Rambam Medical Center in Haifa has received a large donation from a Palestinian Authority official who received life-saving care there, Times of Israel reported Monday. According to the anonymous benefactor, the donation is intended “to build peace through medicine.” The official decided to give tens of thousands of Israeli shekels to the Joseph Fishman...

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Israeli leaders welcomed President Baron Waqa of the Pacific island nation of Nauru to Jerusalem this week. In a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday, Waqa spoke of the productive technology-sharing relationship between their two nations and said he was “very pleased” to visit Jerusalem. “I want to show our solidarity...

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Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire Hexadite, an Israeli-American company whose automatic incident investigation and remediation solutions will help commercial Windows 10 customers detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks on their networks with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). An official Microsoft statement released on June 8...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations last week that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) should be disbanded and absorbed into the UN High Commission for Refugees. Netanyahu told ministers at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting that he made the comments to Ambassador Nikki Haley after...

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Israel’s deputy chief of staff disputed the effectiveness of the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Lebanon while touring the border with the force’s commander and Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations last week, Israel’s Channel Two reported. After Maj. Gen. Michael Beary, the head of the UN’s Interim Force in Lebanon...

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Researchers in Israel report they have discovered a molecule in newborn hearts that appears to control the process of renewing heart muscle. When injected into adult mouse hearts injured by heart attacks, this molecule, called Agrin, seems to “unlock” that renewal process and enable heart muscle repair – something never...

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Jerusalem-based renewable-energy developer Energiya Global will invest $1 billion over the next four years to advance green power projects across 15 West African countries as part of a memorandum of understanding signed earlier this week between Israel and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). “In honor of President...

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Israel has been gaining international recognition for its production of critically-acclaimed television shows that become popular abroad, particularly in the United States and Europe. Both Bloomberg and Variety recently reported on the reputation of Israeli dramas in the U.S., citing an entrepreneurial spirit, a necessity for creativity, and a desire for cultural communication among the...

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“Hamas for Israel is like ISIS for the Western world,” the former head of Israel’s Southern Command said on Monday, 10 years since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip. Yoav Galant, the commander of Israel’s Southern Command from 2005 to 2010, is currently a member of Knesset with the Kulanu party and...

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In a highly unusual move, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi will not meet with the Palestinian Authority during his scheduled visit to Israel next month, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “This is going to be a purely bilateral visit. He is coming to visit us, and only us,” a...

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