For Forbes magazine Chief Content Officer Randall Lane, Israel was a natural choice to host the first-ever Forbes Under 30 Global Women’s Summit, set to take place in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from March 31 to April 4, 2019 with 600 participants from 50 countries. It’s not only because participants rated...

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The chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service recently visited Israel to discuss the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Alex Younger, the MI6 chief, arrived in Israel on Monday and met with Yossi Cohen, head of the Mossad, and...

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Israel’s first moon mission successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 missile from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Thursday night, Reuters reported. If the mission is successful, Israel will join the prestigious group of only three countries that have so far landed on the moon: Russia, the United States, and China....

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In Israel, only 8 percent of startups are led by women. And while that’s not very different from the rest of the world, it does imply that Startup Nation isn’t actually that nationwide. In response, the Israel Innovation Authority, the government body in charge of supporting research and development in...

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Israel has been countering Iranian efforts to use suitcases to smuggle GPS components into Syria to upgrade Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal, Neri Zilber reported Thursday for The Daily Beast. In 2017, once it appeared that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would survive the civil war that was tearing his country apart, Zilber,...

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In response to the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to withhold the equivalent of what the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists and their families from tax receipts it collects, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will refuse all taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, The Times of Israel...

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Britain secured a deal with Israel on Monday which will allow British businesses and consumers to continue with favorable trading terms after Brexit, The Jewish Chronicle reported. International Trade Secretary and President of the Board of Trade, Dr. Liam Fox MP, signed the continuation agreement in Tel Aviv alongside Israeli...

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A politician from the British Labour Party was forced to apologize on Tuesday after she suggested a group of ex-Labour MPs, who quit the party in protest over anti-Semitism, may be secretly funded by the Israeli government, the BBC reported. Ruth George, the MP for High Peak, alleged it was...

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Merck, the German drug manufacturing giant, has opened a tech incubator in Israel, PMatX,  which will focus on companies that develop semiconductor and sensor technology, The Times of Israel reported Monday. “This is our newest initiative in Israel to help startups and academic ideas in the material sciences to become...

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The wildly popular Israeli pop duo Static & Ben El released a US single, “Tudo Bom,” following its premiere on Z100’s syndicated radio program “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.” The track released by S&B Entertainment Ventures LLC/Caroline, featuring Latin singing star J Balvin performing with the Israeli duo, is...

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