 2014 terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Chaya Zissel Braun, who held both American and Israeli citizenship, was killed when Abd al-Rahman al-Shaloudi,...

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BrighTap, an Israeli-made smart water meter sensor that monitors water quality and consumption, recently took first place in the 2016 Startup Open competition, run by the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN). BrighTap, a product made by BwareIT, is an Internet-of-things (IOT) meter that can be attached to any standard water tap,...

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