The State of Colorado is the latest US state to sign a new industrial R&D agreement with Israel. Colorado already signed an R&D agreement with Israel in 2010, but the two states decided to renew the agreement following Colorado’s decision to significantly increase budgets earmarked for Coloradoan companies conducting R&D,...

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Dismissing concerns that ties between Israel and the United States are frayed, former adviser to President Barack Obama and veteran diplomat Dennis Ross said that the United States needs “one pillar of democracy and stability” in an increasingly chaotic Middle East, and Israel is that pillar, in an interview published...

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The recent severe rainstorms that swept through the Sharon region of Israel have led to the discovery of a 1,500-year-old winepress, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Archaeologist Alla Nagorski said that the site was discovered several weeks ago when excavation at a site for for natural gas lines was halted by...

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How the brain is wired has long been a question researchers would love to solve. Now, an international ensemble of scientists and engineers has digitalized a piece of the neocortex of the brain of young rats and offers a first-ever inside view of how the brain works. The Blue Brain...

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France’s highest appeals court last week upheld fines imposed on a dozen anti-Israel activists who were found guilty of “inciting hate or discrimination” by promoting a boycott of the Jewish state, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Friday. The rulings passed on Tuesday by the Paris-based Court of Cassation confirmed the...

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The recent vote by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem “an integral part of Palestine” without mentioning their Jewish history, as well as to condemn Israel for archaeological digs in the Old...

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The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received life-saving surgery in an Israeli hospital, i24 News reported Friday. The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas underwent life-saving heart surgery at a private hospital in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli media reports Thursday. According to the reports, Abbas’s wife’s...

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Palestinians hurled a firebomb at the vehicle of an Israeli couple that was driving with their three children in the West Bank on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Both parents and all three kids were wounded, with the youngest, a four-year-old girl, sustaining moderate injuries. Palestinian terrorists hurled a Molotov...

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In his opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on Palestinian incitement on Thursday, ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) put the onus for the recent escalation of violence in Israel on the Palestinian Authority, saying that “the Palestinians will never get their state on the...

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video of an armed and masked terrorist threatening Jews and Israel in fluent Hebrew this week, The Times of Israel reported Friday. In the video, which is embedded below, the terrorist addressed the message from ISIS to all Jews, who...

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