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The Supreme Court ruled that claims filed by Israelis against Facebook will be clarified in Israeli courts, even though the agreement to join the site states that they will be found in a court in California, the United States. The court accepted the attorney general's position that the "Californian" clause in the accession agreement that determines the place of jurisdiction is a depriving condition in a uniform contract and therefore should be annulled. However, the court ruled that the claims would be clarified according to American law, because it has not been proved that the very fact of...

Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen and Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, opened the festive salute marking 70 years of Israeli innovation at the UN headquarters in New York, attended by more than 500 diplomats and community leader Jewish community in North America. Minister Cohen arrived on an official visit to Canada and the United States as head of a government delegation including Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Innovation Authority, Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Head of the Foreign Trade Administration, Ohad Cohen, and Chairman of the Export Institute Adiv Baruch.

Dutch health giant Philips buys the company from Caesarea founded by entrepreneur Shlomo Ben Haim, who also serves as chairman. According to the deal, Philips will pay 250 million euros in cash and another 210 million euros if the Israeli company meets its milestones. The Israeli company develops cardiac imaging systems and serves as a navigation system for patients with heart failure disorders.

A delegation of Chinese giant corporations arrived in Israel during the IPIEC Global 2018 competition, which aims to locate start-ups around the world at the initial product stage. As part of the competition, start-ups will be able to present new ideas to investors, promote strategic cooperation with companies in China and gain a foothold in new markets and among government officials. The investment in the project is about $ 25 million in innovative projects in the fields of autonomous vehicles, renewable energy, artificial intelligence and robotics, big data, bio-medicine, IT and...

Intel has announced its cooperation with two Israeli start-ups in the cyber field: Duality and Enigma. "I am proud that Israeli companies and partners are launching new solutions that use Intel technology to provide additional protection," said Rick Echeveria, vice president, software and services group and general manager of Intel's Global Platform Security Division, who visits Israel on the occasion of the Cyber ​​Week. Duality is a member of the team8, which is managed by the commander of the former Unit 8200 Nadav Tsafrir, which was founded in 2014 and is a hotbed for initiating and...

An employee at NSO, a cyber-security company stole software from the company and tried to sell it on DarkNet. Due to the security aspects of the software, the employee is accused of attempting to harm property that would have harmed state security. According to the indictment filed with the Tel Aviv District Court, the defendant worked for NSO, which develops cellular tracking tools. After the employee was summoned to a hearing before his dismissal, he downloaded the company's software and tried to sell them to another person, but he turned to the company and reported the transfer and the...

Israel will launch to the moon an unmanned spacecraft by the end of the year. In this way, Israel will join a prestigious and limited club in which only three countries currently belong: the United States, Russia and China. IAI has been developing the spacecraft and has been building it for eight years in cooperation with Space Ill. The spacecraft will be launched from the United States in December, and after two months at a distance of nearly four hundred thousand kilometers, it will land on the moon

The Lockheed Martin arms corporation has announced its cooperation with Rafael Israel to market the most accurate air-to-surface aerial bombs in the world. Rafael will set up a production line for SPICE 1000 and SPICE 2000 systems in the US, which will enable it to sell the systems used by the Air Force in Israel, using the defense aid funds that come from the US administration. The cooperation agreement was designed to overcome the implications of the American aid agreement signed last year, which gradually eliminates the possibility of the Ministry of Defense purchasing weapons and...