Following a trip to Israel by both Labour and Conservative Members of Parliament to promote bilateral ties, the United Kingdom announced a “landmark” cooperation deal with Israel in the areas of aging and artificial intelligence in a statement released Friday. Aging and artificial intelligence are two of the four UK government’s Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges....

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When Syria ascended to the role of presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament for one month on Monday, Robert Wood, the United States ambassador to the conference, called it “one of the darkest days in the history of the Conference on Disarmament.” The week at the U.N. did not get...

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A German domestic intelligence agency has deemed the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel as a “new variation of antisemitism” in a newly released report. This is believed to be the first instance of a German intelligence service classifying the BDS movement as anti-Semitic and a security threat,...

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Israeli researchers have developed a nanotechnology that replaces the surgical scalpel with an “enzymatic blade.” The novel technology is based on enzymes – biological molecules the body uses to repair itself — as well as nanoparticles for achieving a targeted therapeutic profile. In an article published recently in ACS Nano,...

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After firing more than 110 rockets and mortars into Israel over two days, Gaza-based terror groups have apparently agreed to a ceasefire The New York Times reported Wednesday. Hamas, the terrorist group that exercises complete military and political control over Gaza, announced that it had returned to the Egyptian-brokered understandings...

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The Czech Republic on Tuesday reopened its honorary consulate in Jerusalem, after Czech President Milos Zeman said his country wishes to move the Czech embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported. Founded in the early 1990s, the Czech honorary consulate in Jerusalem was closed in 2016...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday said all non-Syrian forces should withdraw from southwestern Syria as soon as possible, echoing his calls from earlier this week in an attempt to cool tensions between Israel and Iran. The Times of Israel reported that Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is scheduled to...

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The classic chicken-or-egg conundrum does not keep poultry farm designers from the Israeli firm Agrotop awake at night. They’re too busy solving other challenges, like how to build a chicken house on the steep Himalayan slopes of Nepal. Or how to construct a 60,000-layer egg house in the Canary Islands on a...

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On Monday, the United States-based entertainment company, Live Nation, confirmed that Shakira had never scheduled a performance in Israel this July, but that the company and pop icon “hope” that she will do a show in Israel “in the future,” The Jerusalem Post reported. After several media reports wrongly indicated that...

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What happened More than 30 mortars and rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorist groups towards Israeli communities on Tuesday with at least 25 intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system in the most severe military flare-up since Operation Protective Edge in 2014. “This is a...

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