International credit rating agency Moody’s reported Tuesday that Israel’s investment grade remains at an A1 sovereign rating, and that the country’s economy maintains a stable outlook, despite this summer’s conflict with Hamas. The A1 ranking is fifth highest on Moody’s scale, reflecting a mid to upper grade investment climate with a...

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Omri Ceren writes in the lead article of the October 2014 issue of Commentary Magazine that, contrary to the claims of Hamas and several critics of Israel, the IDF defeated Hamas in this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge. Ceren is the managing director for press and strategy at The Israel Project, publisher of...

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West-African based tech company, Code Innovation, with the help of a volunteer team from Chile, Lebanon, Kenya, Senegal and Gambia, have turned to an Israeli technology platform, Snapp, to create a free “About Ebola” mobile application to support public health outreach and communication efforts to educate the public about the...

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Palestinian leaders over the weekend lashed out against the State Department, after Foggy Bottom harshly criticized a speech given by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas charted a diplomatic path that would see the Palestinians abandoning negotiations with Israel in favor of international legal warfare against the...

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In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel (embedded below), UN Watch’s executive director, Hillel Neuer, revealed that human rights icon Aryeh Neier, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, opposed the appointment of William Schabas to investigate Israel’s conduct...

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On Wednesday, an Egyptian blogger who was recently nominated for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov Prize had his name withdrawn by the group that initially nominated him on account of his call for the murder of Israelis. In a press release, European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) leader Gabi Zimmer explained...

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“Islamic resistance,” a byword for attacks on Israel if not the country’s destruction, is a “religious and human duty,” according to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani. Slamming the Tel Aviv regime as the major threat to the world, Shamkhani called on the whole Muslim nation to close...

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Intel recently got the go-ahead from Israel’s Finance and Economy Ministries to invest $6 billion in the remodeling of its chip manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat. The leading PC chipmaker will receive a grant of $300 million and tax concessions in return. Although the high-tech company has not released a...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday spoke at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, giving a speech that the Jerusalem Post described as “vintage Netanyahu,” and one that leaned heavily on what has become the consensus understanding of the Middle East as divided into three regional blocs....

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The dream of every startup is to foresee and capitalize on revolutionary trends, and the video technology company Kaltura has been doing just that. Founded in 2006 by Israeli serial entrepreneurs Ron Yekutiel, Shay David, Michal Tsur and Eran Etam, Kaltura was listed by Forbes last June as one of...

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