More than 600 people will work together across Israel and India next week to develop solutions to healthcare challenges facing low-income Indian communities. The first-ever India-Israeli Affordable Healthcare Hackathon, scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore from July 22-24, will feature engineers, designers, health practitioners, entrepreneurs, programmers, and other looking to disrupt...

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While Mahmoud Abbas continues to rebuff invitations to bilateral talks, the tantalizing prospect on the lips of many Israeli politicians is of a regional peace conference. In the absence of one-on-one negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the Arab Peace Initiative as a “good foundation” for talks, provided that...

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Israel’s diplomatic efforts have lead to “a revolution in our relations with important Arab states,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a college commencement speech Wednesday. Speaking to the National Security College in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu told students that Arab states have begun to realize that their real enemy isn’t Israel, but...

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The Israeli startup SuperMeat launched their crowdfunding campaign on Monday, hoping to deliver on their tagline: “Real meat, without harming animals.” The company bioengineers chicken from cultured cells to create meat without harming animals. A visit to the SuperMeat website prompts users to choose between “Meat is delicious!” or “Stop animal suffering!”— then proposes...

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Palestinian leaders have refused to participate in a peace summit in Cairo unless the Jewish state meets several of their preconditions, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The preconditions would have Israel accept a freeze on construction in the West Bank, set a timetable for negotiations, and agree to negotiations based on...

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On the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Second Lebanon War, Israeli officials continued to warn that any future conflict with Hezbollah will result in unprecedented damage to the group. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, the IDF Chief of Staff, promised on Sunday that Israel will “decisively defeat” the terrorist organization, echoing...

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American taxpayer funds designated to bolster Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were also spent on resources that were used as part of a political campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during last year’s elections, a bipartisan Senate report revealed Tuesday. The report, issued by the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, found that OneVoice Movement — which received over $300,000 in State...

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Israel adopted a law on Monday that will compel organizations that receive more than half of their funding from foreign governments to disclose their foreign funding status to Israel’s Justice Ministry. The “transparency bill,” as it was called by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, passed its third and final reading in the Knesset...

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Israel will “decisively defeat” Hezbollah should another war erupt as it did ten years ago, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot wrote on Sunday in a statement on the IDF’s website marking ten years since the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War. Eisenkot noted that Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel, and...

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Shortly after arriving home from his whirlwind diplomatic tour of Africa, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Sunday in Jerusalem, the first visit by a high-ranking Egyptian official in nine years. The two leaders discussed Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s proposal for a regional peace summit in Cairo. Netanyahu said at...

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