After being lampooned as the “Jamaican Bobsled Team of the World Baseball Classic,” team Israel swept to its second win in 24 hours today with a rout of the heavily favored Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) team by a score of 15-7. Just hours after they stunned the host team from South Korea...

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Israeli officials believe that a Hezbollah attack on the Jewish state will be supported by the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. The LAF did not participate in the last Israel-Hezbollah war, in 2006. But the LAF has improved its capabilities since then, with an arsenal rebuilt via aid from the...

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Fortune magazine last week released a list of “50 Companies Leading the AI Revolution,” and the prestigious list includes three hot Israeli companies in the artificial intelligence sector: Logz.io, Voyager Labs, and Zebra Medical Vision. Fortune’s infographic includes only six countries and features an equal number of notable AI companies...

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Elections For Me, But Not for Thee The Palestinian Authority announced on Tuesday that scheduled municipal elections in May would only take place in the West Bank, thus excluding the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that “the West Bank government’s decision… amounts to reinforcing the split” between the terror...

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An Israeli rock star and his Iranian counterpart performed together in Tel Aviv on Thursday, sharing a message of unity with some 6,000 spectators. Israel’s Aviv Geffen and Iran’s Shahin Najaf sang two songs to the cheering crowd, alternating between Hebrew and Farsi, NBC News reported. The audience at the Tel Aviv...

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Israel has been exporting gas to Jordan since January, it was announced on Thursday. Yossi Abu, CEO of Israeli company Delek Drilling, said that “since early this year we started to export, it’s not huge quantities, but it’s still an export to Jordan.” Delek and American company Noble Energy hold...

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The tech giant Apple sees Israel as the ideal place to develop its next major innovation: Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook called AR a “big idea” that could be available to everyone, industry newsletter Apple Insider reported Tuesday. Steven Milunovich, an analyst at the investment firm...

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On April 22, 2014, only a week before the end of the nine-month negotiating period set by the White House, Israeli negotiators felt that they had made progress in talks with the Palestinians, and came up with a proposal to extend the negotiations. But the following day, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

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The United Nations Human Rights Council’s “obsession” with Israel has diverted attention from its mission and made a “mockery” of its proceedings, limiting the good it could otherwise accomplish across the world, the American representative to the council said in a speech Wednesday. Erin Barclay, deputy assistant secretary of state for international organization...

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A growing number of Muslim Arab-Israelis are enlisting in the Israel Defense Forces despite the disapproval of their communities, NBC reported Sunday. “There is more openness among Arab Muslims that are not Bedouins to volunteer and join the army,” said Col. Wagdi Sarhan, the head of the IDF’s minorities unit. “We’re...

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