Israel’s SpaceIL, one of only five teams remaining in the multi-million-dollar Google Lunar XPrize race to the moon, is starting to assemble the craft to be launched in 2018, according to SpaceIL CEO Eran Privman. “We are thrilled to share with you that the various parts and components of the...

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Companies in Israel and the United States have ramped up production of the projectiles that are at the center of Israel’s multi-layered anti-missile defense systems, Defense News reported Tuesday. Israel’s missile defense systems—including the Arrow-3, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome—are all heavily funded by the U.S. In exchange, U.S. companies get a share...

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Israel’s pioneering drip-irrigation company, Netafim, announced Monday that Mexican petrochemical firm Mexichem will acquire an 80% stake in the company in a deal worth $1.516 billion. Kibbutz Hatzerim, Netafim’s founder, will retain the remaining 20% stake. The total enterprise value of the transaction is $1.895 billion. Founded in 1965, Netafim...

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The Israel Air Force (IAF) struck two Hamas targets last night in response to a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. The rocket landed in an open area, believed to be a building site, without causing casualties. Warning sirens were sounded in both Ashkelon and the nearby Hof Ashkelon Regional...

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If Palestinians want peace with Israel, they will have to stop denying Jewish history and “accept the historic tie and sacred nature of the Temple Mount for Jews,” a former State Department official wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post. Yehuda Mirsky traced the roots of Palestinian denial...

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A leading Democratic congressman told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that support in the U.S. House of Representatives for legislation strengthening Israel’s security is “overwhelmingly bipartisan.” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – Md.), the House Minority Whip, told reporters that there was no lingering bitterness among Democrats towards Israel over Netanyahu’s congressional...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received Togo’s President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss the upcoming Africa-Israel summit that Togo will host in October. Fifty four African nations are slated to attend the summit, which will take place from October 23-27 in Togo’s capital, Lome. Netanyahu is due to...

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Muhammad, an engineering student at Azrieli College in Jerusalem, has an idea for a security application to send laptops into sleep mode upon sensing that the user has left the immediate vicinity. It could be helpful for people working in a public library or coffee shop, or even in highly...

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An Iranian journalist facing the death penalty in her home country has been granted asylum in Israel, where she is expected to arrive shortly. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotoveli said on Monday that Neda Amin would be arriving in Israel “in the coming days,” though her initial plans to come to...

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Two Muslim-majority African nations will send their first-ever ambassadors to Israel next week, as the Jewish state continues to bolster its ties on the continent. Senegal and Guinea, both of which recently upgraded their diplomatic relationships with Israel, announced that they are appointing ambassadors to the Jewish state for the first...

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