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Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Sunday, December 25, 2016

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A virtual Shop Direct chair in a potential customer's living room, courtesy of augmented-reality technology (Courtesy)

Snapchat acquires Israel’s Cimagine – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Image messaging app Snapchat buys augmented reality startup for an estimated $30m-$40m, according to Calcalist

Israel-Vietnam financial protocol agreement promotes Vietnamese exports

Israel is interested in developing Vietnamese SMEs, if they will do projects with Israeli companies, by giving them access to loans with preferential interest rates

Rabbi Grinch and the Christmas tree

A rabbi’s ruling to keep Jewish Technion students away from a “Pagan idol” is incorrect and smacks of bigotry

Fragment of a chalk bowl from the Hasmonean period, on which the name Hyrcanus appears. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeologists unearth name linked to Hasmonean kings etched on Jerusalem stone

By Ilan Ben Zion

Bowl fragment, dating back 2,100 years, may be associated with Jewish monarchs Hyrcanus, who are descended from Maccabees, though name was common

A frame from the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster 'Armageddon,' which tells the story of a team that lands on a massive asteroid to prevent it from destroying the earth (courtesy Touchstone Pictures)

Apocalypse later

Star slated to pass dangerously near earth – later

Gliese 710 will traverse Solar Systems Oort Cloud in 1.35 million years, possibly sending comets in Earth’s direction

This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)

Ministers vote to advance bill targeting Facebook incitement

Legislation would give court authority to force Facebook, Google to block content deemed to endanger security

Illustrative: A poster put up without permission in a London underground train on February 22, 2016, to mark the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement's 12th anti-Israel Apartheid Week. (Youtube)

Some UK universities ‘too anti-Semitic for Jewish students’

Retired higher education adjudicator Ruth Deech says vast funding by Gulf states may be part of reason some institutions fail to battle Jew-hatred

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KamaTech's busload of Haredi women visit high-tech offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Courtesy Natalie Schor)

Armed with faith and kids, Haredi women set eyes on tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Fresh.fund managing partner, Zaki Djemal, left, and fresh.fund project manager, Nitzan Adler addressing students (Courtesy)

Jerusalem student fund for student ventures to kick off

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