On March 11, Santa Clara-based NVIDIA announced that it will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox of Yokne’am, Israel, in a deal representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Founded in 1999, Mellanox pioneered the InfiniBand interconnect technology, which along with its high-speed Ethernet products is now...

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Despite the media attention she’s been getting for her controversial remarks about Israel and American Jews, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D – Minn.), and the movement she represents will not “succeed in breaking up the U.S.-Israel alliance,” a prominent historian said in a column published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal....

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Israel has closed the Temple Mount following a firebomb attack on the police station there, The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday. The riots took place after Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that there would be “no second mosque on the Temple Mount” and expressed hope that Jews would be...

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Doing good is a noble thing, but it’s not the most lucrative business model out there, right? Jerusalem-based global investment platform OurCrowd put the lie to that assumption at its annual Global Investor Summit on March 7, 2019. “We truly believe in this double bottom line. We are absolutely convinced that we...

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United States Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ambassador to Israel David Friedman toured attack tunnels on Sunday, which were dug by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, JNS reported. “The tunnels have been used by groups like Hamas to smuggle...

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The United States envoy in charge of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians defended Israel’s decision to stop transferring taxes collected to the Palestinian Authority by the amount the PA was paying terrorists and their families, The New York Times reported Friday. “If your citizens were being routinely attacked by...

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Israel Defense Forces medical missions always fly to disaster zones with tons of medical equipment. For David “Dush” Barashi, the most critical piece of equipment is his red nose. A veteran member of Israel’s Dream Doctors Project, Barashi and fellow medical clowns take the skills they hone daily in Israeli hospitals...

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Israel increased the number of work permits it is issuing to Jordanians for employment in Eilat by 33% to 2,000, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The permits will allow Jordanians to work during the day in the resort town, located not far from the border, and return home at night....

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In light of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D- Minn.) recent anti-Semitic statements, The Israel Project CEO and President, Joshua S. Block, told PBS in a TV interview Thursday that the congresswoman had used “specific language that seeks to marginalize and stigmatize Jewish participation in the political process, in a way that’s...

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On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2019, the delegation of the European Union in Israel, led by Ambassador Emanuele Giaufret, hosted a series of events to highlight gender equality and diversity of women in Israeli society, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. “Gender equality and equal opportunities for women and...

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