None of the issues that last year’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement were supposed to address have been solved, according to a policy brief written yesterday by Grant Rumley, a research analyst for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies. The decision of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to join a unity government...

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The document-sharing website and application Dropbox has selected Addalom, an Israeli cloud computing firm, to take charge of security for its Dropbox for Business initiative, David Shamah of The Times of Israel reported today. Shamah wrote that a top security firm was necessary because Dropbox for Business users need to be “110% positive...

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Israeli academics are seeing signs of an undeclared boycott against them, Ha’aretz reported today. These signs include turning down invitations to attend conferences held in Israel, ignoring requests to write recommendation letters for Israeli scholars seeking promotions, and rejecting submissions from Israeli scholars in peer-reviewed journals. Hostility toward Israel is...

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When Elly Gorodetzer’s mother fell off an escalator in the mall, first responders noticed the MyMDband on her wrist and scanned its QR code to access her medical profile, at the same time automatically alerting her loved ones of the incident’s location. No doubt the woman is grateful to her son...

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Narendra Modi, who was elected prime minister of India last year, will be the first Indian leader to visit Israel, The Times of India reported today. Narendra Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to travel to Israel, a visit that will finally bring one of the world’s close...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon stated that last Friday’s arrest of a Hezbollah terrorist in Cyprus pointed to a large-scale terror campaign by the Iranian-backed terror group against Israeli targets in Europe, Reuters reported today. Speaking to reporters, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon described the suspect’s apartment as “a hideout, which according to what to...

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Israel-based humanitarian relief agency IsraAID has sent a team of volunteers to flood-ravaged Texas to help with relief efforts. This is not the first time the Israeli organization has sent disaster relief aid to the U.S. The latest team of seven volunteers will help with removing debris from damaged houses...

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The 29 women serving in Israel’s newly elected Knesset have once again set a record, CNN reported yesterday. “If you don’t have women around the table, then decisions are made according to what’s convenient for men, not what’s convenient for women,” said Rachel Azaria, a first-term Knesset member with the Kulanu party. “Every...

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Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said that the United States and France were coordinating a United Nations Security Council resolution that would put a time limit on the establishment of a Palestinian state. Hamdallah, who is the prime minister of the Fatah-Hamas Palestinian unity government, made the claim in an interview...

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The international credit card company Visa will open a research and development center in Herzliya, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Visa will be extending its new European collaboration hub, called Visa Euro Collab, to Israel. The goal of the Collabs is to boost startups’ chances for success by leveraging Visa’s...

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