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Fast Forward Pay Pal Buys Israeli Cyber Security Start-Up
PayPal has purchased the Israeli cyber security company CyActive for $60 million. The deal for the Beersheba-based CyActive was signed last week and is expected to close shortly, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. A spokeswoman for CyActive, which was founded in 2013, declined to comment on the reports to local media and Reuters. Pay…
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Fast Forward U.S. Official: Proposed Agreement With Iran Not Limited to Decade
The proposed nuclear agreement with Iran will not be limited to a decade, a senior U.S. official said. On Sunday, the unnamed official who briefed Israeli journalists by phone said the deal would include several phases and last for longer than a decade, according to Israeli media reports. The official added that the world powers…
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Fast Forward Iran’s Khamenei Appears in Public To Curb ‘Israeli-Driven’ Rumors of Near Death
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared in public following reports that he was hospitalized with late-stage cancer. Photos of a healthy-looking Khamenei meeting Sunday with environmental officials in Tehran reportedly were posted online in order to “put an end to the Israeli-driven rumors” that the supreme leader was dying, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars…
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Fast Forward Reporter Who Broke Alberto Nisman Story Sues Over Publication of Flight Details
The Argentine-Israeli journalist who first reported the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a lawsuit against two state-owned companies that revealed his private data. Damian Pacther’s lawyer filed a lawsuit on Friday against the state news agency Telam and the Argentinian air carrier Aerolineas Argentinas for making public flight information indicating when he was…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu: Major Powers Say They Will Wait for ‘Right’ Iran Deal
Several major powers’ governments have indicated that they will not sign a bad agreement with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Following my speech to Congress, we heard – over the weekend – several of the major powers’ foreign ministers saying that they do not see the need to reach an agreement forthwith and…
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Fast Forward Camp David’s Malley To Head Middle East Desk at National Security Council
The White House named Robert Malley, a U.S. negotiator at the 2000 Camp David talks, to lead the Middle East desk at the National Security Council. Malley, whose appointment was announced on Friday afternoon, since last year has handled the Iraq-Iran-Syria-Gulf States desk. In replacing Philip Gordon, who has been Middle East coordinator since 2013,…
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Fast Forward Menendez Will Stick With Iran Bill Timetable Despite Corruption Charges
A spokesman for Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said he would press ahead with two bills seeking a greater congressional say over Iran nuclear talks even as he faces corruption charges. “The senator will continue to push forward on the pressing foreign policy issues of the day, to include the two Iran bills he co-authored, which…
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Fast Forward 40,000 Gather for Anti-Netanyahu Rally in Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered at a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square calling for a change in the government. The anti-Netanyahu rally held on Saturday night, which attracted up to 40,000 people, was billed as the “Israel Wants Change” event, and was organized by the One Million Hands movement, a grassroots campaign against…
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