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IAI’s GroundPoint advanced target location system ready for export

IAI’s GroundPoint advanced target location system ready for export

IDF units already using version at the borders.   Israel Aerospace Industries is offering foreign buyers an advanced surface target location system, a version of… Read More ›

US-Israel defense cooperation goes both ways, Pentagon says

US-Israel defense cooperation goes both ways, Pentagon says

Congressional sources say Israel has made an initial request for its annual US defense aid to increase to as much as $5 billion.   WASHINGTON… Read More ›

Zuckerberg, Khamenai more powerful than Netanyahu according to Forbes

Zuckerberg, Khamenai more powerful than Netanyahu according to Forbes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ranked number 21 on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful people, which was toped by Russian President… Read More ›

Interior Ministry pushes arnona reduction for solar installations

Interior Ministry pushes arnona reduction for solar installations

PUA reduces tariff paid for surplus solar electricity production.   Moving one step closer to curbing property tax (“arnona”) rates on solar panel installations, Interior Minister… Read More ›

Harvard starting Jewish and Israeli law program

Harvard starting Jewish and Israeli law program

As part of new track, university set to bring in visiting scholars, offer courses, and host annual conference   Harvard Law School is set to… Read More ›

Marc Andreessen: ‘We’re in a long-term tech bust,’ not a bubble

Marc Andreessen: ‘We’re in a long-term tech bust,’ not a bubble

  In Silicon Valley, you can’t escape bubble talk. On one side of the ring, Benchmark investor Bill Gurley, who was an investor during the… Read More ›

Bitcoin is going nuts

Bitcoin is going nuts

  Another day, another monster run for bitcoin traders. Bitcoin was trading around $240 in the beginning of October. Now — after a gain of… Read More ›

Tesla goes wild after earnings

Tesla goes wild after earnings

  Tesla’s numbers are out and the stock is ripping higher. Tesla came in a little light on earnings while revenue was right in line… Read More ›

New York – Hundreds Flock To Trump Book Signing In New York

New York – Hundreds Flock To Trump Book Signing In New York

  New York – Donald Trump released his latest book Tuesday, a 193-page campaign manifesto titled “Crippled America” that outlines his philosophy but offers few… Read More ›

Washington – As Scientists Worry About Warming World, US Public Doesn’t

Washington – As Scientists Worry About Warming World, US Public Doesn’t

  Washington – Americans are hot but not too bothered by global warming. Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are… Read More ›

Seattle – Amazon Opens Its First Bookstore As Extension Of Website

Seattle – Amazon Opens Its First Bookstore As Extension Of Website

  Seattle – Online retail giant Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore on Tuesday, two decades after it began selling books over the Internet and… Read More ›

Israel’s new terror

Israel’s new terror

Jerusalem – Idan Sharabi waits for his next customer. On a Monday afternoon in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, his pastry shop should be overflowing with tourists… Read More ›

Antarctica is gaining ice, NASA study says

Antarctica is gaining ice, NASA study says

Antarctica is gaining more ice than it has lost, according to a new study by NASA. A NASA team came to this conclusion after scientists… Read More ›

Russian official opens door to Assad’s exit, says Syrian people should decide

Russian official opens door to Assad’s exit, says Syrian people should decide

  Russian officials have been embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s most emphatic international backers. But that doesn’t mean they’re insisting he remain in power. Russian… Read More ›

Top US Orthodox rabbis ban women in rabbinic positions

Top US Orthodox rabbis ban women in rabbinic positions

Rabbinical Council of America officially adopts policy prohibiting Orthodox institutions from ordaining or hiring female clergy   The Rabbinical Council of America formally adopted a… Read More ›

Children of intermarriage’s attachment to Judaism most fluid in college

Children of intermarriage’s attachment to Judaism most fluid in college

New in-depth study of Millennials finds education key to continuity: Hillel, Chabad and Birthright all shape Jewish identity of student born to interfaith home  … Read More ›

American Jews growing more religious, poll indicates

American Jews growing more religious, poll indicates

While ‘absolute’ certainty in God on decline among Americans, 36% of Jews polled say religion ‘very important’ to them   American Jews appear to be… Read More ›

Israeli arrested after death threat to Arab MK

Israeli arrested after death threat to Arab MK

24-year-old from Rosh HaAyin arrested after writing to Arab MK Ahmad Tibi on Facebook: “I’m the one who will kill you. Your time is nearly… Read More ›

Sudanese citizen tried to kill Israeli on int’l flight

Sudanese citizen tried to kill Israeli on int’l flight

Israeli worker in Africa attacked by Sudanese citizen during an Ethiopian Airlines flight; crew members, Lebanese passenger save the Israeli and overpower attacker. Ethiopian authorities… Read More ›

US and Russia conduct joint air drills in Syria

US and Russia conduct joint air drills in Syria

One month into Russian strikes in Syria, American and Russian aircraft conduct drills in the country’s skies, exchanging messages in Russian and English; Russia and… Read More ›