Israeli-made television formats are once again a hot ticket at MIPCOM, the annual entertainment and TV market held in Cannes every October. Turkey, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden and Spain have all signed deals for new original Israeli game shows and reality formats. Armoza has signed four deals for their new...

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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday openly mocked boasts still being floated by top figures from the Palestinian Hamas faction – the most significant rival to his own Fatah faction – to the effect that the terror group had emerged victorious from its confrontations with Israel over the...

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Working in the computational biology laboratory of Prof. Eytan Ruppin at Tel Aviv University’s Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Yizhak and colleagues at Bar-Ilan University have developed a computer algorithm that predicts which genes can be “turned off” to create the same anti-aging effect as calorie restriction. Their findings were...

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An article yesterday in BloombergBusinessweek outlined Israeli expectations that the recently discovered Tamar and Leviathan natural gas fields will pay off politically as well as economically. “There are now extraordinary opportunities for Israel based on energy policy, both economically and diplomatically,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon. “This is...

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On the final evening of a September 2‐10 tour of Israel with Heroes to Heroes , a US Army veteran named Juan told ISRAEL21c: “Instead of the VA [Veterans Administration] spending money on our medical treatment, they should have spent money on this program, because more healing was done here.”...

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On Monday, The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) sent a letter (.pdf) to the management of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles calling on them to “do the right thing and fulfill their legal obligations to prevent unlawful discrimination before it happens at the Westin Bonaventure.” At issue is...

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Israeli chemist Yifat Miller and her PhD student Yoav Atsmon-Raz have found a critical link between Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Miller’s research at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev in Beersheva revealed, for the first time, the atomic structure of a brain protein fragment called non-amyloid...

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Israel Hayom reported yesterday that the Israeli navy announced the successful test of a naval anti-missile system. The Israeli Navy secretly tested an upgraded anti-missile system designed to protect naval vessels several months ago. The test was crowned a success. … The test was conducted as part of a general overhaul of...

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It would seem that Dr. Seuss, in his book Green Eggs and Ham, knew that food would taste better when eaten at a different location. Now, a University of Haifa study, in cooperation with the Riken Institute, shows there’s a link between the areas of the brain responsible for taste...

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Speculation continues to deepen surrounding last Monday’s mysterious explosion at Iran’s Parchin military base, where it is widely believed – including by the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) – that the Iranians conducted tests relevant to the development of nuclear warheads. Official Iranian outlets had acknowledged early in the week that...

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