Wix, a globally successful web-development platform that is based in Tel Aviv, is taking on the Super Bowl again with an ad campaign featuring Gal Gadot and Jason Statham. The new commercials are meant to show just how easy it is to create a web presence using the Wix platform....

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Israeli tech firms are engaged in secret, extensive business dealings with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States, a trend that could be a harbinger of more open cooperation, Jonathan Ferziger and Peter Waldman reported in Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday. According to Shmuel Bar, a former Israeli intelligence official who developed a program...

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A delegation of school principals and teachers from Paipa municipality in Colombia came to Israel last month to learn educational strategies that will strengthen local schools back home. The South American educators took part in a tailor-made professional program on Education towards Sustainable Development (ESD) conducted by MASHAV, Israel’s international...

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Moving the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem could “advance American national goals and interests,” Washington’s former ambassador to Israel wrote Tuesday in an essay for Foreign Policy. Daniel Shapiro, who served as an envoy to Israel from 2011 until last month, explained that his support for the embassy...

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The Bank of Israel on Tuesday revealed its updated designs for the 20 and 100 shekel bills, which feature the portraits of Hebrew-language female poets, The Times of Israel reported. Although former Prime Minister Golda Meir was featured on the NIS 10 bill, which was issued in 1985 and circulated until the...

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As computer devices and the “Internet of Things” continue to break new boundaries and create changes to our lifestyle, new cybersecurity mechanisms to defend our tech-savvy lives are crucial. “Not many years ago, computers were far away. Then they came to our desktops, then to our laptops, and then to...

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The world’s yellow-tailed woolly monkey population is critically endangered and repeatedly features on a list of the top 25 most endangered primates. Now, a new Israeli-led conservationist project will ensure this rare primate species will have a protected land area in the Peruvian Andes, safe from deforestation and poaching. This...

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A Canadian trade school that originally told an Israeli potential student that it would not accept him because of his nationality has rescinded its boycott of Israelis, the school’s manager of student services told The Tower on Tuesday. Israeli civil engineering student and amateur carpenter Stav Daron wanted to sign...

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Newly-installed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that Israel should not be discriminated against in the General Assembly. In an interview with Benny Avni of Israel’s Channel 2, Guterres said that in the General Assembly, “Israel needs to be considered as a state as the same as all the others with...

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The Director General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry will arrive in Turkey on Tuesday for the first direct, bilateral talks between the two countries since a reconciliation agreement was signed last year, ending a six-year hiatus in diplomatic relations. Yuval Rotem will head the three-day Israeli delegation to Turkey, where they...

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