In talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Putin that Israel would not tolerate an Iranian military presence in Syria or making Lebanon into “factory for precision missiles” to attack Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Regarding Iranian efforts to establish a base of operations...

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At the end of December, we reported on the airlift of a critically ill newborn boy to Sheba Medical Center’s Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital in Israel, just days after he was born to Syrian refugees in Cyprus. ISRAEL21c has just received an update on the successful treatment of the infant’s...

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The American Special Representative for International Negotiations, who is currently in Israel, blasted Hamas for prioritizing the building of “tunnels & rockets” at the expense of “getting the lights on, the water flowing & the economy growing” for the people of Gaza, as he toured southern Israel and was briefed...

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Following President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold America’s contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), The New York Times reported that a number of aid organizations wrote a letter pleading for the administration to restore the funding. The letter called the decision to withhold the funds a “dangerous...

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The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously to rescind a resolution passed two weeks ago, which was backed by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The earlier resolution, while not explicitly mentioning Israel, stated that the city had “social and ethical obligations to...

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An Israeli startup specializing in neurological disorders is the winner of Henry Ford Health System’s first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) challenge. Montfort (Mon4T)’s real-time brain monitor leverages smartphone technology to conduct, record and analyze data from a set of digital tests from patients with conditions like Parkinson’s disease and normal pressure...

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The number of Arab students attending Israeli universities has increased by 78.5% over the past seven years, according to new research by Israel’s Council for Higher Education (CHE), The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. In total, the number of Arab students in Israeli universities grew from 26,000 in 2010...

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Hotel stays can take a big chunk out of your wallet, in large part because of high operating expenses. But if a hotel could save up to 20 percent by better managing its heating and cooling systems, maybe that savings would be passed on to the consumer. Israeli startup Vortex Energy has...

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Rather than helping to resolve the Palestinian refugee issue peacefully, the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) actually works to prolong it and promote violence. On January 16, President Trump announced that the US would donate only $60 million out of an expected $125 million to UNRWA, and has been threatening...

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What happens when a communications satellite runs out of juice? That’s a problem Effective Space hopes to address with its life-extending Space Drone. Effective Space, which has its R&D center in Tel Aviv and headquarters in London, last week signed a $100 million multi-year contract with a major regional satellite...

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