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UAE, Israeli soccer clubs to play first friendlies since normalization
United Arab Emirates soccer club Al-Ain will play Israel’s Maccabi Haifa in two friendly matches, the Emirati club announced on Wednesday.
The announcement was made during the virtual signing of a deal between the two...
Former Shin Bet chief calls for Israel to ‘initiate military operations against Iran’
In light of Iran’s fast-moving efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, Likud Knesset member and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter, a former director of the Shin Bet, has called “to...
Netanyahu postpones trip to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his scheduled visit next week to Abu Dhabi and Bahrain, citing Israel’s coronavirus lockdown and the shuttering of Ben-Gurion International Airport, his office announced on Thursday.
“Despite the...
2021 opens with record investments for Israeli startups
Following a record-breaking year that saw some $10 billion of investment flowing to Israeli companies, the reported amount of funds raised in January exceeded $1.2 billion, the highest-ever amount for a single month.
The highest reported amount...
McCarthy decides not to remove Taylor Greene from House committee assignments
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) issued a statement on Feb. 3 stating that although he condemns Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) past social-media posts, he doesn’t support removing her from her committee assignments.
Greene’s comments have...
UAE embraces trade with Israeli-owned businesses in Judea and Samaria
The Psagot Winery sits on the peaks of the Binyamin region mountains in Judea and Samaria, north of Jerusalem and just east of Ramallah. Though Psagot and many Israeli-owned businesses operating over the 1967...
February 4, 2004: Facebook shows its face
Facebook was launched from a Harvard dormitory room by Mark Zuckerberg, then 19 years old, and three classmates on this date in 2004. By summer they had an investor, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of...
Technion to award Pfizer CEO honorary doctorate for coronavirus vaccine
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will award an honorary doctorate to Pfizer CEO and chairman Dr. Albert Bourla for his “extraordinary achievement” in leading the record-time development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, Technion president...
West Bank facts on the ground cannot be ignored
Palestinian and American officials had on Monday their first formal public contact since 2017. The Palestinian Authority refused to speak to the Trump administration for years because of anger over the moving of the...
It’s not enough to just remember the Holocaust
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to serve two purposes: to memorialize the victims of the Nazi genocide and help prevent future genocides. Last week, on Jan. 27, the day designated by the U.N....