In the early 1970s, when physicist Abraham Katzir was a graduate student at Hebrew University, his supervisor urged him to get into optics, the study of light. The future, he predicted, was all about lasers and optical fibers. So Katzir studied modern optics in the United States and in 1977...

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Two sisters from the Gaza Strip were apprehended at the Erez crossing with explosive materials hidden inside tubes designated for cancer medicine, Israeli officials said Wednesday. The sisters had obtained a permit to cross into Israel so one of them could receive cancer treatments at an Israeli hospital, The Times of...

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Determining whether an infection is bacterial or viral used to be a coin toss, until an Israeli startup developed a device for doing just that. Israeli company MeMed announced Wednesday that it has received a $9.2 million contract from the United States Department of Defense in what would be a...

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Israeli researchers have devised a way to detect buried landmines using a system of glowing bacteria and lasers. Landmines, which kill or injured an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people each year worldwide, emit small quantities of explosive vapors. Researchers from Hebrew University headed by Prof. Shimshon Belkin of the Alexander Silberman...

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The Palestinian Authority suspended ties with the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) Thursday due to the agency’s plans to change its curriculum, which currently contains material inciting violence against Israelis. The PA’s Education Ministry called the possible reforms “an affront to the Palestinian people, its history and struggles.” “The...

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A South African youth leader has strongly rebuked the charge that Israel is an apartheid state and called on activists to stop appropriating the term when describing its conflict with the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Nkululeko Nkosi, 23, is a member of Africans for Peace, a self-described “collective of independent students,...

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The Islamic State’s branch in the Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a southern Israeli community on Monday, shortly before the beginning of the Passover holiday. “The fighters of the Islamic State have bombed the Jewish settlement in southern Palestine with a Grad rocket,” Sinai Province declared in...

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin sent a letter of condolence to Egyptian President Abdal Fatah el-Sisi on Monday for the twin suicide bombing attacks carried out by the Islamic State against Egyptian Coptic churches on Palm Sunday. At least 28 people were killed at St. George’s Cathedral in the city of...

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Nucleix of the Israeli city Rehovot has received the CE Mark of approval to market Bladder EpiCheck in the European Union countries. Based on epigenetics—meaning “any process that alters gene activity without changing the DNA sequence”—the inexpensive, noninvasive Bladder EpiCheck urine test helps urologists to better monitor their bladder-cancer patients....

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American and Israeli naval commandos participated in joint exercises last week, the latest in an ongoing series of drills between two nation’s militaries. United States Navy Seals, Israel’s Shayetet 13 Naval Commandos, Sa’ar 5 missile ships, Naval Special Warfare vessels, and other Israeli naval boats all participated in the exercises, The...

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