Four Israeli companies have announced multi-million-pound investments in Wales that will create up to 100 new jobs. The announcements came in the wake of a visit by a delegation of Israeli businesses to Wales to celebrate existing Israeli-Welsh trade and investments. Orbotech, a global leader in semiconductor equipment, confirmed that...

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Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared on his English-language Twitter account today that Israel – or the “Zionist regime” – will be gone in 25 years. In his message, Khamenei said, “God willing there will be nothing of Zionist regime by 25 years.” He added, “Until then, struggling, heroic...

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NovoCure – the company known for its novel approach to treat solid tumors with electric fields — has filed for an IPO to raise up to $300 million. The Israeli medical device pioneer received FDA approval in 2011 for its TTFields product designed to treat Glioblastoma brain cancer. Chief underwriters...

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Streams of desperate refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East, Asia and Africa will soon get a helping hand from IsraAID, a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Israel in 2001 to bring lifesaving disaster relief and long-term support wherever needed. “We are running a campaign with the goal of inspiring...

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Palestinian officials have rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to restart peace negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat called Netanyahu “king of the settlers” and dismissed his remarks as a PR stunt, Israel Radio reported. Erekat charged that the prime minister actively worked...

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In an attempt to boost political support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Secretary of State John Kerry sent letters to Congress acknowledging that the administration harbors “no illusion that [Iran’s] behavior will change following implementation of the JCPOA,” and pledged that the United States will boost its aid...

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We’ve all heard the horror stories: The guy whose apartment was used by Airbnb renters for a wild orgy; the woman kidnapped by an Uber driver, the eBay wedding-dress scammer. Though we all love the ease of mobile and online marketplaces, we must have the ability to be reasonably sure...

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Israel is keeping a “very sharp eye” on Iran’s expanding stock of highly accurate Fateh 313 ballistic missiles, which have twice the range of their predecessor, the Fateh 110, according to an Israeli defense official quoted Saturday in an article published in Defense News. “We assess that Iran has begun to...

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Iranian dissidents abroad who are falling victim to sophisticated cyber-attacks are likely being targeted by Iranian hackers who seek “to steal their email communications and contacts,” according to a report released this week by Canadian researchers, Voice of America reported yesterday. The report, titled “London Calling,” details a multi-layered, real-time...

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U2 front-man Bono “knighted” Israeli renewable energy pioneer Yosef Abramowitz while visiting a solar field developed by Abramowitz’s company Gigawatt Global in Rwanda, The Times of Israel reported today. Bono was in Rwanda visiting the solar field with a group of US representatives to explore ways in which the US and...

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