Alibaba Group Holding of Hangzhou, China, is opening a research lab in Tel Aviv as part of its new global Alibaba Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook designed to increase technological collaboration worldwide, advance cutting-edge technology and narrow the technology gap among countries. The e-commerce infrastructure giant expects to...

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Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets destroyed an anti-aircraft missile battery in Syria following an attack on Israeli planes carrying out reconnaissance over Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Earlier, the SA-5 anti-aircraft battery, located about 30 miles east of Damascus, fired at Israeli planes conducting “routine” reconnaissance over Lebanon. Israel reported...

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Two rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula landed in southern Israel Sunday evening. An Israeli military spokesperson said one of the rockets exploded in an open area near the communities of Magen and Ein Habasor following an initial search by the IDF, while soldiers are still searching for the second rocket....

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The United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.S. State Department announced on Thursday, citing concerns over “continuing anti-Israel bias” at the institution. “The Department of State notified UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Why are Israeli TV formats like “In Treatment,” “Homeland” and “Fauda” extremely successful in the United States? It’s all about the characters, says Adam Berkowitz, co-head of the television department at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles and president of the international TV Formats Conference held September 12-14 in...

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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the nation’s largest aerospace and defense corporation announced on Monday that it has enhanced the capabilities of its unmanned drones to evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield or to transport supplies to troops in isolated sections of the battlefield. IAI recently demonstrated a remotely-controlled drone, called...

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