By Etgar Lefkovits An army officer who has received both the President’s Award of Excellence and that of the minister of defense, is the first Muslim Arab woman know to become a major in the Israeli Army. Ella Waweya, 33, internationally known as “Captain Ella” (even after her promotion), is the Israeli military’s deputy
Category: Middle East
By David Isaac 180 non-profit and civil rights organizations called on the social media giant to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism. The call was made in a November 16 open letter to Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Twitter management. “Twitter’s guidelines should afford protection to Jewish Twitter users from antisemitic
By Yaakov Lappin The Israeli and Hellenic navies enjoy an excellent level of cooperation and appreciate one another’s capabilities, an Israeli naval commander said on Monday. The statement came days after ships from the two forces completed a wide-ranging joint training exercise in Greek waters. The 10-day exercise, a part of the Greek-led international drill,
Isreali Hydrocarbon Exploration And Production Company Announces New Gas Discovery Off Israeli Coast
By JNS Reporter Energean plc announced on Monday the discovery of a commercially viable deposit of natural gas, containing an estimated 13 billion cubic meters (bcm), at its Zeus-01 drilling site located off Israel’s coast, the company said in a statement. Energean’s floating production unit seen offshore Israel. The company is now progressing its field
By Abigail Klein Leichman One of the greatest threats to the environment and climate is plastic waste. Melodea, an Israeli company, confronts that issue by producing a cellulose nanocrystal coating sourced from wood pulp, a side stream of the paper-making industry. The plastic-free, plant-based package coating will be available from Melodea within six months —
By Diana Bletter One of the best ways to learn to speak a foreign language is to sing it. That’s the philosophy behind Singit, a software program that teaches English using the power of music. The company is the brainchild of Michael Peled, who struggled with dyslexia from childhood. When he told his father he couldn’t
By When a pregnant woman is worried about possible genetic defects in the child she is carrying, amniocentesis is the gold standard test. But amniocentesis is both invasive – a needle is inserted into the womb to extract amniotic fluid – and dangerous, resulting in miscarriage in as many as one out of every 200
By Abigail Klein Leichman It was a miracle that nobody was hurt when a large sinkhole suddenly opened on the busy Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv. Nor was anyone hurt when three cars fell into a cavernous sinkhole that suddenly appeared in a parking lot at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center last year. But just
By It’s a professional writer’s worst fear – artificial intelligence technology that can compose an article or a turn of phrase just as skillfully as a human can. Israeli startup AI21 has that potential. So, with no small amount of trepidation, I had to ask Ori Goshen, the company’s CEO, if AI21’s flagship product, Wordtune,
By Abigail Klein Leichman It was a miracle that nobody was hurt when a large sinkhole suddenly opened on the busy Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv. Nor was anyone hurt when three cars fell into a cavernous sinkhole that suddenly appeared in a parking lot at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center last year. But just
