The UK Israel Tech Hub, based in the British Embassy in Israel, has led to 175 tech partnerships and 54 deals worth a cumulative £85 million ($112.8 million), according to a new report on its impact. The potential UK economic impact of the UK-Israel innovation partnerships established through the hub...

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In an interview with a Palestinian newspaper about the developing United States Middle East peace proposal, Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, said that though he sought to work with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, he questioned the Palestinian leader, “has the ability to, or...

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Israeli tax refund startup ReFundit, founded by Waze co-founder Uri Levine and by CEO Ziv Tirosh, is preparing to launch a joint pilot in several European countries. Levine announced in a press conference on Monday that the launch will begin in Slovakia, which is also the first country where Waze...

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In an op-ed published in The Algemeiner on Thursday, Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of the Israel Project, said that Hamas, the terrorist group in complete control of the Gaza Strip, “in its efforts to fulfill the terms of its genocidal charter, will continue to inflame the region with...

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Dahlia St. Knives, a transsexual activist and writer, said she doesn’t feel “safe” at the Chicago Dyke March as a black Jewish woman, after organizers failed to apologize for the discrimination of two Jewish women at the event last year. At the annual LGBTQ march in Chicago in 2017, organizers...

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IBM’s new artificial intelligence (AI) system engaged in the first ever live, public debate with two Israeli student debating champions on Monday, demonstrating the computer’s ability to deliver persuasive arguments against humans on complex topics. Named Project Debater, the AI was unveiled at IBM’s Watson West site in San Francisco,...

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Israel has deployed a system to track balloons and kites carrying burning material across the border from Gaza, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The tracking system, called Sky Spotter, was developed Rafael Advanced Defense Systems as a countermeasure to be used against small drones. According to Israel’s Hadashot news...

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A 20-year-old Palestinian indicted Thursday on terror-related charges told Israeli authorities that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, paid his relatives to falsely tell the media that his baby cousin died of tear gas inhalation during the Hamas-orchestrated border riots. The Times of Israel reported that Mahmoud Omar...

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On April 16, 2018, the city of Durham in North Carolina became the first U.S. city to ban police exchanges with Israel, following a campaign orchestrated by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)- supporting organizations. As hurtful as the Durham City Council’s discrimination against...

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Last year’s stunning $12 billion acquisition of Kite Pharma, which commercialized made-in-Israel CAR-T technology to train a patient’s own immune system to attack lymphoma cells, has put the spotlight on Israeli cancer research. Immunotherapy treatments like CAR-T hold enormous promise for addressing – and in some cases even curing –...

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