MidEast

After the Russian government announced earlier this week that it was lifting its internal ban on shipping the S-300 missile systems to Iran, an analysis in The Daily Beast published Wednesday asserted that Iran, like Russia, would be able to use those systems as offensive weapons, in violation of UN...

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A top State Department official said Tuesday that the United States is aware of increased Iranian involvement in the civil war currently taking place in Yemen, and is “’looking at ways’ to ensure a long-standing United Nations Security Council arms embargo on Iran is enforced,” The Hill reported yesterday. Gerald...

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The next 9/11-style terror attack will be perpetrated by hackers infiltrating an air traffic control system or other critical infrastructure, according to Col. (res.) Dr. Gabi Siboni, director of the Cyber Security Program at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The Times of Israel reported  on Siboni’s assessment Wednesday. “Computer hackers...

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Speaking at a ceremony commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a speech delivered Wednesday evening at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum that the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran showed that the West had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, Ynet reported: The Israeli prime minister...

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A particular protein that defies the cell’s normal system of tagging and banishing defective or no longer needed proteins seems to play a significant role in suppressing malignant growth, according to Israeli researchers. The study was conducted at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Professor Aaron Ciechanover,...

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Apple purchased an Israeli digital photography startup to help improve the camera in the iPhone, which has been challenged by other smartphones’ camera capabilities, The Times of Israel reported today: On his recent trip to Israel, Apple CEO Tim Cook predicted that the company would make new acquisitions in the near future – and...

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