Jessica Alba has been a Krav Maga fan for years. But now the Mechanic: Resurrection star is crediting the official self-defense system of the Israel Defense Forces for her ability to perform her own stunts in the new action-thriller. “I did all my stunts for Mechanic: Resurrection. Hand-to-hand combat is where...
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A number of top American sports teams recently sent representatives to scout the latest sensors and video technologies created by Israeli companies, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The technology presentations in New York and San Francisco were arranged by the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry and the Israel Export Institute. Teams...
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After representatives from Hamas and the Iranian government met in Beirut on Friday, the two parties promised to work together to unite the Muslim world to face the “Zionist danger” together, Ma’an News reported. Ali Baraka, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, was received at the Iranian embassy in Beirut by the embassy’s head consul,...
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A Gaza journalist was arrested by Hamas on Thursday, Ynet reported, becoming the latest Palestinian media member to have been detained by the Iran-backed terror group this year. The arrest came the day after Human Rights Watch (HRW) blasted Hamas for its abuse of the media in a wide-ranging report. Mohammed Othman, a correspondent for Al-Monitor, was...
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Iran will be boosting its military budget using the $1.7 billion it received in January from the U.S. Treasury Department, Foundation for Defense of Democracies associate fellow Saeed Ghasseminejad wrote in a policy brief Thursday, citing Iranian media reports. The process of allocating the funds, which the White House has said was to settle...
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Freightos, an Israeli company that set up the world’s first marketplace for international shipping, has purchased a Spanish competitor, the Jerusalem-based organization announced on Wednesday. The purchase of WebCargoNet will help the it create the “world’s largest freight Big Data database” for companies seeking the best price to ship cargo by air, land...
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