The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has developed a potential nanomedicine treatment for stomach cancer, using a combination of anti-cancer drugs and a chemo-resistance reversal agent that eliminates gastric tumors’ resistance to chemotherapy drugs. The treatment could be self-administered at home by the patient—eliminating the need for hospitalization, which is dangerous for...

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A number of Israeli startups announced multi-million dollar funding successes in the last half of July, especially in the field of cybersecurity. GuardiCore, the startup known for its internal data center security and breach detection, announced a $20 million Series B financing round led by existing investors. The Tel Aviv and...

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It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, the Palestinian Authority (PA) foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, announced that his boss, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, had asked the Arab states prepare a legal case against Britain...

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The Israeli and American teams vying to win Google’s Lunar XPRIZE challenge have emerged as the competition’s two frontrunners, CNN reported on Tuesday. Thirty private teams from 16 countries initially entered the competition, which challenged participants to land a spacecraft on the moon, move it 500 meters in any direction, and...

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Hamas is building six miles of tunnels every month, Israeli officials told Israel’s Channel 2 on Wednesday. The unnamed defense and diplomatic officials also said that Israel has “no perfect solution” to the tunnel threat, adding that “neither does any other country.” Since the end of the 2014 Gaza war, the...

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The U.S. Marine Corps and elite Israeli naval commandos held a joint military exercise to showcase and practice techniques used in the fight against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The exercise, called “Noble Shirley,” took place in Israel’s Negev desert last week and...

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Jordanian border guards arrested a man who was trying to enter Israel in a truck that was equipped with firebombs, Jordanian military officials said Tuesday. The driver had ignored orders to stop and have his car searched at the checkpoint, instead trying to drive through the roadblocks separating the two countries. “Materials used to...

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In a scientific breakthrough, Tel Aviv University researchers have found a way to identify cancerous cells months before they develop into malignant brain tumors. Even after tumors caused by melanoma—also known as skin cancer—are removed, metastatic melanoma cells can disseminate undetected to other parts of the body, including the brain. Once they reach the...

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In his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, former president Bill Clinton told the story of how his wife, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, introduced an Israeli-developed educational program in Arkansas, which later spread nationwide. “Hillary told me about a preschool program developed in Israel called HIPPY, Home Instruction...

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A leading Iranian general who previously called Israel’s destruction “nonnegotiable” recently visited a Syrian town that lies along the country’s border with Israel, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of Iran’s volunteer Basij militia, toured the abandoned city of Quneitra, located...

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