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U.S. Weighs Secure AI Base In Israel's Desert Amid Rising Tech Rivalry With China

The United States is considering establishing a secure artificial intelligence facility in Israel's Negev Desert as part of discussions aimed at protecting advanced technologies and limiting exposure to Chinese espionage risks.

International Business Times

Watch: Missile shrapnel from Iran causes fire, damage to Israel’s Negev Industrial hub

A fire broke out at an industrial complex in southern Israel on Sunday, with the Israeli military saying the damage was likely caused by missile shrapnel following a fresh barrage launched from Iran.

The Times of India

Global protests after all Gaza aid flotilla ships captured by Israeli military in ‘calculated act of intimidation’

Over 400 volunteers have been detained in the notorious Ketziot prison in the Negev desert

The Independent UK

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'Very rare' African ebony figurines found in 1,500-year-old Christian burials in Israeli desert

Three 1,500-year-old burials in the Negev desert have pendants of bone and ebony that may depict the deceased individuals' ancestors.

LiveScience

How Israel weaponized trees in Palestine

Israel's campaign to transform Palestine in their image is destroying the natural environment and erasing history

Salon

‘We will not go away’: Israeli demolitions leave Bedouin homeless

Bedouin erect tents only for Israeli forces to return and dismantle them in Negev village earmarked for clearance

The Guardian - UK

Israel accused of using torture in military prison of Sdei Teiman

In Israel, human rights groups have filed a court case in a bid to close the Sdei Teiman military prison. Set up after the October 7 attacks in the heart of the Negev desert, it serves as a detention centre for prisoners from Gaza. Numerous eyewitness accounts speak of mistreatment…

France 24

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Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’

Donald Trump’s son-in-law also says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there

The Guardian - UK

Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine

On August 12 1949, members of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) unit at the Nirim outpost in the Negev desert were celebrating the successful establishment of their new camp, close to the recently agreed armistice line with Egypt. What happened at that party was long-hidden, until a 2003 investigation by…

The Conversation

Heartbreaking final texts from American man who went missing in Hamas festival attack

Hersh Golberg-Polin, 23, has not been seen or heard from since early Saturday morning when he was partying with hundreds of other ravers at the Supernova festival in northern Negev

The Independent UK

Israel Announces $27 Billion High-speed Rail Project

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a mammoth $27 billion plan to link the north and south of the country by rail

Zenger

17 soul-soothing nature retreats — from Negev to North Wales

Be at one with the earth at these wild hideaways, where epic landscapes let you digital-detox and reconnect with the great outdoors, says Alicia Miller

Evening Standard

Bill on ‘Executing Prisoners’ Passes Preliminary Knesset Vote

The Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian captives, approving it in its preliminary reading. The primary legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have committed a nationalistically motivated murder of an Israeli. According to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Netanyahu Government: West Bank Settlements Top Priority

Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming hard-line Israeli government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its priority list on Wednesday, vowing to legalize dozens of illegally built outposts and annex the occupied territory as part of its coalition deal with ultranationalist allies. The coalition agreements, released a day before the…

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InterCure And Berner's Cookies Launch Flagship Cannabis Pharmacy In Be'er Sheva, Israel

InterCure Ltd. (NASDAQ: INCR) (TSX:INCR.U) (TASE:INCR) is opening its flagship Cookies pharmacy in Be'er Sheva, the largest city in Israel's southern region, known as the capital of the Negev.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Shoukry Visits Washington Two Weeks after Negev Summit

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is expected to meet with his US counterpart, Anthony Blinken, to "intensify communication and coordination" between the two friendly nations. Shoukry's visit also aims "to exchange visions on the most prominent regional and international issues of common concern," the Foreign Ministry said. Shoukry will hold…

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Israeli PM Prevents Gantz from Meeting Jordanian King in Ramallah

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has barred Defense Minister Benny Gantz from attending a meeting in Ramallah on Monday between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II so as not to divert attention from the Negev summit, a political source in Tel Aviv said. The foreign ministers…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Negev Summit Yet to Agree on Joint Statement

Six foreign ministers who met in Israel on Sunday have not yet agreed on a joint statement for the Negev Summit, which will conclude on Monday, according to political sources in Tel Aviv. The sources noted that the officials are having difficulty overcoming the differences regarding the Iranian nuclear program,…

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Blinken in Israel for 'Landmark' Arab Talks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel Sunday for a "historic" meeting with Arab countries which have normalized relations with the Jewish state in the US-brokered Abraham Accords. Blinken, who arrived in Tel Aviv Saturday evening, will meet with his counterparts from Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain and the…

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Israeli Bulldozers Damage Wheat Crops in Negev

Bulldozers from the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Israel Land Authority (ILA) destroyed on Sunday the agricultural farming lands of the Arab citizens in Umm Batin and Tal as-Sabi villages, under the protection of Israeli police and special units. Witnesses said the police closed the area, prevented the land…

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