150 Israeli companies to be featured in Barcelona telecom expo
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Some 150 Israeli companies will be featured in the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, one of the world’s top telecommunications exhibitions. The Israeli companies make up the conference’s fourth-largest delegation, after the U.S., the U.K., and France.
Scheduled for Feb. 22-25, the Mobile World Congress will feature more than 2,200 exhibitors. Organizers expect some 100,000 visitors, including global mobile industry leaders, high-tech companies, and cellular service operators and providers, as well as the general public.
The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute’s pavilion will feature 140 of the companies, and overall, one of every 13 booths will be hosted by an Israeli telecom company.
The Israeli pavilion will serve as a platform to one of the largest business events held at the exhibition, orchestrated by the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s trade administration. Israeli companies featured in the pavilion will present visitors with new cyber-defense technologies for mobile devices, smart-house technologies, digital medicine innovation, and more.
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Israel bombed Scud missiles meant for Hezbollah, Syrian group says
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli fighter jets carried out an airstrike against targets inside Syria late Wednesday night, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed Thursday.
The alleged attack was the second airstrike attributed to Israel in Syria over the past week. Senior Damascus officials denied the reports, as did the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television network. Israeli officials had no comment on the matter.
The first report of the alleged airstrike said Israeli fighter jets fired missiles at a Syrian army outpost south of Damascus. According to that report, three missiles struck the outpost and caused immense damage. There were no reports of casualties.
Later, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights updated its report to say the airstrike was aimed at facilities belonging to Unit 155 of the Syrian army, which oversees, among other things, the storage of the country’s Scud missiles.
According to the updated report, a shipment of Scuds earmarked for Hezbollah in Lebanon was destroyed. Opposition websites in Syria and Lebanon also claimed that Israeli jets hit a truck that was transferring Scuds and other weapons.
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Denmark institutes new medal of valor in honor of slain Israeli security guard
(JNS.org) Denmark’s parliament announced a new medal of civil valor that will honor Israeli security guard Dan Uzan, who was killed last year while protecting the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen during a terrorist attack that took place during a bat mitzvah ceremony.
The medal is for “citizens who demonstrated unusual courage, while risking their lives in an attempt to save the lives of others, and those who lost their lives during this attempt,” and “refers to incidents related to terrorism, crime, and attacks on the open and democratic society of Denmark and the right to freedom,” the Danish Parliament said in a statement.
Uzan, who was a volunteer security guard at the synagogue, was shot and killed by the terrorist, Omar El-Hussein, but still prevented a massacre during the bat mitzvah. Film director Finn Nørgaard, who used his body to block the same terrorist from entering the Krudttønden Cultural Center hours earlier, will also receive the new Danish medal.
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Palestinian teen terrorists stab 2 Israelis at supermarket, killing 1
(JNS.org) Two Palestinian teenage terrorists on Thursday stabbed two Israelis at a supermarket north of Jerusalem.
The Israeli victims, ages 21 and 36, were evacuated to a Jerusalem hospital. The 21-year-old, off-duty IDF Staff Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, later died from his wounds. The attackers, Bassem Subach and Omar Salim, both 14, were shot by armed civilians at the scene of the attack—the Rami Levy supermarket in the Sha’ar Binyamin area.
The civilians who stopped the attackers, Ben Hamo and Hanamel Even Chen, recounted the attack in interviews with Israel National News.
“I came to shop at Rami Levy, I was in the aisle of aluminum foil and the like, Shabbat candles, and suddenly I heard shouts and immediately I understood that an attack was happening,” Hamo said.
“I ran in the direction of the shouts, I saw a terrorist in front of me with a knife in hand approaching me,” he said. “I told him, ‘Stop, throw away the knife.’ He took another step, I shot him with a precise bullet to bring him down.”
Hamo said he saw the other civilian, Chen, shoot the second terrorist.
“[I] heard another terrorist, I looked to the right, then there was another guy behind me named Hanamel, he shot him with two bullets and eliminated him too,” said Hamo.
Chen said he “saw someone trying to get up after taking some kind of hit from a shopping cart, with a knife in his hand trying to get up towards a woman a meter away from him…. two bullets to the center of his mass, and the guy fell, thank God.”
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Archaeological evidence of 7,000-year-old human village found in Jerusalem
(JNS.org) Israeli archaeologists have discovered evidence of a 7,000-year-old human settlement in northern Jerusalem in a dig conducted in the Shaft neighborhood. The dig was organized and funded by the Moriah Jerusalem Development Corporation.
Remnants discovered from what archaeologists have said is the Chalcolithic period include buildings, pottery, flint tools, and a basalt bowl. That period in early human history is known for being the first time that humans used copper tools.
“Remains from the Chalcolithic period have been found in the Negev, the coastal plain, the Galilee, and the Golan, but they have been almost completely absent in the Judean Hills and in Jerusalem,” explained Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Prehistory Branch Chairman Dr. Omri Barzilai.
“We also recovered a few bones of sheep, goat, and possibly cattle,” said IAA Excavations Director Ronit Lupo. “These will be analyzed further in the Israel Antiquities Authority laboratories, permitting us to recreate the dietary habits of the people who lived here 7,000 years ago and enhancing our understanding of the settlement’s economy.”
Lupo added, “Besides for the pottery, the fascinating finds attest to the livelihood of the local population in prehistoric times—small sickle blades for harvesting cereal crops, chisels and polished axes for building, borers, awls, and even a bead made of carnelian (a gemstone), indicating that jewelry was either made or imported.”
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