A bridge in Beersheva’s Gav Yam high-tech park was chosen as the winner in the long-span category of the triannual Footbridge Awards, at the Footbridge 2017 conference held in Berlin, Germany recently. The Beersheva High-Tech Park Bridge, nicknamed the double-helix bridge or the DNA bridge because of its unusual design,...

Former Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, along with 14 others, were summoned on Monday to testify before the Argentinian federal judge that is investigating her administration’s role in hiding Iran’s involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, The Algemeiner reported. Judge Claudio Bonadio’s request was based on the...

Israeli intelligence officials warned the United States about Russian hackers breaking into their information security, using Kaspersky Lab antivirus software. The U.S. government recently prohibited federal agencies from using the company’s products, a software used by 400 million people globally, after it emerged that Russian operators had morphed the program...

The United States announced multi-million dollar rewards for information on two Hezbollah operatives, and the top U.S. counterterror official said that intelligence agencies have assessed that Hezbollah is “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, at a State Department briefing Tuesday. Nathan Sales, Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, announced that the State Department...

Israeli companies have received a grant to develop their novel remote monitoring and control system for first-responder teams in the United States and Israel. As both manmade and natural disasters become increasingly lethal global phenomena (whether a terror attack or a hurricane), robotically controlled search-and-rescue systems fill in the “capability...

The University of California-Berkeley has introduced a new policy on campus events that encourages a “double standard” against pro-Israel groups, Shiri Moshe reported in The Algemeiner on Monday. The university put on hold a speech by renowned civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz over a new “viewpoint-neutral” measure that requires campus student...

In possible violation of the 2015 nuclear deal, German intelligence charged that Iran made 32 attempts last year to obtain technology that could be used for proliferation programs, including chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. According to one intelligence report Iran made “32 procurement attempts … that definitely or with high likelihood...

Qatar’s former culture minister, who has disseminated anti-Semitic material, both in the course of his official duties and personally, is a leading candidate to succeed Irina Bokova as head of the UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural agency, Ben Cohen reported for the Algemeiner on Monday. Despite protests from the Simon...

An early-stage Israeli ophthalmic medical devices startup has developed a revolutionary artificial cornea implant that holds out hope to millions of blind and visually impaired people suffering from diseases of the cornea. The nanotech-based solution by CorNeat Vision of Ra’anana is a synthetic cornea that uses advanced cell technology to...

Implementing a law that designates Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group would violate the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, an IRGC general said Sunday. Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the top commander of the IRGC issued a veiled threat saying that enforcing the law that passed...