Did Rihanna say “All I see is Palestine?”
Haaretz.com claimed she did, in the middle of her performance in Tel-Aviv. The news spread quickly and even reached The Huffington Post, until The Times of Israel revealed the accusations aimed to the Israel-fan pop star were not true.
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The day of local municipalities
On Tuesday, municipal elections took place in Israel. On that day, all citizens of all cities and local councils cast their vote for the future of their home. The municipal elections in Israel consist of two ballots – a yellow ballot one for a candidate to be the chairman of the local authority in a direct election, and a white ballot for a list of candidates for the city councils or the local councils.
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Israelis to develop the new generation of automobiles
When needing to come up with a brand new startup, would you turn to anywhere else but the Startup Nation? General Motors have been working on the next generation of automobiles: a self-driving, self-parking car that, equipped with a wealth of sensors and communications equipment, aims to reduce car accidents. The technology needed for this vehicle of the future is being developed at GM’s research and development facility in Israel.
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In space with the EU
Another big loss to BDS! The pressure put on the European Union to boycott Israel is nothing compared to the major profit they can gain from cooperating with the Israeli brain. At a gala event held last week in Jerusalem, Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri and the head of the Israel Space Agency, Menachem Kidron, signed an agreement with European Union officials to give Israeli researchers and companies access to projects associated with the EU’s Galileo satellite program.
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A call from space
Next Thursday, students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will go through a once in a lifetime experience, listening to a lecture from space. For the first time, Israel will have a live video hookup with the International Space Station, when Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, a member of the European Space Agency’s mission on the space station, will give a lecture to the students and then answer their questions. On the day of the broadcast, he will have been in space for 166 days, during which time he has conducted nearly two dozen experiments.
