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Is Your Child too Glued to a Screen? Here’s How it Could Affect their...

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A new study shows that one in every two households in Israel has at least one child who wears glasses and that 17% of them are under the age of 6 and 70% are under the...
From left: Conference of Presidents CEO William Daroff, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, executive vice chairman Malcolm Hoenlein and chairman Arthur Stark speaking at the 2020 Conference of Presidents Summit in Jerusalem. Source: Conference of Presidents via Twitter.

At Conference of Presidents’ summit in Jerusalem, leaders strive for consensus in era of...

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Disagreements, political and religious, have been literally built into the essence of the Jewish people. And some Jewish entities were built to handle such debate and, in fact, join contentious sides together on behalf...
Election posters hung by the Blue and White Party show their candidate Benny Gantz and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Feb. 18, 2020. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Netanyahu challenges Gantz to a debate before elections

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With Israel’s March 2 general elections just around the corner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday challenged his main rival, Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz, to a live debate. During an interview...
Likud Knesset member Gideon Sa'ar speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Feb. 19, 2020. Photo by Avi Hayoun.

In talk to American Jewish leaders, Sa’ar throws water on idea of Palestinian state

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Likud Knesset Member Gideon Sa’ar said on Wednesday that while the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan is better than any proposal Israel has seen in decades, a Palestinian state just miles from Israeli population...
CEO of Mobileye and co-founder of OrCam Amnon Shashua. Credit: Heinz Troll European Patent Office.

Israeli leader in artificial intelligence earns $1 million Dan David Prize

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Israeli tech leader Amnon Shashua will be awarded the 2020 Dan David Prize for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) as CEO of Mobileye and co-founder of OrCam, a tech company...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud Party event in Lod, Israel, on Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu’s trial to start just weeks after Israeli elections

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will start on March 17, just two weeks after Israel holds its third election in less than a year, the country’s Justice Ministry announced on Tuesday. The Justice...
View of the new Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed train seen over the HaArazim Valley (“Valley of Cedars”) just outside of Jerusalem, Dec. 22, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel plans to extend Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed rail to Western Wall

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Israel’s Transportation Ministry said on Monday that it’s moving ahead with plans to build an extension of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed line that would directly connect Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion International Airport to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The project...
From left: U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Hebron Mayor Hillel Horowitz and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron, part of a tour of Israel, on Feb. 17, 2020. Credit: Yishai Fleisher.

Reps. Jordan, Johnson tour Judea, Samaria as lines discussed for mapping Mideast peace plan

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Two U.S. Republican House members visited historic and strategic sites in Judea and Samaria days after the creation of a special “deal of the century” committee to begin mapping out Israeli application of sovereignty...
Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the media on Jan. 26, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

Bennett says Israel is seeing ‘first signs’ of Iran rethinking its Syria strategy

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Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that Israel has seen signs that Iran is considering decreasing its presence in Syria.  “I can inform you that we have identified first signs of Iran loosening...
Medical staff seen after the arrival of a Chinese woman to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem over suspicions she may be infected with the coronavirus, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Worried about coronavirus, Israel bars foreigners from high-risk countries

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Foreigners who recently traveled to countries in Asia where the coronavirus has spread will be barred from entering Israel, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced on Monday. Deri said that guidelines by Israel’s Ministry of Health...