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July 24, 2014
9:16 pm

Reality is SO behind the times

The crowds at Jaffa's 3D Factory on opening night (Photo credit: Courtesy)

From our blogs Many fields can find inspiration in the musings of others. I wonder sometimes what the effect would be of taking the same people who imagined this new TV show and giving them free access to “play” in a lab with no shortage of cutting-edge tools and technologies and engineers

By Nahum Kovalski

July 24, 2014
8:27 pm

Astronaut’s ‘Gaza-Israel’ conflict photo is Tel Aviv lights

Professor Michael Harper's corrected image (Photo credit: Courtesy)

A photo taken from space that purports to show explosions in Gaza and rockets flying over Israel went viral Thursday, posted on dozens of Facebook pages and blogs, including the official blog of NASA, the US space agency. Just one problem -- it's...

By David Shamah

July 24, 2014
6:14 pm

US head of Israeli tourism heads home

Tourists in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City in May 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz / Flash 90)

From the web TravelPulse: Haim Gutin, head of the Israeli Tourism Board in the US, is leaving for home after 15 years 'selling' Israel in the US. In an interview, he tells all about how American tourism to Israel has grown over the years, and his role in that

July 24, 2014
5:59 pm

Israeli economy resilient amid conflict, deputy governor of central bank says

Crowds at the Mamilla shopping mall in Jerusalem (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

From the web Globe and Mail: Operation Protective Edge isn't having much of an impact on the Israeli economy, according to Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg, the deputy governor of the Bank of Israel. The damage to the economy, she said, is what you might get with a 'bad winter storm'

July 24, 2014
5:00 pm

Israeli planes vulnerable to missiles that downed MH17

Wreckage of a Malaysian airliner carrying 295 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur after it crashed, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine, July 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/DOMINIQUE FAGET)

Planes landing at and taking off from Ben Gurion Airport have nothing to worry about from Hamas rockets, according to one of the world's foremost experts on missile defense, but the antiaircraft missiles thought to have brought down the Malaysian airliner...

By David Shamah

July 24, 2014
4:10 pm

Judaism can protect against suicide: Israeli study

A religious Jewish father kisses his son on the forehead.

Israeli researchers have found that religious observance helps protect Jews against suicide. In a cross-sectional study published in the journal European Psychiatry in June, religious Jewish teenagers exhibited less than half as much suicide-risk behavior, including attempted suicide, as their...

By Andrew Tobin

July 24, 2014
8:50 am

FAA cancels ban on US flights to Tel Aviv airport

A departure flight board displays various canceled and delayed flights in Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its ban late Wednesday on US flights in and out of Israel, which the agency had imposed out of concern for the risk of planes being hit by Hamas rockets. "Before making this decision, the...

By AP and Times of Israel staff

July 23, 2014
9:01 pm

IDF ‘didn’t follow up’ on MRI-style, below-surface technology to find tunnels

Soldiers from the Givati brigade seen at the entrance to a Hamas 'attack tunnel' on Wednesday, July 23. The brigade's mission is to target Hamas' tunnels that cross under the Israel-Gaza border and enable Hamas terrorists to infiltrate into Israel and carry out attacks. (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)

Israel has sent troops into Gaza City to blow up terrorist tunnels, at heavy cost. What puzzles one expert is why the IDF hasn't instead used technology to find the tunnels, just as it has exploited high-tech capabilities for the...

By David Shamah

July 23, 2014
6:42 pm

The mobile payments paradigm

A man with a cellphone (illustrative photo: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

From our blogs Does a purchase carried out remotely but not in the immediate proximity of the shopping store also constitute a mobile payment? Are traditional online payments charged to credit cards or bank accounts but performed on smartphones also considered a form of mobile payment?

By Josh Daniel

July 23, 2014
6:32 pm

SodaStream bears see 40% rout extending on sales

Scarlett Johansen advertising SodaStream (screen capture: Youtube)

From the web Businessweek: Shares of the NASDAQ-traded SodaStream are down 40% this year, hitting their lowest level in six months. According to anaylsts, the stock still isn't cheap enough -- and is likely to go even lower

July 23, 2014
5:51 pm

Israel, Hamas battle over public opinion online

This graphic posted on the Israeli Defense Forces website, dated July 20, 2014, shows an artist's attempt to spread a message that Hamas fighters are hiding behind their civilian population (photo credit: AP/IDF website)

AP — Beyond the boom of Israeli airstrikes and the stream of rockets fired from Gaza, Israel and Hamas are also battling to control the message emanating from this latest Israeli-Palestinian conflagration. Using videos, Twitter, text messages, leaflets and phone...

By Tia Goldenberg

July 23, 2014
4:55 pm

FAA cancellations are almost, but not quite, a knockout blow

People stand in the Delta Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport July 22, 2014 in New York City after the Federal Aviation Administration halted all flights from the US to Tel Aviv. ( photo credit: Eric Thayer/Getty Images/AFP)

The Israeli travel industry sustained yet another blow when the US Federal Aviation Agency recommended that American carriers avoid Ben Gurion Airport – but for Israeli business, it's not quite a knockout blow, according the head of a public relations...

By David Shamah

July 23, 2014
1:49 pm

Soldiers arrested for leaking death notices on WhatsApp

Thousands of Israelis attend the funeral of IDF soldier Nissim Sean Carmeli, from Texas, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Monday, July 21, 2014. (Photo credit: FLASH90)

Military police on Wednesday arrested three soldiers from the IDF rabbinate on suspicion that they leaked details about IDF fatalities on the mobile phone application WhatsApp. The soldiers, from the army's manpower division, were accused of publicizing the names of...

By Stuart Winer

July 22, 2014
6:48 pm

Snippy Twitter exchange exposes tech tension over Gaza

Screenshot of Graham's Twitter feed (screenshot)

High-tech can claim its first “victim” in the war between Israel and Gaza terrorists. A heated exchange on Twitter between venture capitalist giant Paul Graham and supporters of Israel, could delay plans by Graham's Y Combinator's accelerator to recruit in...

By David Shamah

July 22, 2014
6:41 pm

Share and share alike

Doctors perform a liver transplant, April 7, 2003 (file photo: Flash90)

From our blogs In the United States, there is no perfect equivalent for the Israeli ID number. As such, it is unreliable to assume that the same internal ID number at one hospital applies to the same patient as the same ID number at another hospital

By Nahum Kovalski

Start-Up Israel Blogs

July 24, 2014, 1:02 pm

Reality is SO behind the times

I was watching a new TV show that has just come out. The basis of the show......

Nahum Kovalski

July 24, 2014, 2:59 am

Israel is Being Crucified by Unchallenged Lies

I recently received an email from a reporter asking me to comment on questions of the......

Shmuley Boteach

July 23, 2014, 10:00 am

The Mobile Payments Paradigm

Mobile technology has dramatically impacted the way people go about their daily lives. The widespread use of......

Josh Daniel

July 23, 2014, 8:35 am

Born Free (Data)

It seems that every other day, a new medical device and/or application hits the market. The focus of......

Nahum Kovalski

July 22, 2014, 6:22 pm

The Irony Of Anti-Semitism

It’s been a strange few weeks for me, from the kidnapping of our boys to the......

Henry Stimler

July 22, 2014, 8:08 am

Share and Share Alike

Have you ever undergone a CT at one hospital but been told that it must be repeated......

Nahum Kovalski

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