MashableGoogle acquired SlickLogin, an early-stage Israeli startup that had been developing alternative web-login options, the company announced Sunday. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Started by three graduates from the Israel Defense Forces,…
BloombergRakuten Inc. (4755), the Japanese online retailer controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, is buying the Viber Internet messaging and calling service for $900 million as it moves into social networking. Viber will provide a distribution…
Al-BawabaLivni and Erekat reportedly had a heated argument over the peace talks in Munich. Here, they are accompanied by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. (AFP/File). More >. Create alert for WashingtonWashington. ,. Create alert…
HaaretzPM issues ultimatum to economy minister: Apologize by Sunday or you’re fired; Bennett says regrets if Netanyahu was hurt; Likud officials: We didn’t expect our threat to work so quickly. By Barak Ravid | Jan….
USA TODAYPresident Obama urged the nation and world Monday to remember the victims in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Each year on this day the world comes together to commemorate a barbaric crime unique…
Jerusalem PostIsraeli delegation to site of concentration camp in Poland includes more than 250 people; Lawmakers from 13 countries also attending. The largest-ever delegation of MKs, plus hundreds of Israelis and Jewish politicians from around…
AFPJerusalem — Two Palestinians were hurt, one critically, in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Sunday, which the military said had targeted a senior Islamic Jihad militant. Gaza emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra…
USA TODAYHundreds of Israeli VIPs and international dignitaries attended a state memorial ceremony for the late Ariel Sharon on Monday, remembering the controversial former prime minister as a bold leader who was devoted to Israel’s…
TIMEThe current round of Israeli-Palestinian talks have taken place in a climate of cynicism. But a new American proposal has given the negotiations some momentum, at least on the Israeli side. By Karl Vick /…
RTAfrican migrants hold a sign during a protest at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv January 5, 2014.(Reuters / Nir Elias). Tags. Africa, Immigration, Israel, Politics, Protest, Rally. Tens of thousands of Africans took to the…
Jewish Telegraphic AgencyDoctors believe that Ariel Sharon won’t live much longer. But who would have predicted when he had his debilitating stroke in January 2004 that he would hang on for eight years in a…
Jewish Daily ForwardJennifer Gorovitz, the chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Jewish federation and the only woman to head a large Jewish federation in the United States, announced that she will resign from her position…
USA TODAYJERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli hospital treating Ariel Sharon says the former prime minister’s medical condition remains critical. Tel Hashomer hospital made the announcement in a short text message to reporters Saturday evening. “There…
Jewish Daily ForwardJennifer Gorovitz, the chief executive officer of San Francisco’s Jewish federation and the only woman to head a large Jewish federation in the United States, announced that she will resign from her position…
USA TODAYISLAMABAD (AP) — A 72-year-old American development worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan by al-Qaeda more than two years ago appealed to President Obama in a video released Thursday to negotiate his release, saying…
Ex-president of Atlanta synagogue killed in city plane crashJewish Telegraphic AgencyPeter Mallen, 67, the founder of a high-tech textile company and president of The Temple in Atlanta from 2004 to 2006, was piloting the plane…
AllAfrica.comMandela or Madiba as he’s fondly referred to, a giant in social and political change has passed on. As it has been variously noted and correctly so, we’ll never see another Mandela in our life…
