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Illustrative: A police officer in the southern French city of Toulouse, June 2012. (Bruno Martin/AP)
September 13, 2017, 1:57 pm
7 said wounded, 3 of them cops, in terror attack in Toulouse
Assailant shouted 'Allahu akbar' as he was wrestled to the ground by police, eyewitnesses say
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Beijing hotel room, interviewed by The Times of Israel's diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren (left) and Times of Israel's Chinese editor Yifeng Zhou (Times of Israel staff)
March 23, 2017, 6:01 am
Netanyahu to Times of Israel Chinese: I hope Beijing’s ‘superb’ relations with Israel will affect its UN votes
PM says new bilateral partnership on innovation underlines China's readiness to apply Israeli technology for the benefit of its people; also says he discussed Chinese role in rail route from Asia to Israeli Mediterranean ports
By Raphael Ahren and Yifeng Zhou
Shaul Yakobi, inventor and co-founder at Aquarius Engines, poses for a photo with the single-piston car engine he invented, at Campus Automobile Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on October 19, 2016. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
October 28, 2016, 3:30 pm
Powering a green car revolution, Israeli style
Aquarius says its super-efficient engine could go 1,600 km on a single tank of fuel, and has caught the eye of Peugot
By Joe Dyke
A 'breathing' building for the port city of Ashdod. (Rossella Tercatin/TImes of Israel)
October 6, 2016, 2:36 am
At Venice Biennale, Israeli pavilion merges art and science
In a tribute to the Jewish state's resilience, biology meets architecture to introduce nature's strengths into mankind's inventions
By Rossella Tercatin
Finalists from the Jerusalem Double team, one of six groups competing for three grants. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
September 22, 2016, 10:39 am
Social Innovation Challenge bookends Jerusalem Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration
Six final groups compete for grants of $15,000, $35,000 and $50,000 to help them pursue projects aimed at benefiting people of all backgrounds across the capital
By Yaakov Schwartz
Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, September 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 6, 2016, 2:52 pm
7 countries benefit most from technology innovation
New survey says Israel is one of the top earners from the digital revolution
By AP
Innovation Africa's founder and president Sivan Ya'ari and NBA all star Dikembe Mutombo visit Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa. (Courtesy)
March 6, 2016, 5:11 am
Israeli women — and tech — connect African villages to water, electricity
Innovation Africa, founded by Sivan Ya'ari, has brought solar energy, improved irrigation and cleaner water to as many as 1 million people
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris on November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
December 1, 2015, 1:39 am
Netanyahu hails Israel’s ‘leading role’ in addressing climate change
In address to Paris summit, PM cites local innovations in solar, agricultural and irrigation technology as examples of combating global crisis
By Tamar Pileggi
Entrepreneurs gather at the Google campus in Tel Aviv. (Anna Morein)
October 7, 2015, 7:30 pm
Nonprofit connects Israel tech firms with investors
Billionaire Paul Singer's Start-Up Nation Central seeks to promote local innovation to solve global problems
By David Shamah
To craft its new Charles River Pale Ale beer, Boston's Harpoon Brewery partnered with Israeli-founded Desalitech to purify 300 gallons of the Charles River, appearing in the background of this September 2015 photo with Harpoon president Charlie Storey (left) and Desalitech CEO Nadav Efraty. (courtesy)
October 5, 2015, 1:23 am
Israelis clean up by brewing beer with Boston river’s ‘dirty water’
To craft Harpoon Brewery’s new pale ale, an Israeli water technology company purified the once filthy Charles River; project aims to increase water awareness
By Matt Lebovic
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jewish community leaders in Florence, Italy, on August 28, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
August 28, 2015, 11:02 pm
PM to Italy’s Jewish leaders: Israeli innovation will defeat BDS
Netanyahu says efforts to isolate Israel will ultimately fail because 'science and technology are stronger than any boycott'
By Tamar Pileggi
Offices of a Jerusalem start-up (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 17, 2015, 6:33 am
Spreading innovation across the Israeli economy
For all Israel's tech prowess, the start-up economy has touched no more than 15% of Israelis. Can it be expanded?
By Naftali Moser
Israel's former president Shimon Peres (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)
April 26, 2015, 10:13 am
Peres said set to advise Israeli pharma giant Teva
Former president will receive $10,000 a month; deal comes days after similar agreement with Bank Hapoalim canceled
By Adiv Sterman
Former president Shimon Peres, seen during an interview in his office in the Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv, September 29, 2014 (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
April 23, 2015, 7:04 pm
Peres pulls out of bank deal after media backlash
Ex-president was to get $30,000 per month from Bank Hapoalim; money would have gone to charity, but he canceled to safeguard his 'good name'
By Jonathan Beck and Tamar Pileggi
Assistant Professor Stephan Rudykh with a sample of the durable material (photo credit: Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology)
April 8, 2015, 6:34 pm
Israeli scientists develop body armor inspired by fish skin
The protective yet flexible material could be used to protect soldiers and space-walking astronauts
By Tamar Pileggi
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