Israel’s Foreign Ministry released its report on Operation Protective Edge on Sunday. According to the Times of Israel, the Foreign Ministry explained the country’s actions as responding to “an enemy that targets civilians and operates from among its own people.” The central argument, though, is coherent and persuasive and evidence of the...

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Andrew Viterbi, the founder of Qualcomm, has donated $50 million to the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, the Israeli business website Globes reported today. Viterbi, an Italian-born Jew, has lived in the US for most of his life. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and received a doctorate from the...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey for increased aid to the beleaguered Druze community in Syria during Dempsey’s visit to Israel last week, the Times of Israel reported Sunday. The request was lodged with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman during the...

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An Israeli cybersecurity firm released a report on Iranian hacking efforts primarily targeting Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Yemen, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The Israeli ClearSky cybersecurity company said it has discovered an ongoing wave of cyber attacks originating from Iran on targets in Israel and the Middle East. The...

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Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Security (SIT), Europe’s largest private organization dedicated to applied scientific research, plans to open a cybersecurity center in Israel later this month, David Shamah of  The Times of Israel reported Friday. The project will be officially launched at the end of June, when dozens...

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A multinational delegation of senior military and political leaders has submitted a report to the United Nations asserting that “Israel not only met a reasonable international standard of observance of the laws of armed conflict, but in many cases significantly exceeded that standard” during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge in...

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The Qatar-owned TV station Al Jazeera America (AJAM) is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former executive, Shannon High-Bassalik, alleging that the network discriminated against women and non-Arabs and promoted anti-Israel bias in its reporting, Politico reported Thursday. In her lawsuit, High-Bassalik, who has also worked at CNN, MSNBC...

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Want to take a selfie without hands? Do you dream about connecting with your favorite Chelsea footballers? Struggling to cope with an overflowing email inbox? Israeli app makers have you covered. Here are a dozen made-in-Israel apps that could make your life healthier, more fun, and more efficient. 1. uHealth is a focus-...

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After the CEO of French telecom giant Orange made comments in Cairo earlier this week that were interpreted as withdrawing from the Israeli market and supporting a boycott of the Jewish state, international law expert and Northwestern University Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich wrote an analysis, published today in The Washington Post, that accused the company of hypocrisy due...

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A rocket that was fired into Israel, setting off alerts in the country’s south, fell short and landed in Hamas-ruled Gaza, the Associated Press reported today. Sirens wailed in some areas warning of the attack late Thursday night and the military initially said it had hit the area of southern...

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