Israel

The Israeli Hyfit Wearable Gym

Getting serious about getting into shape? You could invest in a gym membership or a basement full of workout equipment, but it’s hard to stay with the program unless you have sufficient time, access, motivation and feedback. Two ambitious young Israelis set out to solve that problem with a product...

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President Rivlin in Cyprus

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin paid a brief visit to Cyprus and hailed the alliance between the two nations, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. Rivlin, the third Israeli president to visit the island nation — previously Ezer Weizman visited in 1998 and Shimon Peres in 2011 — was received by President...

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Rep. Ilhan Omar

Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) offered an apology after the House Democratic leadership rebuked her for tweeting that Jews pay politicians to support Israel, The New York Times reported Monday. In a tweet earlier this week about possible action that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R – Calif.)...

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ACLU Supports anti-Israel activists

The ACLU, one of the premier civil rights advocacy groups in the United States, has allowed anti-Israel ideology to push it to “undermine the antidiscrimination norms it has worked for decades to achieve,” Eugene Kontorovich wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street Journal. Kontorovich, an expert in international law,...

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Sing out! In the same spirit that only a few weeks ago launched a thousand images documenting Israel’s history for free use, the National Library of Israel, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and the Digital Finjan project, have announced the release of Shiri, a mobile phone...

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The growing hostility of the progressive community toward the existence of Israel has become “profoundly unsettling” to American Jews, Bret Stephens wrote in a column for The New York Times published Friday. Stephens recalled a number of recent incidents that showed the growing acceptance of the “radical left’s militant hostility...

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