With peace negotiations again on indefinite hold, the Israeli government is still determining the best course of action given the recent unity deal between the Palestinian Authority and the terrorist organization Hamas. Observers from across the world are keeping a keen eye on both parties, eagerly waiting the next turn...

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Intel announced this week that it would increase its investment in its Kiryat Gat facility, known as Fab 28, by $6 billion. David Shamah, technology reporter for the Times of Israel, writes that the expanded facility will produce 10-nanometer chips, which are used in “wearable technology and perceptual computing devices.” Intel...

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The Times of Israel on Wednesday conveyed leaks from Israeli negotiators revealing that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had repeatedly rebuffed a series of Israeli proposals aimed at bridging the gaps regarding Jerusalem’s long-standing condition that the Palestinians acknowledge Israel as a “Jewish state”: The terminology recognizing Israel’s Jewish...

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While many diplomats in the European Union are hailing the unity agreement between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas as a necessary step for peace, the EU’s Ambassador to Israel qualified that praise with a stark reminder of the nature of Hamas. In remarks made to the Israeli news site Walla...

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Israel’s internal the security agency, the Shin Bet, announced the arrests of seven men in a Hamas terror cell for planning attacks within Israel. The arrests, which were made in recent months, were announced this week. The cell was based in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya, which borders the Israeli...

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Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth on Wednesday reported on what the outlet described as a “massive show of force” by Hamas in the Ramallah stronghold of the rival Palestinian Fatah faction, a development likely to deepen emerging analyst concerns that a recently announced unity agreement between the two organizations may end...

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In a recent analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Ambassador Dore Gold writes that often when the profile of Hamas rises, “there is an effort undertaken to repackage Hamas as a moderate organization.” However, Gold argues, that Hamas’s record – in word and deed – shatters those efforts time and...

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Israeli high-tech companies raised $673 million in venture capital during the first quarter of 2014. Reuters reported on the findings of the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center: “The bullish U.S. capital market and capital raising for technology companies via IPOs on Nasdaq in the last 12 months have been drivers of venture capital, both...

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The Washington Examiner on Friday outlined a scenario under which the next war in the Middle East may break out as a result of what the outlet described as competing “Israeli and Lebanese claims over a potentially lucrative plot of [underwater] territory,” with the recently formed Lebanese government set to...

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At the same time a report on the incidence of anti-Semitism in Europe was presented, an Israeli man was attacked by six Palestinians in Berlin. On Sunday European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor presented a study of European anti-Semitism (.pdf) for 2013 at Tel Aviv University. The Jerusalem Post highlighted some of Kantor’s remarks during...

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