Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold thanked Norway after the Norwegian foreign minister vowed that his country would no longer transfer financial aid to the Palestinian Authority that would be used to pay terrorists. “It is outrageous that killing Israelis has become a source of income for many in the PA,”...

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Musician and entrepreneur will.i.am’s new wearable bracelet watch/gadget, Dial, will soon be powered by Israeli technology. The former Black Eyed Peas frontman has acquired the Israeli startup Sensiya to tap into the Tel Aviv company’s language processing capabilities. Financial details of the purchase were not reported, but Sensiya CEO Noam Fine told Geektime that his...

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The Israeli Navy arrested a Hamas-affiliated smuggler who took advantage of recently relaxed limits on fishing boats from the Gaza Strip to bring in weapons and materials that could be used to build rockets, Israel’s internal security service announced on Monday. Salim Jamal Hassan Naman, who was arrested last month, told interrogators that he...

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Israel’s rise as one of the world’s leaders in cybersecurity has been boosted by cooperation between the military, government, education, and private sectors, a level of partnership unmatched in the Western world, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Israel’s cybersecurity sector is now worth half a billion dollars annually—second only to the United States....

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Congress must do more to fund Israel’s missile defense systems due to Iran’s continued development of ballistic missiles and its commitment to destroy Israel, Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Texas) wrote in The New York Times on Friday. Cruz, who recently suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, criticized the Obama administration...

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Former President Bill Clinton said that he went to great lengths to secure a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians while he was in office, but that the Palestinians rejected the offer. “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that...

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A team of scientists from Israel, Singapore, and Switzerland has reported a major advance in the physics of perovskite solar cells – a new class of hybrid materials that is creating a revolution in solar energy technology. Unlike most other solar devices, where efficiency worsens as temperature rises, the research team—including Profs. Jeffrey M. Gordon and...

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British specialist healthcare company BTG has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Galil Medical, a global leader in delivering innovative cryotherapy solutions for kidney and other cancers. The deal is said to be worth up to $110 million. Galil Medical owns, manufactures and sells a portfolio...

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Israelis rank among the happiest nations in the world, despite living in a hostile region, and the explanation why “probably lies in indicators not considered in standard surveys,” Avinoam Bar-Yosef wrote (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Bar-Yosef, a former chief diplomatic correspondent for the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, and currently founding...

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A day after memorializing fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, Israelis marked the 68th anniversary of the founding of the modern Jewish state with countrywide festivities on Thursday. Yom Ha’atzmaut, or Independence Day, commemorates the Israeli declaration of independence on May 14, 1948, following the British withdrawal from Mandatory Palestine....

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