Israel

Three rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel today, causing no injuries. The rockets came on the fourth day of a five-day security drill to make sure Israeli security systems work in case of rocket attacks from Hezbollah or Hamas. The Times of Israel reported: The Israel Defense Forces said two rockets...

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None of the issues that last year’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement were supposed to address have been solved, according to a policy brief written yesterday by Grant Rumley, a research analyst for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies. The decision of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to join a unity government...

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The document-sharing website and application Dropbox has selected Addalom, an Israeli cloud computing firm, to take charge of security for its Dropbox for Business initiative, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported today. Shamah wrote that a top security firm was necessary because Dropbox for Business users need to be “110% positive...

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Israeli academics are seeing signs of an undeclared boycott against them, Ha’aretz reported today. These signs include turning down invitations to attend conferences held in Israel, ignoring requests to write recommendation letters for Israeli scholars seeking promotions, and rejecting submissions from Israeli scholars in peer-reviewed journals. Hostility toward Israel is...

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When Elly Gorodetzer’s mother fell off an escalator in the mall, first responders noticed the MyMDband on her wrist and scanned its QR code to access her medical profile, at the same time automatically alerting her loved ones of the incident’s location. No doubt the woman is grateful to her son...

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Narendra Modi, who was elected prime minister of India last year, will be the first Indian leader to visit Israel, The Times of India reported today. Narendra Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to travel to Israel, a visit that will finally bring one of the world’s close...

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