Everyone knows plastic is bad for the environment. That’s why bioplastics – plastics made from renewable sources like plants or old waste – were invented. But these bioplastics can’t be created everywhere since the plants they use require fresh water, a scarce resource in many countries. One such country is...

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Asked to repudiate a previous condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott movement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded, “I will continue to condemn the BDS movement,” at a town hall meeting on Tuesday. The town hall meeting was held at Brock University in St. Catherine’s Ontario. Part of Trudeau’s response was explaining...

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) “should stop spending 7 percent of its annual budget on inciting and paying terrorist salaries, and instead use it to develop its infrastructure and help its people,” Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner. Danon was...

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Dust storms, torrential rain, snow — and a bit of sunshine, too – are in the mix this week in Israel as January brings unusually wet, cold weather. The storms, along with colder temperatures in mid-week, are forecast for the entire region stretching from Turkey through Israel to Jordan. Flash...

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Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot told New York Times columnist Bret Stephens that during his tenure as Israel’s top soldier, Israel hit “thousands” of Iranian targets in Syria, the latter wrote in a column published Friday. Eisenkot was describing Israel’s efforts to prevent Iran from establishing...

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Defying anti-Israel boycotters, British comedian John Cleese, a founding member of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe and creator of the series Fawlty Towers, will arrive in Israel for two performances in September, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. The 79-year-old Cleese, who is regarded among the most influential...

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The IDF said that it found the sixth and final cross-border terror tunnel that the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah built into Israeli territory, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. “With the discovery of this terror tunnel, the effort to locate the passages dug by Hezbollah that crossed the border into...

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The need to train health, mental-health and engineering professionals in disaster response for quick deployment around the world is behind the Los Angeles launch of the new IsraAID Humanitarian Professionals Network(IHPN). Founded in Israel in 2001, IsraAID is a non-governmental organization that provides lifesaving emergency relief and long-term, sustainable solutions for populations affected...

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CloudEndure, an Israeli company, confirmed that it had been acquired by AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, for $250 million, Globes reported Thursday. “CloudEndure is now an Amazon Web Services company. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner since 2016, CloudEndure has long joined forces to help customers future-proof their businesses. This acquisition...

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The United States has begun withdrawing its troops from Syria, following last month’s announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. would leave the country, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led forces fighting ISIS, stated that U.S. troops have “begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from...

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