Bipartisan American support for Israel remains at historically high levels, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. The survey found that 62% of Americans are sympathetic towards Israel, while only 15% favor the Palestinians. The remaining 23% were sympathetic to neither or both sides, or had no opinion. Gallup:...

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Is the flu about to be eradicated once and for all? Dr. Ron Babecoff, the CEO and founder of Israeli company BiondVax, which has patented a vaccine that could potentially fight every strain of flu, certainly thinks so. “If somebody once thought it would be impossible to eradicate the flu, we...

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Several times a year, often more, Doreen Gold, an Israeli Jew, goes undercover to organize a mission of humanitarian aid for Syrian NGOs. From there the aid is delivered to the increasingly desperate and starving people of Syria, an enemy nation still reeling from a brutal and deadly civil war that...

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In a speech broadcast to over 2,000 attendees at Microsoft Israel’s annual Think Next event, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that Israeli contributions to technology fields such as analytics and security are “improving the world,” The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Gates, who addressed the Tel Aviv audience on...

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Claims that Israel is being diplomatically isolated are not true because the majority of African countries “see Israel as a very close friend,” the foreign minister of Kenya told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Amina Mohamed, who is on a visit to Israel with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, said that Israel “has more friends than not on...

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A gay Iranian poet who was granted a visa to visit Israel in December has now applied for asylum in the Jewish state, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Payam Feili, who escaped persecution in his native Iran and has been living in Turkey since 2014, traveled to Israel in...

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Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog said during a tour of the West Bank city of Ariel on Tuesday that all major settlement blocs will remain part of Israel in any future peace deal with the Palestinians. Herzog surprised political observers by advocating from unilateral withdrawal from much of the West Bank and agreeing...

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An Israeli soldier was killed during a Palestinian stabbing attack when gunfire meant for his assailant hit him instead, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Eliav Gelman, a 30-year-old captain in the Israeli Air Force’s reserve corps, was returning home from base when he was attacked at the Etzion...

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Database giant Oracle has agreed to acquire Israeli cloud computing startup Ravello in a deal said to be worth $500 million, PC World reported on Tuesday. The acquisition is seen as Oracle’s attempt to offer more comprehensive cloud-based services to compete with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Ravello’s technology...

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A new Arab-Israeli innovation hub has joined the Tel Aviv high-tech landscape. The TRI/O Tech advanced high-tech entrepreneurial hub in Kafr Kassem, about 12 miles east of Tel Aviv, includes a startup accelerator and the first Arab-Israeli school of entrepreneurship. TRI/O Tech is a joint venture of Tsofen, an Arab-Israeli integration non-profit,...

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