Water filtration systems from Israeli company NUFiltration were donated to Cameroon to help fight a cholera epidemic there. As ISRAEL21c reported in July, NUFiltration acquires and sterilizes used kidney dialysis filters that would otherwise be discarded and repurposes them in several filtration products. One of these products, meant especially for hard-to-reach rural areas of...

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Israel struck two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas renewed violent riots at the border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Friday. An estimated 7,000 Gazans participated in the riots. Some threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops. The IDF reportedly used live fire against rioters,...

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Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have pride of place in the newly released 2018-2019 edition of PitchBook Universities, a compendium of the 50 universities producing the most VC-backed entrepreneurs between January 2016 and June 2018. While the list for undergraduate programs was topped...

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The United States ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said on Thursday that he expects the Golan Heights to remain under Israeli control “forever,” The Times of Israel reported, signalling a possible shift in policy in line with Israel’s claims over the strategic mountainous plateau. Israel captured the territory from Syria...

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Israel unveiled an 11 kilometer (7.5 miles) , 9 meter (29.5 feet) high wall that it has erected along its border with Lebanon as part of its efforts to prevent terrorist infiltrations by the Iranian-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah, from the north, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. A senior military...

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A new “Antisemitism Tracker” was launched by a watchdog group on Wednesday, which monitors and combats anti-Jewish activity on American college campuses, in the hope to assist the public in navigating incidents that have taken place nationwide since 2015, The Algemeiner reported. The AMCHA Initiative’s new search engine offers users...

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Ten episodes of gritty Israeli teenage drama TV series “Euphoria” are being created for an English-speaking audience by HBO. The series will be produced by Canadian rapper Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) and his manager and DJ, Adel Nur, whose stage name is Future the Prince. In a way, Drake is...

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The IDF said that it struck more than 200 Iranian military targets in Syria over the past year and a half, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The army also fired over 800 missiles and mortar shells in its effort to prevent Iran from establishing a military presence in Syria. The IDF’s...

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Two Israeli researchers have launched an initiative that has transformed the way we understand the meaning of extinction and created a collaborative platform for Arabs and Israelis to explore. In fact, scientists throughout the Middle East, including in Jerusalem, Riyadh and Marrakesh, are looking to J-Date to solve global challenges....

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Hamas’s Gaza-based leader said that the violent riots at Israel’s border, known as the Great March of Return, that began in late March were orchestrated to shift attention away from the failure of the main Palestinians political factions to arrive at a power-sharing agreement, Ynet reported Tuesday. “After the reconciliation efforts (between Hamas...

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