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The British company Mimecast, an e-mail and information security company, is acquiring Segasec Israel, a digital threat solutions provider. The companies refused to disclose the value of the deal, but Calcalist learned it was valued at about $ 40 million. Following the acquisition, Mimecast will be able to offer its customers protection against attacks that exploit fake websites and domains to "harvest" personal information of their customers, employees, partners and suppliers across the supply chain

Israel dropped from 5th place to 7th place in the global artificial intelligence ranking published by Tortoise Media, after Singapore and South Korea overtook it. Although even after the drop, Israel is still in a very high place in the world ranking, but the drop reinforces the fears that the lack of government investment in infrastructure and academic research may cause Israel to lose its lead - and open a gap with other countries in the field of artificial intelligence. Tortoise Media's AI Index report presents a ranking that represents the 62 countries leading the global artificial...

US chip giant Intel will buy Israeli startup Habana Labs for $ 2 billion. Bana Labs produces chips specifically designed for artificial intelligence processing. In the announcement of the acquisition, Intel said that the founder and chairman of the company, Avigdor Vilentz, "will serve as senior advisor to the business unit as well as Intel" and that the company will continue to operate from Israel. Intel said the two companies "could accelerate the development of the best artificial intelligence products into data centers. The integration of the companies strengthens Intel's line of...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a highly anticipated speech to both houses of the American Congress, marking his fourth address, a record for a foreign leader. However, his appearance was overshadowed by arrests of relatives of abductees and significant protests

In 2018, the Ministry of Education continued to budget the religious high school students at huge sums and to discriminate against secular and Arab students, according to the ministry's data on how the ministry distributed the budget. The new Minister of Education, Rafi Peretz, who has been prominent in his recent recommendation to the lesbian and gay community to undergo conversion treatments from their sexual orientation, sought to increase the budgets allocated to religious students even more. The Ministry of Education prided itself on narrowing the gaps, but such a policy is not...

The Israeli astronaut and businessman Eitan Steva, along with members of the AX-1 mission team Dragon, landed on Earth off the coast of Florida. The exciting moment of landing was preceded by a number of stages, when the process of disconnection from the International Space Station began at 03:55 (Israel time). Steva has been in space since April 8, completing a total of 17 days in space, 16 of them at the International Space Station. Just before entering the atmosphere, the spacecraft's crew compartment separated from the service cell (which includes the solar panels) and activated its...