Cloud storage provider Dropbox has acquired Israeli startup CloudOn for an undisclosed price. The Herzliya-based cloud service offers users the tools to edit Microsoft Office documents from their mobile devices. The CloudOn team thanked its users in a blog post while announcing the buyout. “From the beginning, my co-founders and...

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This month, two Israeli pharmaceutical companies received good news from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Jerusalem’s Gamida Cell was granted orphan product development status for NiCord, its enriched stem-cell treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome. Orphan drug designation promotes the development of promising...

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At least 12 people were wounded Wednesday morning, four of them seriously, when a Palestinian from the West Bank suddenly drew a knife and started stabbing people on a crowded passenger bus during Tel Aviv’s morning rush hour, Ynet reported. At roughly 7:15 am a terrorist boarded Dan Line 40...

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Before leaving Israel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to cooperate with the Jewish state to fight terror, The Japan Times reported yesterday: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to work together to enhance anti-terrorism measures as they held talks Sunday in Jerusalem, Japanese officials said....

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The presence of a convoy carrying senior Hezbollah operatives and Iranian military personnel in Syria near the border with Israel suggests that they were “planning an operation against Israel on a high level,” Major- General (Res.) Eyal Ben-Reuven said in a conference call with reporters Monday. On Sunday an Israeli air...

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One of the twelve terrorists killed in yesterday’s air strike on a Hezbollah convoy in Syria was identified by Iran as a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Times of Israel reported today, citing a source who was quoted by Agence France-Presse. “The Israeli strike killed six...

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The Arab media is giving intense coverage to Sunday’s attack just inside the Syria-Israel border, which was attributed to Israel. Jihad Mughniyeh, a Hezbollah commander and son of notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, was killed along with at least nine others in an airstrike Sunday against a convoy in the Syrian section...

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Jihad Mughniyeh, a Hezbollah commander and son of notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, was killed along with at least nine others today in Israeli airstrikes against a convoy in the Syrian section of the Golan Heights. The Daily Star of Lebanon reports: An Israeli helicopter strike on Syria’s Golan Heights Sunday killed...

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Heavy industries generate a lot of heat and emit a lot of CO2 to the atmosphere. An Israeli startup, NewCO2Fuels (NCF) turns these two streams of waste into profitable products and recently won an award and two major grants for its innovation. For millions of years, plant life has been...

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A trial to determine the civil liability of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority (PA) in terror attacks in Israel between 2001 and 2004 opened in New York on Wednesday. According to the New York Post: The PLO and PA are accused of plotting and funding seven terrorism attacks...

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