Israel’s National Cyber Defense Authority on Wednesday revealed that it successfully prevented a major cyber attack on 120 private and public institutions last week. The attack targeted academic institutions, research and development and advanced technological institutions in a range of fields, including medicine. Israel’s defense establishment was not a target....

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The International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) representative to Israel and the Palestinian Authority affirmed this week that Israel neither practices apartheid nor carries out extrajudicial killings. In an interview with Ynet, Jacques De Maio dismissed the two controversial charges, noting that “in contrast to the security systems in many countries, including Western...

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Explosions rocked the area near Damascus International Airport early Thursday morning following the arrival of cargo planes from Iran. “Hours before the blasts, which took place at 3:25 A.M., two Iranian 747 cargo planes, an Iranian Ilyushin il-76 and a Syrian Ilyushin il-76 landed in Damascus, according to the flight...

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As fish are an important source of inexpensive protein across the world, Israel’s BioFishency is ramping up its water-treatment installations in the developing world, most recently in Congo and Indonesia. The BioFishency Mini RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System) makes effective water treatment accessible in land-based operations that use fresh, brackish or...

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Yesterday, Caterpillar announced much better results than expected and its stock price rose by nearly 8%. I half-jokingly tweeted that a smart investor would look carefully at any company that the anti-Israel idiots want to boycott, because it might make a great investment. So I decided to test my theory....

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A Palestinian terrorist who participated in two bombings in Israel in 1969 pleaded guilty to lying on her immigration form to the United States on Tuesday. Rasmea Odeh agreed to a plea deal last month, under which she will be deported from the U.S. to Jordan but avoid jail time, CNN reported. Odeh...

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The British government has reiterated its pride in its role in the creation of the State of Israel, in response to a sustained campaign asking the government to apologize for the Balfour Declaration. A statement from the government read, “The Balfour Declaration is an historic statement for which HMG does...

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A Hezbollah-sponsored media tour of the Israeli-Lebanese border last week was a ploy meant to emphasize Hezbollah’s control of Lebanon, an expert on the Levant wrote Monday in Tablet Magazine. Tony Badran, a research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed that Hezbollah’s presence on the border with Israel was coordinated with the...

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“Life Riders,” a new emergency response unit of Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national ambulance organization, is being equipped with 1,000 electric bicycles to more easily and quickly reach patients in areas difficult for larger vehicles to access. Each member of the voluntary unit is provided with resuscitation equipment and can...

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United Nations Secretary General António Guterres pledged Sunday to be “on the front lines in the fight against anti-Semitism” and said “the modern form of anti-Semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of Israel.” "The modern form of anti-Semitism is the denial of the existence of the State of...

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