Israel has offered Sri Lanka assistance in the aftermath of devastating suicide bombings at churches and hotels on Easter Sunday that left nearly 300 people dead and more than 500 injured. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “deep shock over the murderous attacks against innocent civilians in Sri Lanka.” The...

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Beijing Capital International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world with more over 100 million passengers passing through in 2018, has selected an Israeli technology to improve runway safety, efficiency and capacity. Tel Aviv-based Xsight Systems’ foreign object debris (FOD) detection solution, RunWize, uses sophisticated image and radar-processing...

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The Old City of Jerusalem and its walls are a UNESCO World Heritage site and the most visited place in the State of Israel, with some 10 million yearly visitors. But navigating the narrow, crowded cobblestoned lanes and uneven stone stairs is hard or impossible for anyone with difficulty walking,...

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Israel was created to fulfill the ancient promise of the Prophet Jeremiah: “Your children will return to their own land” (31:17). Jews from 130 countries who speak more than 100 different languages have immigrated to Israel. Nearly 70 years after its founding, Israel is a technological powerhouse, in part because...

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The United States published for the first time on Tuesday a map showing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, three weeks after the country officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the strategic plateau. The map shows the 1974 ceasefire line between Israel and the Syrian regime as a permanent border, whereas...

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Israeli high-tech companies continue to attract significant investment: $1.55 billion in 128 deals was raised in the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report from Tel Aviv-based IVC Research Center and ZAG-S&W international commercial law firm. That’s 28 percent more capital and 15 percent more deals compared with...

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On Sunday, April 14, a delegation of 11 Israeli experts landed in Ethiopia to assist local firefighters working to extinguish a complex forest fire in Simien Mountains National Park for the past two weeks. The mountains are near the city of Gondar, home to most of Ethiopia’s remaining Jewish community....

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Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has come under fire after she said in an interview on Sunday that Congress should consider cutting military and economic aid to Israel. “I think it’s something that can be discussed,” Ocasio-Cortez asserted on Yahoo’s Skullduggery podcast, adding that a shift in policy should “certainly”...

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British Armed Forces Chief of the Defense Staff General Sir Nick Carter arrived in Israel on Sunday to promote cooperation between the two countries. General Carter was greeted by an honor guard headed by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi at the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv....

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Cardiovascular disease is the world’s leading cause of death. Heart transplants are often the only option available for patients in the worst cases. But the number of heart donors is limited and too many patients die while waiting. What if hospitals could simply print out a new heart? That’s the...

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