MidEast

Hamas praised a car-ramming attack that injured two Israeli soldiers, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. An IDF officer was seriously injured, and a border policeman received light injuries when they were rammed by a car during an arrest operation in the West Bank. The two had been conducting arrest raids in the...

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THAAD anti-Missile System

The United States has deployed a state-of-the-art missile defense system in Israel, ahead of joint training exercises in the use of the system, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is being deployed by the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) “as a demonstration of the United States’...

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A ballad to remember Edyka

This is deeply personal. But what I have experienced should resonate with the entire Jewish community — the one we know and the one to come. In the whirlwind that seizes me and all who are communally aware, I have reached a new and stunning personal location, wedged between the...

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Israeli AI Platform to Track Diseases

A novel artificial intelligence (AI) platform for monitoring and predicting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases was unveiled in Israel by BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev. Meant for identifying markers for personalized treatment and drug development, the platform was developed by Prof. Boaz Lerner...

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Beresheet on its way to the moon

Beresheet, Israel’s privately-backed spacecraft that was launched on its historic journey to the moon last week, has completed a significant maneuver and appears to be back on track, despite an earlier glitch, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. If successful, Israel will be the fourth nation to reach the moon, following...

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Former Argentinian Pres. Menem Acquitted of Charges that he Obstructed AMIA Investigation

A court in Argentina convicted five people and acquitted eight others, including a former president, for their roles in obstructing the investigation into the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. Former President Carlos Menem, who ruled Argentina from 1989 to 1999,...

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