The highest-ranking Muslim officer in the IDF wrote in an op-ed Thursday in the British paper Jewish News that his life story is a direct counter to claims of Israeli racism during “Israeli Apartheid Week,” which is occurring across the UK. Maj. Alaa Waheeb dismissed the common charge that Israel is a racist state. “Forget for a second (BDS supporters...

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Microsoft Israel’s R&D Center—the tech giant’s first R&D center outside the United States—is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. At Microsoft Israel R&D Center’s annual Think Next  showcase in Tel Aviv last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella congratulated the Israeli engineers and researchers who continue breaking new ground. He noted Microsoft’s...

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Israel is conducting final tests before deploying what military experts call one of the most advanced missile defense systems in the world, one that in many ways surpasses the capabilities of the United States. The multi-platform system includes the Iron Dome, which stops low-accuracy rockets like those fired by Hamas from the...

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Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban has announced a new fund—Saban Ventures—to invest $100 million in Israeli startups. According to a Globes report, the fund will invest primarily in mobile, social networks, ecommerce and digital media startups, with a side interest in cloud computing and financial technology. Saban, known for the Power...

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Despite the threat of arrest, former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres traveled to South Africa to deliver the keynote address at a pro-Israel event Sunday night. The 92-year-old Peres was undeterred by threats from South Africa’s Muslim Lawyers Association to have him arrested and prosecuted for war crimes. South African Jewish leaders...

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DeepOptics, a pioneer of dynamic focal glasses, has raised $4 million in Series A funding toward the development of its proprietary technology designed to streamline vision for the two billion people requiring multifocal vision correction. As reported by ISRAEL21c last October, DeepOptics seeks to disrupt the multibillion-dollar multifocal market with...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted the newly installed Egyptian ambassador to Israel on Monday, The Times of Israel reported. According to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office, “the two discussed, among other things, relations between Israel and Egypt, regional issues and the diplomatic process with the Palestinians.” After the...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the formation of a new Israel-Africa Knesset caucus and confirmed that he will be traveling to the continent this summer, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Netanyahu, who will be the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Africa since Yitzhak Shamir in 1987,...

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This is the cover of the McGraw-Hill textbook “Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World“: Here is a scan of page 123. The book republished the propaganda poster of The Map That Lies! The same lies are repeated here. To recap: Map 1: calling public lands that made up far more than...

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A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that victims of Iranian terror could seize $2.8 million in frozen Iranian funds to settle the damages owed to them. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the victims could use money from funds that were frozen after Iran’s Islamic Revolution...

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