Education game developer Matific has raised $45 million from investors, which it says it will use to increase research and development activities in Israel. Matific is a series of math video games developed by Slate Science. To date, 15,000 teachers use the games aimed at kindergarten through sixth grade to add...

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh revealed that the terrorist organization makes no distinction between its civilian and military “wings,” vowing in a statement on Hamas’ website to take payments intended for government employees and funnel them to “military personnel.” Qatar recently agreed to transfer $31 million to Hamas in order to pay government workers,...

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Israel’s emergency authority said it will need 500 million shekels ($130 million) a year for five years to improve its defenses against the Iran-backed terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, Haaretz reported on Monday. Israel currently spends about 200 million shekels each year on home front preparedness, beyond the sum included in...

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Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren was appointed deputy minister of the Prime Minster’s Office and head of Israel’s public diplomacy, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The move comes as part of a cabinet reshuffle involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Kulanu, the second-largest party in...

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A Palestinian man who tried to bomb the Jerusalem light rail last month said he plotted the attack in “revenge for visits by tourists and Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount,” police revealed on Tuesday. Ali Abu Hassan, a Hebron University student whose attempted attack was foiled by an alert...

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A consortium of Chinese companies has announced that it is paying $4.4 billion for Playtika, the Israeli social games developer, which was owned by Caesars Interactive Entertainment. The group, led by an affiliate of Shanghai Giant Network Technology, one of China’s largest online games companies, said it has entered into...

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The Palestinian Authority filed a complaint with FIFA after Israel prevented several players from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip from traveling to the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The move is the latest in the PA’s ongoing effort to insert its conflict with Israel into international fora. Israel’s internal...

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Fourteen-year NBA veteran Amar’e Stoudemire signed a two-year deal to play with Hapoel Jerusalem on Monday, calling the opportunity a “dream come true” in an interview with ESPN. In explaining his decision to retire after 14 seasons in the NBA and instead play in Israel, the six-time All-Star said: “Now also...

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A video emerged on Friday showing a Palestinian man urging Israeli soldiers to kill his toddler son so he could capture the shooting on camera. The father is seen shoving the young boy toward an armed soldier, who responds by giving the child a high-five. The father continued egging the boy...

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The mayor of the largest Druze village located on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights dismissed a recent United Nations report criticizing Israel’s control over the territory as “a total joke,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Friday. Dulan abu-Saleh, the mayor of Majdal Shams, objected to a report issued by the UN Economic and...

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