United States President Barack Obama said Thursday that there was \’no crisis\’ in ties with Israel, despite a high-profile diplomatic feud over the Netanyahu administration\’s plans to build Jewish homes in east Jerusalem.
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A migrant worker in the northern Negev was killed by a rocket fired by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
When Intel’s Israeli division proposed a new strategy to vastly improve the processing speed of the company\’s laptop computer chips, Intel\’s U.S. management had no interest.\n\nThe idea required a fundamental change in Intel’s technological approach, which had been to build what were known as faster “clock speeds” — essentially, faster \”engines\” — to accelerate processing. Israel\’s division proposed to run the engine of the chip slower, but to gain even more power by configuring a system that used gears like a car.\n
A Polish court convicted three men for stealing the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz.\n\nThe Polish men, who confessed last week to cutting the 16-foot metal sign in pieces and stealing it, were given sentences ranging from six months to 2 1/2 years, according to reports.\n
In his first public remarks on the strain in U.S.-Israel ties, President Obama said there was no crisis in relations between the two countries.\n\nIn an interview with Fox News aired Wednesday night, the U.S. leader said Israel\’s announcement last week during Vice President Joe Biden\’s visit of new construction in eastern Jerusalem has not led to a crisis in ties between Israel and the United States.\n
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