Israel

Israel-based Wix.com was one of 15 businesses that bought Super Bowl ads for the first time Sunday. Bloomberg News reports: In Wix’s ad, the football players open fictional small businesses with matching websites. Favre, who won the championship with the Green Bay Packers in 1997, starts a charcuterie store (Favre...

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An international team of researchers has just revealed its discovery of a rare 55,000-year-old partial skull in a cave in northern Israel. Their report, “Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans,” suggests that this find provides new clues about the migration of modern humans out...

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Prof. William Schabas, the controversial head of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission charged with investigating charges of war crimes alleged against Israel during Operation Protective Edge last summer, has resigned amid growing indications of bias. Reuters reports: In a letter to the commission, a copy of which was seen...

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In an essay for Politico Magazine, former State Department advisor Aaron David Miller called the American-Israeli diplomatic relationship “too big to fail.” Among other observations, Miller writes that the current turmoil in the Middle East underscores America’s “need for traditional friends who are able to offer stability,” and that with...

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In a letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, a bipartisan majority of 75 senators pressed the administration to oppose the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) attempts to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). The senators declared that PA President Abbas’ “effort contravenes the spirit of earlier agreements between...

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Employees of Israel Aerospace Industries last week gathered to pose for a “space selfie” (embedded video below) Yahoo! News reported Friday. Three hundred employees from Israel Aerospace Industries, or IAI, arranged themselves to spell out the company’s initials, for what they call a space selfie. That’s because the selfie was...

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