On April 16, 2018, the Durham City Council in North Carolina unanimously passed a resolution banning police exchanges and training between Israel’s military and the city’s police department. The anti-Semitic move was orchestrated by the fringe organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)-supporting groups...

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Videos enticing tourists to vacation in Israel and other countries will be produced automatically from text by an Israeli-developed artificial intelligence algorithm, thanks to collaboration between the online tourism giant TripAdvisor and Israeli video-creation company Wibbitz. Wibbitz’s innovative technology scans, analyzes, and summarizes TripAdvisor articles, converting them into professional-quality video ready...

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A day after receiving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan’s King Abdullah met with President Donald Trump’s chief Middle East negotiators, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Tuesday. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, and Jason Greenblatt, the administration’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, discussed “increasing cooperation between...

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The deceptively named group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) opened its first campaign to engage elected city officials in government-sanctioned discrimination with a highly organized, nationally-assisted attack on the Jewish people of Durham, North Carolina. JVP persuaded the Durham City Council to officially adopt an anti-Israel position, without any effort...

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“When Heroes Fly,” the Israeli hit drama that took best series at the inaugural TV festival at Cannes in April, is being adapted into English for audiences in the United States. Variety reports that Keshet International, the global production and distribution arm of Israeli media company Keshet, which produced the...

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A major Hamas terror cell, which was based in the West Bank city of Nablus and was planning bombing attacks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, was broken up in April, the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced Sunday. The cell was reported to be experienced in various terrorist activities,...

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A Gazan was killed as he attempted to breach the border fence with Israel, as Gazans continue to send fire kites and other incendiary devices across the border, The Times of Israel reported Monday. A group of five Gazans attempted to penetrate the border with Israel. At the time of...

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Automotive technology companies building collision detection systems abound, but usually they’re intended only for the vehicle. We’ve written about a number of Israeli startups doing just that, including Innoviz, Cognata, Oryx Vision and Autotalks. Foresight Automotive’s Eye-Net is different: It can send an alert to both the vehicle driver and any pedestrians...

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In a 2013 news item on Iran’s annual Quds Day march, the Associated Press reported that newly elected President Hassan Rouhani said at the event that Israel was an “old wound” that needed to be removed. The AP later provided some context for those remarks, “Rouhani spoke at an annual pro-Palestinian rally...

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A German arts and music festival said on Wednesday that it was cancelling a concert by the Scottish band Young Fathers due to the group’s support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which targets the Jewish State. The Algemeiner reported that Ruhrtriennale festival posted a press release...

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