Israel has ranked fourth out of 41 countries for the best place to raise a family in a new survey published by the expat networking service, InterNations. Austria, Sweden and Finland were cited as the Top Three locations for children-friendly care, education and recreation. Expats from around the globe took...
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A recently released propaganda video by Hamas unveils the Islamist terrorist group’s newly rebuilt tunnel infrastructure and showcases its extensive investments in military training and weapons, Ynet reported today. The video shows terrorists brandishing new weapons while practicing combat and ambush techniques against simulated Israeli “targets” at sophisticated training facilities. At one...
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An Israeli startup changing the way cardiograms (ultrasound exams of the heart) are decoded has won the final round of the Shengjing Global Innovation Awards 2015, a global startup competition held in China. DiACardio, which developed a revolutionary software to decode echocardiograms, triumphed over 21 startups from around the world....
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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that “humorous words, slogans and improper jokes” by the United States serve to “damage the trend [towards] confidence-building,” Iran’s Fars news agency reported Monday. Rouhani’s complaint comes days after he promised that Iran “will not ask for permission or abide by any resolution” that prevents...
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Hamas fired rockets at Israel from residential areas in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge last year in an attempt to provoke IDF retaliatory strikes and cause civilian casualties, Wojciech Cegielski, a reporter for Polish Radio, wrote in an op-ed published by Ha’aretz today. Cegielski worked in Gaza for a month last...
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On the first floor of a mosque in the Bedouin Arab village of Hura, 30 women with headphones over their brightly colored headscarves are providing customer service to clients of Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecom. Zainab, 21, smiles and gently caresses her pregnant belly as she prepares to handle the next...
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Last week’s rocket attacks on the northern Galilee and Golan Heights by a Syrian cell of the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorist group were likely a part of “an Iranian effort to maintain a limited front from which it can engage Israel without igniting a broader war,” and may be repeated “at...
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The Israel Defense Forces identified an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods Force general as being responsible for yesterday’s rocket attacks into northern Israel and, in retaliation, launched a series of raids against Syrian military targets, The Times of Israel reported today. According to a senior Israeli security official, Saeed...
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A video depicting an invasion of Jerusalem by Iranian troops and Tehran’s proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah, was released on a website affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Times of Israel reported yesterday. The clip, in boxy computer animation reminiscent of video games from the mid-1990s, opens with...
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Israel is the land where one can “see a Muslim woman, a gay couple kissing, and a Hassid sharing the same small space,” Haisam Hassanein, an Egyptian-born student, said in his recent commencement speech at Tel Aviv University, which was published in The Jerusalem Post yesterday. Hassanein, who came with his family...
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