MidEast

A soccer player in the English Football League is proudly displaying his faith with a unique haircut. In an apparent reaction to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, Tomer Hemed, a striker with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., posted a photo of himself last week with...

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Fortune magazine last week released a list of “50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution,” and the prestigious list includes three hot Israeli companies in the artificial intelligence sector: Logz.io, Voyager Labs, and Zebra Medical Vision. Fortune’s infographic includes only six countries and features an equal number of notable AI companies...

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An Israeli rock star and his Iranian counterpart performed together in Tel Aviv on Thursday, sharing a message of unity with some 6,000 spectators. Israel’s Aviv Geffen and Iran’s Shahin Najaf sang two songs to the cheering crowd, alternating between Hebrew and Farsi, NBC News reported. The audience at the Tel Aviv...

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Israel has been exporting gas to Jordan since January, it was announced on Thursday. Yossi Abu, CEO of Israeli company Delek Drilling, said that “since early this year we started to export, it’s not huge quantities, but it’s still an export to Jordan.” Delek and American company Noble Energy hold...

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The tech giant Apple sees Israel as the ideal place to develop its next major innovation: Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook called AR a “big idea” that could be available to everyone, industry newsletter Apple Insider reported Tuesday. Steven Milunovich, an analyst at the investment firm...

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A growing number of Muslim Arab-Israelis are enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces despite the disapproval of their communities, NBC reported Sunday. “There is more openness among Arab Muslims that are not Bedouins to volunteer and join the army,” said Col. Wagdi Sarhan, the head of the IDF’s minorities unit. “We’re...

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