The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is encouraging more women to enlist in their prestigious pilots courses, in an effort to increase gender integration in the military, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. “A plane doesn’t care if it’s a woman or a man flying it. The Air Force wants the...

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Israeli media have reported that the Syrian regime is preparing to expand its area of control in the south of the country near the border with Israel. Amos Harel, writing in Haaretz, concludes that the regime’s conquest of Aleppo, Dir a-Zur and al-Raqqa has freed up the army and Shi’ite militias...

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Big-data, artificial intelligence and connectivity startups in Tel Aviv-based business accelerator The Junction now have access to commercial collaborations and investment opportunities from Ohio and Germany due to two separate partnership agreements. The first partnership, dubbed the Israel-Youngstown Business Incubator Collaborative (I-YBI), facilitates 3D printing business collaborations. Youngstown, Ohio, is the home...

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In his speech on Monday, outlining America’s national security strategy, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his commitments to supporting peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians as well as fighting Iran’s “malign influence.” The President highlighted that regional dynamics have overtaken the peace process. “For generations, the conflict between Israel...

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The scene was shocking: Villagers in Akuyam, Uganda, hadn’t eaten in three days when Sivan Ya’ari and her Innovation: Africa  staff met them in February 2017 on their way to check on the organization’s solar water-pumping and drip-irrigation projects in six nearby villages. “The state of poverty we saw there was nothing...

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Monday that the veto she cast against a U.N. Security Council resolution reaffirming previous Security Council resolutions that do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, was a “defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East...

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The Israeli army bombed Hamas targets in Gaza in response to missile fire Sunday night. Three missiles were fired from Gaza towards Israel. One exploded in the Ashkelon beach area, damaging the external wall of a house and a family car. A second exploded in open area, causing no damage or...

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Seven Israeli companies appear on this year’s AI 100 list compiled by San Francisco-based CB Insights, joining 92 other private artificial intelligence technology companies from nine countries, chosen from more than 1,000 candidates. Israeli companies are Applitools (app validation), Cybereason (computer cybersecurity), Dynamic Yield (marketing technology) OrCam (wearable artificial vision device), Prospera (computer vision for plant health), Twiggle(ecommerce search engine), and Workey (automated career networking)....

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Nearly 16 years ago, in early January 2002, the Israeli navy intercepted the Karine-A, a weapons laden ship, in the Red Sea on its way to the Palestinian Authority from Iran. The capture of the ship and the intelligence gleaned from it by Israel forced the United States to go...

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Jewish leaders and Israeli diplomats blasted the Palestinian Authority’s chief diplomat to the United Kingdom after he boasted of beating up an Israeli student when he was a graduate student in the United States, Jewish News Service (JNS) reported Wednesday. In a recent interview with a Lebanese television station, Manuel...

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