Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York Monday evening, marking the first time in more than a decade that prime ministers of the two countries met. The Times of Israel reports: […] India is also one of Israel’s most important trade partners in the...
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Sunday, The Times of Israel excerpted an interview Lady Gaga gave last week to The Independent. “Oh it was fantastic!” said Lady Gaga in an interview published Friday by The Independent, talking about her September 13 performance in Tel Aviv. “Tel Aviv was magnificent. The world view of Israel is...
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Pollution monitoring app BreezoMeter recently won the Startup Open contest in Israel and joined the list of the World’s Top 50 Most Promising Startups, also known as the GEW50. The BreezoMeter app was invented to make air pollution visible and get people to demand cleaner air. Using real time big data analysis, the...
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Based on “highly reliable information,” Israel’s Intelligence Minister, Yuval Steinitz charged today that Iran used its Parchin military base to test detonators for nuclear weapons. Reuters reports: A statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, issued a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – the architect of Tehran’s diplomacy with the...
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After a controversial career in politics, Shimon Peres reinvented himself as Israel’s president–and redefined the presidency. Now he has done the same with being an ex-president–and you have to admire the way he has begun his latest phase with a video launched this week showing a rather different face of the...
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Dr. Kamal Al-Labwani, considered one of the most prominent members of the Syrian opposition movement, was in Israel recently to visit the Syrian casualties hospitalized in the Ziv Medical Center near Safed (Tsfat). A Syrian doctor and artist, sometimes called “the Syrian Nelson Mandela,” Al-Labwani came to Israel to thank...
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Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) today published the translation of an article from the official Palestinian Authority paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida praising the treatment Palestinian workers receive from Israeli employers. The paper reported that “[w]henever Palestinian workers have the opportunity to work for Israeli employers, they are quick to quit their jobs with their Palestinian employers.”...
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Israel successfully shot down a Syrian jet fighter after it flew into Israeli territory early on September 23. Israel has repeatedly made clear it will only intervene in the Syrian civil war if Israeli sovereignty is challenged. The Israel Defense Forces initial report of the incident was posted to its...
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The Senate late Thursday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation establishing Israel as a “major strategic partner” of the United States, putting into motion expanded cooperation across areas as diverse as security, energy, and trade. The bill had been authored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo) and had gained 81...
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Archaeologists have long known about the massive 150 meter-long landmark near the Israeli city of Safed (Tsfat). But it wasn’t until recent work carried out by Ido Wachtel, a doctoral student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, that the structure was identified as a 5,000-year-old crescent-shaped stone monument. Archaeologists were mystified by...
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