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Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Thursday, July 19, 2018

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Illustrative image of an Israel Electricity Corporation worker raised by crane to a utility pole to perform maintenance works on June 10, 2013. (Flash 90)

Knesset approves ‘historic’ reform of electricity sector

By Shoshanna Solomon

10-year, NIS 7.1 billion process aims to increase competition and streamline the Israel Electric Corp.

Shipping giant Zim has successfully experimented with a blockchain to create an electronic bill-of-lading (Warhaftig Venezian)

Israel’s Zim strikes alliance with global shipping giants to share routes

By Shoshanna Solomon

Zim will join forces with Maersk and MSC to provide service on Asia-US East Coast trade lines

Netanyahu hails 'pivotal moment in the annals of Zionism'

Israel passes Jewish state law, enshrining ‘national home of the Jewish people’

By Raoul Wootliff

After hours of furious debate, Knesset narrowly approve quasi-constitutional Basic Law, which critics say discriminates against Arabs and other minority communities

Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

LGBTs call nationwide strike in protest of surrogacy law excluding gays

By Stuart Winer

Microsoft, Mellanox pledge to give NIS 60,000 to any employee who wants to have children via surrogacy

Damage caused to houses in the city of Tiberias in northern Israel after earthquakes shook the area, July 9, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90, File)

State comptroller: Israel unprepared for major quake, ignoring warnings

Yosef Shapira says recommendations from previous reports not implemented, as experts warn strong tremor likely

Naftali Bennett

UK Labour will not divide the Jewish people

When you reject the very definition of anti-Semitism, you’re trying to drive a wedge between Jews and Israel

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Shoshanna Solomon

I can’t even give in to cruise control. How could I cope in an autonomous car?

ToI’s tech editor doesn’t want anything taking any control of her car, and it turns out she’s not alone. Which is why experts are working on the ‘trust’ as well as the tech

An Intel Corp./Mobileye self-driving car with a human driver behind the steering wheel (YouTube screenshot)

A picture taken on October 17, 2016 shows an employee walking behind a glass wall with machine coding symbols at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow. (AFP/Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)

'No one knew this was the meaning of the bill'

Unwitting Israeli MKs almost pass law allowing sweeping internet censorship

By Raoul Wootliff

Bill that would have given state power to block content on any website stymied by Netanyahu hours before final vote, after Times of Israel queries MKs about its drastic provisions

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