Indian Information Technology group, Tech Mahindra, inked a deal last week with Comverse, an Israeli-American engineering company to open a research and development center in Israel, Reuters reported Wednesday. Manish Vyas, president of Tech Mahindra’s communications group, told Reuters the deal — which would bring the Indian company hundreds of...

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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology announced that their respective subsidiaries have entered into an exclusive worldwide research and license agreement that can potentially lead to the development of novel anti-cancer drugs. The agreement aims at the development of a joint project, based on new...

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Israel has successfully tested an advanced tunnel detection system near the Gaza border, and plans to expand the deployment of the systems, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The new system was already successfully trialed in recent months along parts of the border, and is now expected to be expanded further,...

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At a meeting between President Barack Obama and American-Jewish leaders this week, one of the participants said that the president “didn’t dismiss” Iran’s genocidal threats against Israel, but also that “he just didn’t really address it,” Lee Smith reported Thursday for Tablet. “It was one of the tensest meetings I can ever remember,” said...

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A patented smartphone technology, originally created for the blind, has now been built into a steering-wheel-mounted controller and app to help sighted drivers use smartphone apps on the road without looking at their handsets. The team behind RayGo, Project RAY, previously developed the world’s first smartphone for people with visual...

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The next 9/11-style terror attack will be perpetrated by hackers infiltrating an air traffic control system or other critical infrastructure, according to Col. (res.) Dr. Gabi Siboni, director of the Cyber Security Program at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The Times of Israel reported  on Siboni’s assessment Wednesday. “Computer hackers...

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Speaking at a ceremony commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a speech delivered Wednesday evening at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum that the nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran showed that the West had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust, Ynet reported: The Israeli prime minister...

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A particular protein that defies the cell’s normal system of tagging and banishing defective or no longer needed proteins seems to play a significant role in suppressing malignant growth, according to Israeli researchers. The study was conducted at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Professor Aaron Ciechanover,...

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Apple purchased an Israeli digital photography startup to help improve the camera in the iPhone, which has been challenged by other smartphones’ camera capabilities, The Times of Israel reported today: On his recent trip to Israel, Apple CEO Tim Cook predicted that the company would make new acquisitions in the near future – and...

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Hamas has accelerated the rebuilding of its terror tunnels, which were destroyed last summer during Operation Protective Edge, even as it neglects rebuilding homes that were damaged during its war against Israel, The Times of Israel reported today. Hamas has begun using heavy machinery and engineering tools to accelerate the excavation of...

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