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| 02.05.2024 | Scoop: Senators meet with ICC over concerns about possible Israel arrest warrants | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
A bipartisan group of senators held a virtual meeting on Wednesday with senior officials at the International Criminal Court to express their concern about possible arrest warrants being issued for Is... |
| 26.01.2024 | Israel in Paralysis | Over three months into the Israel-Gaza war, Israel has neither a clear path to victory nor a feasible exit strategy. It appears far from accomplishing either of its two main war objectives: dismantling Hamas’s military and governing capacit... |
| 16.12.2023 | What is Israel trying to achieve in its brutal Gaza war? | Redeem now
Images of the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza capture similar scenes: Crowds of Palestinians gathering outdoors to stare at the craters where their roads had been, at the heaps of rubble that minutes or hours before had b... |
| 12.12.2023 | Israel's Gen Z is dancing to a war song that celebrates bombing Gaza and names Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid as enemies | Military & Defense Israel's Gen Z is dancing to a war song that celebrates bombing Gaza and names Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid as enemies
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| 02.12.2023 | Israel lets AI help it figure out where to bomb in war-torn Gaza, and the number of targets has skyrocketed | Israeli forces bombing what it says are Hamas targets in November. Screengrab via Israeli Air Force
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Israel has been using AI to help it figure out which targets to strike in Gaza.
The IDF relies on a "target factory" po... |
| 21.10.2023 | Israel-Hamas War Takes A Huge Toll On Children’s Mental Health | First responders bring two injured Palestinian children to the Al-Aqsa hospital in Beit al-Balga, ... [+] Central Gaza, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. More than 4,000 of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli military responded... |
| 19.09.2023 | Ancient 'Ice Mouse' Provides Chilling Insights Into Prehistoric Alaska | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 19 September 2023, 03:09 pm
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A team of paleontologists digs along the banks of the Colville River in northern Alaska.
Researchers discovered a tiny creature, about the ... |
| 14.08.2023 | A group of 6 teenagers was reportedly detained after causing chaos on a flight, including injuring a passenger by throwing a full soda can at them | Travel A group of 6 teenagers was reportedly detained after causing chaos on a flight, including injuring a passenger by throwing a full soda can at them
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| 07.08.2023 | Kahun integrates its AI clinical-intake tool with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | Jessel Renolayan, Tech Times 07 August 2023, 10:08 pm
Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians, launches a pilot integration with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Emergency Department (Ichilov Hospital), Israel's larg... |
| 27.06.2023 | Israeli complicity in Sri Lanka war crimes must be investigated | It has been more than 14 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end. Although a semblance of peace has returned to the parts of the country devastated by the 29-year conflict, its victims are yet to see justice delivered.
Over th... |
| 08.06.2023 | The 10 least affordable places to live if you're an expat in 2023 | Singapore breaks into top 5 for the first time. Roslan Rahman/Getty Images
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Skyrocketing rent prices and soaring inflation have driven up the cost of living across the world.
A new survey ranked 219 cities in 120 countries by how ... |
| 24.04.2023 | United plane turns back 3 hours into flight after a 'disruptive' passenger sat in a crew seat and got in a shouting match with a flight attendant, report says | A United Airlines 787-10 Dreamliner takes off. JanValls/Urbanandsport /NurPhoto via Getty Images
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A flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Tel Aviv, Israel, turned back three hours after it took off.
United Airlines told Insider that ... |
| 20.04.2023 | FBI launches hate crime investigation after a swastika was carved into the back of a Jewish teen with autism, report says | Law FBI launches hate crime investigation after a swastika was carved into the back of a Jewish teen with autism, report says
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| 14.02.2023 | The New Israeli Government’s ‘Constitutional Law Reforms’: Why now? What do they mean? And what will happen next? | Following the Nov. 1, 2022, Israeli elections, the right-wing bloc of parties headed by the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu—which won, jointly, 64 out of 120 seats in the Knesset—was able to form a government, and on Dec. 29, 2022, Israel’s 37... |
| 07.02.2023 | Умер разработчик технологии сжатия данных для ZIP, PDF и MP3 Авраам Лемпель Статьи редакции | Ему было 86 лет.
Авраам Лемпель. Источник: «Технион»
О смерти учёного в области математики и информатики Авраама Лемпеля сообщило ТАСС со ссылкой на газету Yedioth Ahronoth. Он скончался 5 февраля 2023 года — в Израиле.
Родился Лемпель в 19... |
| 09.01.2023 | International Law of the Sea Meets Israeli Constitutional Law: The New Israeli-Lebanese Maritime Border Agreement | On Dec. 13, 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court published a 51-page judgment in Kohelet Forum v. Prime Minister, providing reasons for its Oct. 23, 2022, decision to greenlight the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Delimitation Agreement. (The agreement ... |
| 19.09.2022 | Investigating the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh | On May 11, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced the death of Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, who reported on the Israel-Palestine conflict for Al Jazeera, was shot in May while reporting on an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) operation in th... |
| 01.07.2022 | Episode V: Israel’s caretaker | On July 13, U.S. President Joe Biden is scheduled to land at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. In a change of plans, he will find not Naftali Bennett receiving him on the tarmac, but a new Israeli prime minister, Yair Lapid. The centrist La... |
| 26.05.2022 | What Tesla's Sentry Mode Can Teach Us About The Privacy Versus Security Debate | Tech venture builder. Co-founder & CEO at RAVIN.ai. |
| 26.10.2021 | No status, no future: The life of a child asylum seeker in Israel | Tel Aviv, Israel – When Yonas Kidane* was born in a hospital just south of Tel Aviv eight years ago, his parents were given a light-blue piece of paper. On it was his name, the name of his mother, and his date and place of birth. But it was... |
| 10.08.2021 | What is Pegasus? How The Spyware Invades Phones And What It Does When It Gets In | Smartphone. Photo by Keira Burton from Pexels |
| 06.07.2021 | Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is less effective at preventing Delta infections than other variants, but still protects against severe illness, preliminary Israeli study says | A COVID-19 vaccination with the Israeli flag in the background. Sebastian Scheiner/AP
Early data suggests the Pfizer vaccine is less protective against infection from the Delta variant.
But it remains highly protective against hospitalizati... |
| 26.06.2021 | Israel’s new camouflage technology can make soldiers virtually ‘invisible’ | The Kit 300 sheet is made of thermal visual concealment (TVC) material that combines microfibers, metals, and polymers. The Media Line/YouTube
A new camouflage technology can make soldiers virtually “invisible,” according to reports.
The Ki... |
| 13.06.2021 | Naftali Bennett: The tech millionaire son of Berkeley ‘left-wingers’ who is poised to take over from Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu | Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked during a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 29, 2018. JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images
Pending a Knesset vote, Naftali Bennett will become Israel’s next prime minister.
He was raised by two UC Berkeley ... |
| 21.04.2021 | Facebook Catches Palestinian Hackers Targeting Users with Malware | Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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Two separate groups of hackers from Palestine have been targeting Facebook users with Android, iOS, and W... |
| 13.04.2021 | The Return to Balfour: Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Coronavirus Regulations Curbing the Right to Protest | On April 4, the Israeli High Court of Justice issued its judgment in National Responsibility v. Gov’t of Israel, the latest case in a series of legal challenges to controversial measures adopted by the Israeli government in response to the ... |
| 15.12.2020 | How Israeli VCs Are Doubling Down on DeFi Startups | The three co-founders of Collider Ventures all agree Israel’s vibrant crypto industry waned, yet didn’t fizzle, throughout 2020.
“For us, [COVID-19] had a positive impact that pushed us into a corner, and we decided to start Collider Labs i... |
| 26.11.2020 | Beyond soccer, here are some of the political causes, leaders, and movements Diego Maradona supported in his life | Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, shows Cuban President Fidel Castro a tattoo of him on his leg. Reuters
Diego Maradona died at the age of 60 on Wednesday due to cardiac arrest.
Athletes, leaders and fans all over the world expressed ... |
| 18.05.2020 | Israeli company invents masks diners can wear while eating | More On: Coronavirus
Gift of flight: Delta to restore flight privileges to passengers barred over mask violations DOJ to appeal ruling striking down mask mandate after CDC gives OK White House says masking optional, but recommended as Psaki... |
| 16.12.2019 | What Can We Learn from the Escalating Israeli Raids in Syria? | Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
On Wednesday, December 4, an Iranian ammunition depot in Al-Bukamal, Syria was hit by an airstrike. This attack came after Israel reportedly conducted four air strikes in ... |
| 23.11.2019 | Israel is determined to topple Netanyahu — but the country's entire political system might be headed down with him | Benjamin Netanyahu (Getty)
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on bribery, fraud, and breach of trust charges as part of three separate corruption cases.
The charges come amid political chaos in Israel, after... |
| 05.11.2019 | The WhatsApp-NSO Group Lawsuit and the Limits of Lawful Hacking | On Oct. 29, WhatsApp sued the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group for installing surveillance malware on the phones of more than a thousand WhatsApp users, including journalists and human rights activists. (The WhatsApp vulnerability th... |
| 31.10.2019 | How NSO Group Helps Countries Hack Targets | A blockbuster lawsuit involving the most popular chat app in the world and the most infamous spyware company in the world has given us concrete details about how the secretive Israeli spy firm NSO Group helps countries hack journalists, act... |
| 17.06.2019 | Israel unveils a new settlement called 'Trump Heights', which isn't actually new and doesn't even really exist | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have given his final performance as the country's leader. (Getty)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday unveiled a new settlement named "Trump Heights" in the disputed Go... |
| 25.03.2019 | Israeli Hacking Company NSO Group Is Trying to Clean Up Its Image | In the summer of 2016, a Dubai-based human rights activist was targeted with a sophisticated iPhone hacking tool. That piece of malware had been developed by NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells surveillance and hacking tools to governm... |
| 22.03.2019 | Recognizing Israel’s Claims to the Golan Heights: Trump’s Decision in Perspective | On Thursday, March 21, President Trump introduced yet another sea change to U.S. policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict—this time by tweet. “After 52 years,” Trump wrote, “it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s [s]ov... |
| 23.01.2019 | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Not a Bankruptcy Sale | Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprise call for early elections in April, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman indicated that the release of the Trump administration’s much ballyhooed “deal of the century” would ... |
| 17.07.2018 | No Grand Bargain for Syria at Trump-Putin Summit | Trump and Putin Say They Will Cooperate on Syria, But No Grand Bargain
The Trump administration has signaled in recent weeks that it would like to reach a grand bargain with Russian President Vladimir Putin that splits the Iranian-Russian a... |
| 13.05.2018 | Why Countries Should Welcome, Not Fear, Foreign Funding of NGOs | Editor’s Note: When foreigners give money to political organizations, both the donor and the recipient often become suspect. Governments around the world that fear criticism, oppose human rights, or otherwise reject the agendas of these gro... |
| 07.05.2018 | An Israeli official just threatened to assassinate Bashar Assad | An Israeli cabinet minister threatened Monday to destroy the Syrian regime and even assassinate leader Bashar Assad should Iran launch strikes against the Jewish state from within Syria.
“If Assad allows Iran to turn Syria into a military v... |
| 19.03.2018 | Why Israel Is Stuck with Hamas | Hamas—the anti-Israel Palestinian faction that rules the Gaza known for its terrorist attacks on Israel—is on the ropes. Although the violent back-and-forth with Israel goes on, Hamas spends much of its energy trying to undermine its Palest... |
| 14.03.2018 | Good lord, Android phone makers, please just stop | Seriously, LG, this is just embarrassing. We know small China-based smartphone makers are busy churning out iPhone X copycats as quickly as they can (or should we say Essential PH-1 copycats, as some crazy Android fanboys would have you bel... |
| 06.03.2018 | Two Small Steps on the Long Road to Suppressing Unlawful Security Interrogations in Israel | The application of special interrogation techniques by the Israel Security Agency (ISA) has generated considerable controversy in Israel since the mid 1980s. In 1987, following major public scandals relating to the use of torture in securit... |
| 14.02.2018 | Iran and Israel Face off in Syria, as If It Wasn’t Complicated Enough | Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
Israel’s air attack on a manned Iranian command and control unit in Syria last weekend—and the Syrian shoot-down of an Israeli plane involved in the operation—marked a maj... |
| 08.08.2017 | Assad Regime Strains Russian Ceasefires, Iran Responds to Trump’s Plans for Nuclear Deal, Israeli Officials Snared in Corruption Scandals | Russian-backed Ceasefires Falter in Syria
Russia’s efforts to wind down the conflict in Western Syria were set back by renewed clashes over the past week. In recent months, Russia has sought to expand its patchwork of local ceasefires into ... |
| 25.07.2017 | New Tensions on Temple Mount, CIA Ends Aid to Syrian Rebels, Gulf Crisis Affecting Regional Foreign Policy, and Trump Looking for Excuse to Leave Iran Deal | Attack on Israeli Police on Temple Mount Launches Protests and Clashes
Israel and the Palestinians are lurching through another round of violence. Though it’s always controversial to point to a particular incident instigating a crisis in Is... |
| 06.06.2017 | Qatar Cut Off by Diplomatic Rift, Syrian Forces Begin Attack on Raqqa, Germany Withdraws Troops from Turkish Airbase | Saudi Arabia and Others Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar
The renewed spat between Saudi Arabia and Qatar escalated significantly on Monday when Saudi Arabia moved to break off diplomatic relations with Qatar. The United Arab Emirates, Bahra... |
| 16.05.2017 | Bombshell: Initial Thoughts on the Washington Post’s Game-Changing Story | The Washington Post this afternoon published a stunning story reporting that President Trump disclosed highly-classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during their visit to the Oval Offi... |
| 09.02.2017 | Amona and the Settlement Regularization Bill: The Politicization of Suffering and the Threat to the High Court | Last week, after years of stays and delays, the Israeli government finally enforced a ruling of the country’s High Court and began dismantling the settlement of Amona. In scenes of resistance designed to haunt policymakers who favor further... |
| 14.01.2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Allegations regarding Russia’s dossier on the President-elect continues to steal the spotlight. Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden confirmed that members of the Intelligence Community briefed both himself and President Obama on the content... |
| 22.11.2016 | How Israel Built One Of The World’s Most Powerful Cyber Armies | In the last few years, along with the United States, UK, China and Russia, Israel has become a superpower in the world of government hacking and cyber espionage.
Israeli cyberspies are believed to have worked with NSA hackers to develop Stu... |
| 21.10.2016 | Nowhere to Go in Amona | Since 1997, Israel’s Supreme Court has tasked the government with evacuating all or parts of the illegal West Bank outpost called Amona. In 2006, the site became a symbol of the Israeli settler movement’s power after 4,000 protesters clashe... |
| 08.08.2016 | As brain drain looms, new rules create roadblocks for ultra-orthodox to enter Israel’s tech sector | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| 06.05.2016 | Israel Imperiled: An Overview of Threats to the Jewish State | Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from testimony offered before the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.
Changes in its regional environment are shifting th... |
| 01.04.2016 | Заказ ФБР на взлом iPhone выполнила израильская компания Cellebrite | Отдел новостей 1 апреля 2016, 10:46 Заказ ФБР на взлом iPhone выполнила израильская компания Cellebrite
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| 25.02.2016 | The Race Is on for Israel to Finalize Its Tunnel Fighting Technology | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told residents of Gaza border communities that the army is "probably on the verge of finding a solution" to end the threat of tunnel attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian militant gro... |
| 20.01.2016 | Israel’s Cannabis Industry Blazes Ahead | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| 15.12.2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In a rare appearance at the Pentagon today, President Barack Obama declared that U.S. coalition forces are making progress in the fight against the Islamic State. Amid rising skepticism surrounding the Administration’s plan to fight the gro... |
| 21.11.2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali this morning, leaving at least 20 dead after a prolonged hostage situation. The attackers entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako between 7:00 and 7:30 am local time, using a carjacked diplomatic SUV t... |
| 03.11.2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | As the United States continues to modify its strategy in Syria, the New York Times writes that the new U.S. effort to arm and equip local militias against the Islamic State is mired in challenges, chief among these is that “many of the forc... |
| 12.10.2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Two consecutive bomb blasts rocked a peace rally in Ankara on Saturday, leaving at least 95 killed and 246 injured in the largest terrorist attack in the history of modern Turkey. The protesters, mostly leftist and Kurdish activists, had ga... |
| 08.10.2015 | Video Shows Disguised Israeli Soldiers Turning Guns on Protesters | Dramatic footage showing members of an elite Israeli army unit disguised as Palestinian stone throwers turning and opening fire on protesters emerged on Wednesday night, as tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank continue to mount.
In the v... |
| 05.10.2015 | The Mysterious Death of an Art Thief & Deep Dream Make-Up: Last Week in Art | A lot went down this week in the weird and wild world of Art. Some things were more scandalous than others, some were just plain wacky—but all of them are worth knowing about. Without any further adieu: + An Italian art thief was found dead... |
| 30.07.2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | It’s official. Afghan Taliban sources have confirmed to Al Jazeera that its leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, is dead. The U.S. government says it considers the report of Omar’s death to be credible. The Afghan intelligence service asserted yes... |
| 07.07.2015 | The Middle East Ticker | UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt Gaza report: The report of the HRC’s “Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict,” which Ben and Yishai discussed here, is highly focused on and critical of Israel’s conduct during las... |
| 11.06.2015 | The Middle East Ticker | International Criminal Court preparing to send an investigative team to Israel: The Israeli daily Haaretz reports that the ICC’s Prosecutor’s office is preparing to send a team to Israel as parts of its preliminary inquiry into possible war... |
| 01.05.2015 | The Middle East Ticker | UN inquiry finds Israeli munitions killed civilians sheltering in UNRWA schools, also finds Hamas used (separate) UNRWA schools to store missiles and fire at Israelis. A special investigative panel designated by UN Secretary General Ban Ki ... |
| 06.04.2015 | The Middle East Ticker | Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey. The move comes after the sites failed to comply with an order issued last week by the Istanbul First Criminal Courts of Peace to take down footage of an Istanbul prosecutor being held at gunp... |
| 30.03.2015 | 'Bibi Always Finds a Way': Residents of Israel's Har Homa Settlement Say Building Freeze Won't Last | Real estate agent Eliko Zeevi holds out a shiny pamphlet showcasing a deluxe new development of around 800 new "condos." Around one-third of the price of their equivalent in central Jerusalem and only a 10-minute bus ride away fro... |
| 25.03.2015 | The Middle East Ticker | With support of 67 parliamentarians, Netanyahu set to begin forming a government: Benjamin Netanyahu’s big election victory just got more official, with the leadership of parties representing a majority of the Knesset formally recommending ... |
| 25.03.2015 | Facebook Leak Suggests Company Testing 'Phone' Feature | Christian de Looper, Tech Times 25 March 2015, 07:03 am
Facebook is reportedly preparing another app for users to download. The app isn't the next groundbreaking way of communicating, however. It's called Phone.
While not groundbreaking tec... |
| 19.02.2015 | The Middle East Ticker | Editor's note: Below, we offer our latest roundup of Lawfare-relevant items from the Middle East and North Africa. As we noted last week, this feature will appear occasionally and is modeled on Paul Rosenzweig's “Bits and Bytes” series rega... |
| 13.02.2015 | Apple to Open New Offices in a Seaside City in Israel Tuesday
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| 28.01.2015 | Hanging with Sylvester Stallone's Superfans at His Expensive Meet and Greet in Britain | Photos by Natasha Bright
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Sylvester Stallone, interviewed by Mike Read. On paper, it's an odd setup. In reality, it was one of the weirdest events I've ever been to: Rocky, sitting in Sheffield Ci... |
| 25.01.2015 | Israel Grows From Startup Nation To Exit Nation | Dennis Mitzner Contributor
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| 11.12.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Today, the New York Times brings us news that when the CIA first received detention and interrogation authorities in 2001, the Agency initially planned to create a system of worldwide jails that would abide by the standards of the U.S. Bure... |
| 07.11.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Yesterday, President Obama announced that he plans to seek new Congressional authorization for the ongoing military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The New York Times quotes President Obama saying, “the world needs to ... |
| 04.11.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | All across the United States, people are going to the polls today to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
19.3 million early votes have already been logged in the most expensive midterm election ever. At stake are all 435 seats in the Hou... |
| 27.10.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | While the US midterm elections are still a week away, democratic contests elsewhere in the world are ongoing or have just concluded. In Brazil, the BBC reports that incumbent president Dilma Rousseff narrowly won re-election today in what w... |
| 14.10.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | What a mess. As we write, ISIS is shelling Kurdish defenders inside the town of Kobani; a U.S.-led coalition is bombing ISIS in the areas around Kobani; and the Turkish military (which is nominally a part of the coalition, but which has so ... |
| 13.10.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The ISIS siege on Kobani appears to have failed--for now. While the flashpoint city continues to struggle with ISIS counterattacks, it appears that the Kurdish peshmerga, with the help of coalition airstrikes, has driven the militant group ... |
| 10.10.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Tragic news out of Yemen: a suicide bomber reportedly blew himself up in a crowd of protesters, killing approximately 70 people. The New York Times reports that the explosion heightens fears that “Sunni extremists were mobilizing new attack... |
| 26.09.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Earlier this afternoon, the U.K. Parliament authorized British airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS by a vote of 524-43. Earlier reports noted that British operations could begin as early as this weekend.
The Brits are not the only country signi... |
| 23.09.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The United States and its allies began airstrikes in Syria with a massive assault across vast swaths of the country’s airspace last night. Foreign Policy carries the story. President Barack Obama authorized the the strikes, which, according... |
| 18.09.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | It’s decision day in Scotland. Over 4 million eligible voters have the chance today to vote on breaking the 307-year union with the United Kingdom and going it alone as an independent country. The latest polls seem to have given the “no” ca... |
| 16.09.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | “The peace and security we enjoy in Europe and North America are under threat like never before,” writes Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen in a rousing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. Rasmussen calls ISIS and Russia the two ... |
| 28.08.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Over the last 24 hours, the situation in eastern Ukraine has rapidly deteriorated. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko canceled a visit to Turkey after declaring that Russian soldiers are officially operating within Ukraine. Official Russi... |
| 19.05.2014 | Anti-Palestinian Attacks Surge in Israel Ahead of Pope’s Visit | Sectarian tensions in Israel continue to soar ahead of Pope Francis’ first visit to the Holy Land this coming weekend.
Over the past month and a half, not a week has gone by without the defacement or arson of a church, a mosque, or property... |
| 15.01.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its report reviewing the attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. The report broadly faults the State Department and various intelligence agencies for failures of communication, and for... |
| 12.07.2013 | A New Place For Better Place, As Bankrupt $800M+ Backed Electric Car Startup Sold For $12M | Looks like we have a final chapter for Better Place, the Israel-based electric car tech startup that raised $786 million plus $50 million in debt, only to then file for bankruptcy in May: it has now been acquired by a group called Sunrise, ... |
| 27.05.2013 | Hey Mark Zuckerberg, the Israeli Government Would Like to See You About Some Parody Accounts | (Photo: Flickr.com/gpaumier)
Israel just discovered parody Facebook accounts and that’s bad news for Mark Zuckerberg. Moshe Gafni, a parliament member for an ulta-Orthodox sect, is so annoyed that a fake account containing his name was bein... |
| 19.03.2012 | Covidien confirms superDimension buyout | Covidien (NYSE:COV) confirmed that it’s agreed to acquire medical device maker superDimension, saying it will pay about $300 million plus possible earnouts in a deal expected to close during the 2nd quarter.
The Mansfield, Mass.-based medic... |
| 14.03.2012 | Report: Covidien to acquire superDimension for $350M | Wall Street Beat | Covidien (NYSE:COV) is set to close a $350 million buyout of Israeli lung diagnosis firm superDimension by the end of the week, according to Israeli business journal Calcalist.
Founded in Tel Aviv by Pinchas Gilboa, Minneapolis-based superD... |
| 17.01.2012 | Israeli and Palestinian hackers trade DDoS attacks in rising cyber-gang war | Photograph by Paolo Cuttitta reader comments 20 with 17 posters participating
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Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli hackers are waging a cyber street-fight in a tit-for-tat excha... |
| 17.01.2012 | Israeli hackers attack Saudi & UAE stock exchange websites | The Middle East has always been a troubled place, and now people are taking to the web to launch their attacks. On Tuesday, a group of Israeli hackers took down the Saudi Arabia stock exchange and the United Arab Emirates stock exchange web... |
| 20.12.2011 | Half a billion dollars: why Apple’s acquisition of Anobit matters | reader comments 155 with 76 posters participating
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| 30.11.2011 | Rivals threaten to take wind from Watson’s generic Lipitor sales | Lipitor was launched in 1997 and at its peak had sales of $13 billion.
As Barrons puts it, citing Canaccord Genuity analyst Randall Stanicky, with no less than three companies entering or hoping to enter the generic Lipitor market, there’s ... |
| 27.05.2010 | University Sues GM For Using Einstein In An Ad Without Paying Up | Steve R. was the first of a bunch of you to send in the news that Hebrew University is suing GM for using Albert Einstein’s likeness in an ad. A separate article notes that Einstein “is among the world’s top-earning dead people” because so ... |
| 14.12.2009 | Israeli ISPs Caught Traffic Shaping Without Admitting It | For many years, in the US, there were claims that Comcast was doing traffic shaping on its network, slowing down or even blocking certain types of traffic. Despite increasingly sophisticated evidence, Comcast always denied it, until the Ass... |
| 09.09.2009 | Israeli Claims Patent Over Adding .com To The End Of The Address Bar | TechCrunch points us to a story about an Israeli company by the name of Netex who is claiming a patent over “www.addressing.” What’s that? Well, apparently it’s the process of simply adding a “.com” to the end of a word you put in a browser... |
