BreezoMeter, an Israeli big data analytics company that provides dynamic air quality data in real-time, has announced the use of its software platform in the new Dyson Pure Cool Link air purifier. BreezoMeter’s data will be used to provide users with live access to outdoor air quality data on their...

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Low-level members of Hezbollah are growing increasingly frustrated with the Iran-backed terrorist militia, with many saying that they just want to be paid so they can go home. Hanin Ghaddar, the managing editor of the Lebanese news website NOW, came to this conclusion after interviewing after interviewing a number of young men who have been...

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The Galilee International Management Institute has signed a five-year cooperation agreement with the Chinese government on innovations in agriculture. The Galilee public training institute offers advanced seminars to professionals from over 170 transitional and industrialized countries, in an attempt to promote cooperation on global and regional levels. Over the last...

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The head of Iran’s armed forces said that the Islamic Republic seeks to have a “mighty presence” in Latin America in order to assert its naval power, the Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi told reporters in the port city of Bandar Abbas that Iran plans to modernize its navy in the new...

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235 members of Columbia’s faculty, or perhaps more by now, have signed a letter to the Columbia Board of Trustees urging them to reject calls to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The signers of this letter have defended a core value of the American university. Regardless of where...

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A small Tel Aviv distillery is poised to become the first Israeli producer to tap into the growing international market for single-malt whisky. “We want people who love the land and love whisky to buy our whisky,” Gal Kalkshtein, owner of Milk & Honey Distillery, told CNN. Since there aren’t enough whisky drinkers...

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App developers in Israel are being given a rare chance to meet some of the top movers and shakers in Asia’s smartphone industry as part of the Asia Smartphone Apps Contest to be held in Hong Kong on June 14-17th. This is the fourth year in a row that the...

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When news of the now-infamous shooting of a wounded Palestinian by an Israel soldier broke last week, Israeli leaders rushed to condemn the incident. The human rights organization B’tselem had filmed the moment in Hebron when an IDF soldier killed a disarmed Palestinian terrorist, lying wounded on the ground, with a...

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Jerusalem’s high-tech scene is thriving with thousands of entrepreneurs, hundreds of startups, and an innovative community that is growing all the time. Entrepreneur Magazine named Jerusalem among its top five places outside of Silicon Valley for tech startups to launch and excel in 2015, saying Israel’s capital “has experienced a reawakening and...

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Last Thursday, another stabbing attack — one not so different than any of the other 211 stabbing attacks carried out against Israelis since last October — took place in Hebron. What We Know and What We Don’t Know Two young Palestinian men stabbed an Israeli soldier, and were subsequently shot by nearby troops. A...

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