The largest investment in an Israeli company during April 2018 was $70 million raised by Caesarea-based V-Wave, which is about to start multicenter clinical trials of its minimally invasive implanted interatrial shunt device for treating patients with severe symptomatic heart failure. The round was led by Deerfield Management with participation of...

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A blaze started by kites carrying burning fuel have ignited fields in southern Israel requiring ten teams of firefighters to fight them, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The fires were the largest since Palestinians participating in riots led by the terrorist group Hamas started adopting the tactic. The area...

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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva announced the development of a new and accurate method of screening for early breast cancer, using inexpensive technology for breath and urine analysis. The team of Israeli researchers used two different “electronic nose” gas sensors for...

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World soccer powerhouse Argentina will travel to Israel to play a friendly match between the national teams despite pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign to cancel the game, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. The BDS movement, which promotes the boycott of Israel, launched a campaign “Argentina don’t go,” or...

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During a dramatic press conference Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that Israeli agents had broken into a secret Iranian facility and spirited out a half ton of documents showing the history and extent of Iran’s nuclear weapon program. The evidence, Netanyahu said, showed conclusively that Iran had lied about...

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This summer, as the FIFA World Cup is underway in Russia, the historic gates of Jerusalem’s Old City will transform into a goalpost as Jews and Arabs join together for a special soccer event. The gathering is set to bring some 200 young players from the eastern and western sides...

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Israel had broken into a top-secret Iranian installation and recovered thousands of documents showing that Iran had “brazenly lied” and remains committed to a clandestine nuclear weapons program despite the 2015 nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a press conference Monday. Hailing the recovery of Iran’s “atomic...

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman lashed out at the Palestinian leadership for rejecting opportunities for peace with Israel for decades during a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York last month. The Saudi royal said Palestinian leaders should either accept peace proposals offered by the United States or “shut...

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Where do old websites go to die? Publicly available Internet has been part of modern life for almost three decades. Israel joined the World Wide Web in 1994 and, like its counterparts around the world, began producing an endless stream of ephemeral content. The fact that bits and bytes are...

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Hundreds of Palestinians participating in Hamas-led riots for the fifth straight week, motivated to reclaim “all of Palestine,” attempted to tear down the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. According to the IDF, “In the last hour, over 10,000...

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