In a speech yesterday at Givat Haviva, The Center for a Shared Society, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called for all citizens to forge “a shared Israeli identity,” The Times of Israel reported Thursday. “[I]t is important to say that the vision of living together, so needed in Israeli society, is one that...

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The Israeli drug company Oramed Pharmaceuticals has taken another step closer to the world’s first insulin pill when it announced this week that it has submitted the study protocol for the company’s Phase IIb trial of ORMD-0801 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ORMD-0801 is the company’s proprietary flagship product,...

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Pope Francis called the refusal to recognize the State of Israel anti-Semitic, The Times of Israel reported today. The Pope also clarified that, contrary to media reports, he had not called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “an angel of peace.” In comments made to veteran Portuguese-Israeli journalist Henrique Cymerman Thursday, Francis...

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Have you ever noticed that when you are visiting your bank’s website or checking out at an ecommerce site, the cursor inexplicably vanishes and you have to move your mouse to get it back? This “trick” is part of how an award-winning Israeli fraud-busting startup is keeping users safe online....

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A team of researchers from Israel’s Technion and the University of North Texas won a $125,000 first prize in a competition sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for their innovative method of desalinating water, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Aided by the prize money, the winners plan...

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The Israeli Air Force struck at terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that fell in southern Israel Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported today. The IDF said in a statement that it targeted four sites of terror infrastructure in the...

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A Hezbollah-allied newspaper, As-Safir, recently published a series reports on the massive infrastructure, including a network of tunnels, that the Iranian-backed terrorist organization has been building on Lebanon’s border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. According to the Times, Hezbollah is “painting a picture of a military force highly prepared for...

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As many as five rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza this evening, the result of a feud among Palestinian terrorists, The Times of Israel reported today. One projectile was located near Gan Yavneh, minutes after the red-alert sirens sounded in the Lachish region and Ashdod, the Israeli army said...

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The Palestinian Authority rejected compromise terms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined for restarting peace talks with Israel, The Times of Israel reported today. The Palestinian Authority refuses to resume negotiations with Israel without Israeli recognition of the pre-1967 borders as the basis for talks and of East Jerusalem as the future...

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Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm headed by Warren Buffett, has invested $22.5 million in eVolution Networks, a company that has developed a technology to use cell phone base stations more efficiently saving energy, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. With its Smart Energy Solution (SES) technology, eVolution conducts both a thorough...

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