A state in Uruguay recently inaugurated a $20 million video surveillance monitoring center using Israeli technologies from the Israeli company Elbit Systems. The departamento of Maldonado turned to Israeli technology for the Safe District project, which spans across six municipal authorities including the well-known Punta Del Este tourist resort. The Safe District...

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In one of its first votes in the new session of Congress, the House of Representatives has scheduled a Thursday vote on a bipartisan resolution condemning the United Nations Security Council resolution that criticized Israeli activities in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The bill is co-sponsored by both parties’ leaders in House Foreign...

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Textbooks used in United Nations-run schools in the West Bank did not include Israel in their maps or mention Jewish historical or cultural ties to the country, a recent study has found. Professors Arnon Gross and Roni Shaked of the Harry Truman Research Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem found...

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The Israeli left should support efforts to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which are both “justified” and would help bolster its legitimacy in the eyes of the Israeli public, Don Futterman argued in Haaretz on Tuesday. Futterman, the Israel Program Director for the U.S.-based Moriah Fund, noted that the Jewish nation...

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A “flying car” being developed by an Israeli firm successfully completed its first trip over terrain this past November, Reuters reported Tuesday. Urban Aeronautics, based in Yavne in central Israel, hopes to bring the Cormorant into the market by 2020. Formerly known as Air Mule, the drone is about the size...

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A Israeli military court found a soldier who fatally shot an incapacitated Palestinian attacker guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday. A panel of three judges delivered the verdict against Sgt. Elor Azaria, 19, who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif around 15 minutes after al-Sharif was seriously wounded while trying to stab an Israeli soldier in...

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Israeli billionaire Marius Nacht is banking on Israeli bio-tech with a $2.8 million investment into BiondVax Pharmaceuticals, a clinical phase company developing a universal flu vaccine. “This investment is a vote of confidence in BiondVax and its universal influenza vaccine candidate. We are now better positioned to complete our development...

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Hamas released videos on Saturday that mocked a deceased Israeli Defense Force soldier whose body the terrorist group has held since 2014. In the first video, the face of Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul is superimposed on an actor, who is bound and sits cowering in front of a birthday cake with three...

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Fatah, the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, celebrated the 52nd anniversary of its first attack against Israel last week in a series of Facebook posts glorifying Palestinian terrorists. The party’s official Facebook page commemorated the January 1, 1965 attack by “parading some of the movement’s role models, among them several...

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In its end of year report, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas claimed that it killed 17 Israelis and wounded 437 more during 2016. The first months of 2016 were marked by a wave Palestinian terrorism against Israelis, often by “lone wolf” attackers, which began in September 2015. According to Israel’s Magen David Adom, 42...

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