If you could create a symbolic portrait of Israel’s youthful startup culture, it might look a lot like Michael Matias of Tel Aviv. At 19, Matias has already made an international splash as an entrepreneur and tech visionary. After graduating as valedictorian of the class of 2014 at the Walworth-Barbour...

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A United Nations inquiry into incidents that occurred at UN facilities during last summer’s Operation Protective Edge confirmed Israel’s charges that Hamas used those facilities to store weapons and launch attacks against Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon charged that Palestinian militants had stored weapons in three UN...

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An analyst with close ties to the Iranian defense ministry has said that Iranian, Syrian, and Hezbollah officials will meet shortly to discuss their combined response to recent attacks in Syria that have been attributed to Israel. Amir Mousavi, director of the Center for Strategic and International Relations in Tehran and a...

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Hezbollah has been taking taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to try and create a “deterrent balance” against Israel, according to an analysis written by Avi Issacharoff and published Monday in The Times of Israel. Hezbollah has been using Druze, Palestinians and, of course, Assad’s own troops to strike at...

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Tiny but powerfully influential in myriad ways: That could describe Israel itself, but it also describes the nanotechnology advances made by Israeli academia and industry. And that was the message that 1,000 attendees of  – Europe’s largest nanotechnology conference – received loud and clear from 10 Israeli companies and their...

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A group of 500 academics, calling themselves “Concerned Academics for Editorial Ethics,” have published an open letter to the editor and publisher of the medical journal The Lancet, asking them to retract a controversial anti-Israel letter published last year, according to a report Sunday by the media watchdog HonestReporting. A group of 500...

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Following air strikes widely attributed to Israel against weapons shipment to Hezbollah along the Syria-Lebanon border, Arab media reported on a new attack in Syrian territory early Monday morning. The latest attack on Syrian and Hezbollah assets, it is now being reported, was the work of Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels and not Israel. Overnight, Al Jazeera (Arabic...

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The Israeli Air Force spotted and struck a group of infiltrators laying a mine on the Israel-Syria border Sunday night, The Times of Israel reported: An Israeli airstrike targeted and killed a group of militants who were spotted placing an explosive on the northern border Sunday night, the army said, a...

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Israeli are turning to Facebook and other social media platforms to try and learn about missing loved ones in Nepal, following a devastating earthquake that struck the Himalayan nation. 200 Israelis were initially reported missing in Nepal, but more recent reports put the number at about 150. The Times of...

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Israel has announced that it will send aid to Nepal, which was struck by an earthquake Saturday. The quake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, and killed more than 2,500 people. The Times of Israel reports: A source in the Prime Minister’s Office said that Israel was to send emergency...

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