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Wix, a globally successful do-it-yourself web development platform recently named “hottest Middle Eastern startup” by Inc. magazine, will air its first-ever Super Bowl ad during NBC’s broadcast of Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, February 1. The Israeli company has run direct-response TV advertising campaigns for the past two years in the US,...

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Iran has made no significant concessions in its negotiations over its nuclear program, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said today. Steinitz made his remarks in a conference call organized by The Israel Project, which publishes The Tower. A recording of the call is available here. Steinitz noted that Iran has made “some...

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The incidence of strokes and death in the wake of strokes have declined dramatically in the last 24 years, but according to a new study from Israel, the progress is not consistent across all age groups. Researchers from Israel and the United States discovered that while there has been a...

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The Fatah movement and Palestinian Authority officials are giving contradictory messages following the murder of five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue. While Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, one of his senior advisors and the official Facebook page of Fatah praised the attack, in which two Palestinians shot...

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Secretary of State John Kerry strongly condemned this morning’s terror attack in Jerusalem (video embedded below), calling it “a pure result of incitement.” The Associated Press reports: Kerry, who spoke Tuesday before, noted that Israel had acted to calm the situation by easing age restrictions on Muslim worshippers at the...

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At least four people were killed and six injured in a terror attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood Tuesday morning. Two terrorists, apparently from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue around 7 a.m. during morning prayers and attacked worshipers with a...

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