Israel-based Wix.com was one of 15 businesses that bought Super Bowl ads for the first time Sunday. Bloomberg News reports: In Wix’s ad, the football players open fictional small businesses with matching websites. Favre, who won the championship with the Green Bay Packers in 1997, starts a charcuterie store (Favre...

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An international team of researchers has just revealed its discovery of a rare 55,000-year-old partial skull in a cave in northern Israel. Their report, “Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans,” suggests that this find provides new clues about the migration of modern humans out...

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In an essay for Politico Magazine, former State Department advisor Aaron David Miller called the American-Israeli diplomatic relationship “too big to fail.” Among other observations, Miller writes that the current turmoil in the Middle East underscores America’s “need for traditional friends who are able to offer stability,” and that with...

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Employees of Israel Aerospace Industries last week gathered to pose for a “space selfie” (embedded video below) Yahoo! News reported Friday. Three hundred employees from Israel Aerospace Industries, or IAI, arranged themselves to spell out the company’s initials, for what they call a space selfie. That’s because the selfie was...

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TouchéMedical is developing a low-cost ‘smart’ patch pump designed for patients of all ages with diabetes, Parkinson’s and other chronic conditions. The patch pumps worn by many people with diabetes are a game-changer in managing the daily infusions of insulin needed to control their chronic condition. Now an Israeli father-son...

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Everybody agrees that producing energy from wind, sun and other renewable resources makes good sense, but it won’t be widely adopted unless it makes good “cents,” too. One of the cost hurdles to be overcome is storing the energy from renewable sources in a way that efficiently matches the electricity generated to the...

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Hezbollah’s increased activity in the Syrian Golan Heights is a sign of an Iranian effort to “militarily encircle” Israel, Phillip Smyth wrote in an analysis for Foreign Policy on Wednesday. While the Jan. 18 attack represents another saga in the long-running war between Israel and Hezbollah, it also underlines a...

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More than ten thousand Gaza teenagers graduated this week from a terrorist training program given by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a paramilitary group run by the terrorist organization Hamas. Under a program named “Pioneers of the Resistance,” the Palestinian youths – aged 15 to 21 – underwent intensive military...

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Norway’s largest charitable organization, the Olav Thon Foundation, has announced that its first international research award in medical and natural sciences will go to Prof. Yosef Shiloh of Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Prof. Judith Campisi of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in California. The two scientists will split the prize...

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An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday night condemned the death earlier that day of a Spanish peacekeeper in the Golan Heights, but failed to address the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s rocket attack on an IDF convoy, killing two Israeli soldiers and wounding seven more. Before the meeting, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations...

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