MidEast

Jewish leaders have slammed the University of Maryland’s Student Government Association (SGA) for holding a vote on a pro-boycott resolution on April 24, in the middle of Passover. The student body is expected to urge the school “to divest from companies engaged in human-rights violations in Palestine” and is supported...

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Beijing Capital International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world with more over 100 million passengers passing through in 2018, has selected an Israeli technology to improve runway safety, efficiency and capacity. Tel Aviv-based Xsight Systems’ foreign object debris (FOD) detection solution, RunWize, uses sophisticated image and radar-processing...

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Social media giant Instagram has suspended the accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). While Khamenei’s English account was suspended, his Farsi one remains active. The accounts were shut down on Tuesday, a day after the...

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The State of Texas has started to divest $72 million worth of stock in a Norwegian company that reportedly boycotts Israel to comply with a 2017 law. The move is the first action taken under the bill, which prohibits state agencies from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. Two major...

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The Old City of Jerusalem and its walls are a UNESCO World Heritage site and the most visited place in the State of Israel, with some 10 million yearly visitors. But navigating the narrow, crowded cobblestoned lanes and uneven stone stairs is hard or impossible for anyone with difficulty walking,...

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Israel was created to fulfill the ancient promise of the Prophet Jeremiah: “Your children will return to their own land” (31:17). Jews from 130 countries who speak more than 100 different languages have immigrated to Israel. Nearly 70 years after its founding, Israel is a technological powerhouse, in part because...

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