Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor is being consider by the United States Army to defend deployed troops, Defense News reported Tuesday. Iron Dome was primarily produced by the Israeli defense giant Rafael, but many of its component systems were provided by the American defense contractor Raytheon. That company has now built...

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SayVU, a new app that allows a user to send a distress signal even if a phone is locked, is being used at the Rio Olympics as part of its security initiatives. The app got its start as a student project at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. SayVU allows users to...

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A Palestinian man who intervened to save children from a terror attack has been fired from his job due to local opposition to his actions, The Times of Israel reported Monday. In response, Yochai Damari, the head of the Har Havron Regional Council, the local government for Israelis living in...

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Yarden Gerbi, the 2013 world judo champion and seven-time Israeli titleholder, defeated Miku Tashiro of Japan to win the Olympic bronze medal in the women’s under-63 kilogram (139 pound) class Tuesday. She is the first Israeli to win an Olympic medal since windsurfer Shahar Tzuberi won a bronze medal in...

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Eight seriously injured Syrians, including children aged seven and 11, were treated by IDF medical teams at the Israeli-Syrian border last week before being evacuated to hospitals for further treatment, Ynet reported Sunday. The wounded were brought to the border fence following an artillery attack on the hospital in Quneitra,...

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Israel has been consulting with Sunni Arab countries on ways to counter terrorism and the rise of Iran, Dore Gold, the director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with the Financial Times on Monday. “The Sunni Arab states increasingly see the Middle East through the same prism...

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Sensors are the hidden brain in everything from precision agriculture to connected cars, home appliances to security systems, smart cities to digital health. “A sensor is anything that translates a physical phenomenon to a measurable signal or other information. For example, in the past they used canaries as sensors for...

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The allegations that the Gaza director of the charity World Vision siphoned tens of millions of dollars to the terrorist group Hamas represents a “profound betrayal of trust,” one of the United Nations’ top officials dealing with Palestinian affairs said in a statement Monday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced on...

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Israeli researchers triumphed over 11 other international teams the 2016 Surgical Robotic Challenge in London with their robot for minimally invasive neurosurgery. The robot, intended for the removal of brain tumors of up to six centimeters (2.5 inches) in size, is operated through a small keyhole in the skull using laser...

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The Knesset held a special session on Wednesday night to commemorate Ze’ev Jabotinsky—the intellectual father of the Israeli Right. And in paying respects, Israel’s leaders read their own characters into the early Zionist luminary, only months after recasting themselves in the role of Theodor Herzl in a similar session. Prime...

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