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Iran

A United States cybersecurity firm has identified a “highly active” group of hackers reportedly based in Iran, who are attacking corporate and government networks across the Middle East, The Hill reported Wednesday. A report issued by Symantec said that the hacking collective, which has been dubbed “Leafminer,” has attacked networks...

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Israel

A leading international rating agency has raised its rating outlook for the economy of Israel from “stable” to “positive”, despite the volatile security situation in the region. The rating for now remains unchanged, however, with an upgrade in outlook Israel’s rating could be upgraded in the next 12-18 months for...

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Two United States officials blasted the Palestinian Authority’s leadership for failing to condemn terror, following a fatal terror attack that left a 31-year-old father of two dead, and two others injured. Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, called the terror attack in the West Bank community of Adam...

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Zebra Medical Vision of Kibbutz Shefayim has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its automatic coronary calcium scoring algorithm, an artificial-intelligence tool that helps physicians assess the risk of coronary artery disease. The algorithm can detect and quantify the presence of calcium, or plaque, in coronary...

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Iran

Responding to a tweet earlier this week, in which United States President Donald Trump warned Iran not to threaten the U.S., Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani threatened that in a war with Iran the U.S. would suffer an “annihilation of all your means,” Iran’s semi-official PressTV...

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Europe

Asserting that the election of a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party into power in the United Kingdom would pose an “existential threat” to the Jewish community in the UK, the three leading Jewish newspapers ran a shared editorial titled “United we Stand,” on Wednesday. In the jointly authored editorial, The Jewish News,...

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Israel

Israel struck Hamas targets in Gaza after an IDF soldier was ambushed, shot and wounded near the border, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Following the ambush, Israel targeted seven Hamas sites with tank and artillery fire. Three members of Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades were reported killed in those strikes. In...

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Diplomacy

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday called the religious leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran “hypocritical holy men,” who amassed a fortune while ordinary Iranians are suffering extreme hardship. “Sometimes it seems the world has become desensitized to the regime’s authoritarianism at home and its campaigns...

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Many cancer patients die not from the primary malignant tumor, but rather the spread of lingering cancer cells to other parts of the body, known as metastasis. The so-called “smart probe” developed by a team of Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers may be able to help surgeons pinpoint cancer cells...

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MidEast

It began as yet another frustrating example of a university refusing to take swift action in a case of aggressive disruption of a pro-Israel event. The belligerent shutdown of a Students Supporting Israel panel discussion occurred at the University of California-Los Angeles on May 17, 2018. That incident has skyrocketed...

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