Empow, SafeBreach and Optimal+ were among Israeli companies cited in information technology research and advisory company Gartner’s 2017 Cool Vendors listing. Each year Gartner releases its Cool Vendors picks based on its research into worldwide providers that are changing the digital paradigm in areas such as data science and machine learning, threat...

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The Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenya to help the African nation restore forests in dry areas, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The agreement will govern how KKL-JNF will assist Kenya in forestation and optimal water utilization efforts. At the signing ceremony in Jerusalem, KKL-JNF chairman...

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A leading American Reform rabbi said that the best approach to the controversy over canceled plans for an egalitarian prayer area at the Kotel, or Western Wall, would be for American Jews to become more engaged with Israel. Rabbi Richard Block, a former president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ)...

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Students, professors and alumni of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology now have a new way to finance their cutting-edge projects: a $200 million venture capital fund focused on creating companies out of the research conducted at the Haifa-based university. The new fund is a joint venture between the Technion Research...

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Iran used a Star of David as a target for one of its ballistic missile tests last year, Israel told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon distributed satellite photographs showing the target with a crater next to it, The Times of Israel...

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A mortar shell was fired from Syria into the Israeli Golan Heights on Wednesday evening, 10 miles from a town where the Israeli prime minister was visiting. In a speech on Wednesday in Katzrin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We are here celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Katzrin, the capital...

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Coral reefs are dying on a massive scale around the world, driven by climate change. The planet’s largest reef, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, has only a third of its 2,300-kilometer ecosystem left unscathed by bleaching, which happens when colored algae are ejected by the coral and their normal symbiosis breaks...

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Iran is not shy about its aim of spreading influence abroad, nor its apparent success with establishing a “visible presence … just a stone’s throw from Israel,” The Jerusalem Post’s Seth J. Frantzman reported Wednesday. Just meters from the fence that separates Israel and Lebanon, where the Israeli community of...

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A United States aircraft carrier is slated to dock in an Israeli port for the first time in 17 years on Saturday. The USS George H. W. Bush, named for the World War II naval aviator and 41st U.S. president, is scheduled to arrive in Haifa for a four day stopover...

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If the idea of Sweden in the winter warms your creative juices and you’re part of an early-stage startup, a new entrepreneurial boot camp sponsored by IKEA may be just your cup of glogg. IKEA is looking for 10 startups with two to six cofounders or team members to join them in...

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