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Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer was recently ranked by the Newsweek magazine as the 10th best hospital in the world. “Sheba Medical Center – or Tel HaShomer Hospital – in Ramat Gan is a leader in medical science and biotechnical innovation, both in the Middle East and worldwide,” the magazine explains. “The tertiary...

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Ahead of the planned riots at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, Egypt has warned Hamas to control the violence, as IDF troops have prepared to defend against attacks. Hamas has called for riots on Saturday, March 30, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Great March of Return. The...

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The virulently anti-Israel movement known as Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions — BDS — is roiling through campuses, overflowing into city councils, encroaching into corporate boardrooms, and now chomping at the essence of Israel’s special niche in the world: its travel and tourism industry. Everywhere, the boycotters have been asking to...

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When we returned from a free catered lunch, Shai Tamari, the conference organizer, announced that audience members were no longer allowed to record the conference. A few minutes later, Tamari leaned over me to tell the person sitting next to me to stop recording – my neighbor had been taking...

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McDonald's

Fast-food empire McDonald’s has acquired Dynamic Yield, an Israeli artificial intelligence startup specializing in personalization and decision logic technology. The move is set to offer a more personalized McDonald’s drive-thru customer experience in which outdoor menus will display food options based on the time of day, weather, restaurant traffic and trending...

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Jeremy Slevin, Rep. Omar's comms director, who said that anti-Semitism is right-wing

An aide to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.) is being criticized for a tweet in which he asserted that anti-Semitism “is a right-wing force,” the Washington Examiner reported Thursday. Jeremy Slevin, Omar’s communications director, wrote the phrase “Anti-semitism is right-wing force” eight times on his Twitter account on Tuesday, prompting an...

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Diplomacy

UAE FM Anwar Gargash

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) called the Arab world’s refusal to talk to Israel a “wrong decision” and predicted growing ties between those nations and the Jewish State in the coming years, Gulf News reported Wednesday. “Many, many years ago, when there was an Arab decision...

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MidEast

Air Strike in Syria; 7 Reported Killed

At least seven Iranians or Iranian-allied militia members were killed in an overnight airstrike against a weapons depot outside of Aleppo, Syria, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The casualties were reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors developments on the ground in Syria. This is the Fajr-5C...

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In the first conference presentation, titled “The (De) Development of Gaza: Economy, Women, and Youth,” both speakers, Sara Roy and Laila El-Haddad, and the moderator, Rebecca Stein, all are on record having supported various boycotts of Israel. El-Haddad is a vocal supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign...

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Diplomacy

March 26, 2019 marks the fourth decade since the signing of the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty. It is a bittersweet anniversary. Relations between Israel and Egypt have long been described as a “cold peace” with little person-to-person contact – so different from the euphoria of the early Eighties when Israelis...

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