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As the race heats up toward the launch of autonomous vehicles, state-of-the-art technologies like ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) are being designed to prevent collisions. But motorcycles have been largely overlooked in the process. According to a 2018 US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report, fatalities in traffic crashes occur...

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According to watchdog group, Transparency International (TI), Israel ranks as one of the nations most effective in enforcing anti-bribery laws, Globes reported Wednesday. According to TI, in the three years since it issued its last report, Israel has gone from lowest ranking in fighting bribery to the highest. While Israel...

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Israel has played a central role in alleviating the suffering of Syria’s civilian population, often at great risk to their own, Joshua S. Block., CEO & President of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published in the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. His comments come at a time when the...

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Diplomacy

In an interview with Chris Ingram of News Talk Florida, Kenneth Bricker, The Israel Project’s Senior Press Associate, characterized the Trump administration’s recent decision to close the PLO offices as a message to the Palestinian Authority, which has refused to negotiate with Israel in recent years, that “the double game is...

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Noorina is five years old and lives in Afghanistan. In July, her father brought her to Israel for lifesaving heart surgery arranged by Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), an Israeli medical charity based at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. When she is older, Noorina may be surprised to learn that an...

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Diplomacy

The Czech president, prime minister, speaker of parliament, and foreign and defense ministers issued a joint statement endorsing the nation’s move of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. In April, President Miloš Zeman announced that the Czech Republic would begin the process of...

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Iran

Following the recent attacks on Kurdish targets as well as American interests in Iraq by Iranian proxies, the White House issued a statement saying that it would hold Iran “accountable” for injuries to American personnel or damage to United States facilities and that it would act “decisively” against such attacks,...

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The United Nations reported Wednesday that the Assad regime in Syria continues to use chemical weapons against civilian targets, including three chlorine gas attacks on a rebel-held Damascus suburb and on Idlib province this year that constitute war crimes, The Jerusalem Post reported. The latest evidence brings to 39 the...

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Water filtration systems from Israeli company NUFiltration were donated to Cameroon to help fight a cholera epidemic there. As ISRAEL21c reported in July, NUFiltration acquires and sterilizes used kidney dialysis filters that would otherwise be discarded and repurposes them in several filtration products. One of these products, meant especially for hard-to-reach rural areas of...

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On April 16, the Durham City Council passed the Israel Resolution making Durham the first city in the United States to boycott police trainings specifically with Israel – the only Jewish majority country on the planet. It matters because, as I write this, there are efforts under way to bring...

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