No oil from Saudi Arabia
Despite various reports on Israeli and Arab media, Saudi Arabia is most likely not willing to start selling oil to Israel. According to the Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, several news outlets reported that Riyadh’s oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim al-Naimi raised the prospect of exports to Israel during a conference of the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries last week in Vienna. After being quoted on various media channels, those report have been proven to be a hoax.
A computerized marathon
This past week, a special marathon took place in Beersheba, Israel, without the contestants even needing to get up from their seats. The 28-hour long WearSheva! Hackathon, was held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and was organized by the Google Developers Group Beersheba (GDG). It involved more than 2010 computer programmers, software developers, graphic designers and other hi-techies who had gathered to come up with new ideas for wearable technology products.
Minimum wage in Israel raised
Head of Israel's top labor union has reached a deal which will see Israel's minimum wage go up significantly, preventing a crippling general strike which was slated to begin this past Thursday, and could have cost Israel almost $500M daily. Histadrut Labor Union Chairman, Avi Nissenkorn, and Tzvika Oren, head of an umbrella group of industrialist employers, met and announced on Wednesday that they have reached an agreement regarding the union's demand to see Israel's dismal minimum wage raised by NIS 700.
IDF’s technological race against time
The IDF’s offensive electronic Warfare Battalion is in a “race against time” against Israel’s enemies, according to The Jerusalem Post. The race is between the battalion, which is tasked with disrupting command and control and communications capabilities, and the terrorist organizations and enemy states that are upgrading their equipment continuously. The secretive battalion, which is able to operate from close and distant ranges, knows how to isolate terrorist cells from command and control centers by muting their radio networks.