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On Campus / Education / Politics

Haifa U Instructing Students on Resisting Fake News

By JNi.Media

As part of a new course, lecturers will explain that “fake news” is just another word for propaganda, and that we’ve already left the nightmare vision of Orwell’s 1984 far behind.

Health and Medicine / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Israeli Breakthrough Could Diagnose Sleep Disorders While You’re Awake

By Israel 21C

Smartphone system under development at Ben-Gurion University can evaluate apnea and other sleep disorders at home, without contact sensors.

Guest Blog

A Soldier’s Father and His Smartphone

By Michael Freund

My son the soldier, in silhouette, sitting alone in his uniform on top of a mountain, wrapped in his tefillin, reading from a siddur, the sun rising in the distance, bursting forth into the sky-NACHAS

Haredim & Hassidim / Israel / Judaism / News Briefs / Religion / Science and Tech

Israeli Chasidic Rebbe Permits Use of Filtered Internet, Smartphones

By JNi.Media

In the Karlin-Stoliner Rebbe's opinion, a draconian, sweeping prohibition on electronic communications creates a situation where many break the law in secret and are exposed to dangerous content.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Religion / Religious & Secular in Israel

IDF Using Facebook to Catch Fraudulent Chareidi Draft Dodgers

By Jewish Press News Desk

The young men "shared" their lives on Facebook, proving they were not living Chareidi lives, as they had claimed to the IDF.

Israel / News Briefs

Israeli Start-Up May Charge Your Smartphone in 30 Seconds (Video)

By Jewish Press News Desk

An Israeli startup company called StoreDot has unveiled a prototype charger that can re-energize a phone battery in 30 seconds. The new technology was based on research for Alzheimer’s disease at the nanotechnology department of Tel Aviv University, but the prototype still needs to be developed into a smaller batter to be of commercial use. […]

Israel / News Briefs

Israeli 'Start Up' Couple's Gadget Holds Smartphones in the Car

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

‘The Start= Up” Nation has come through again, this time with a $9 gadget that solves the problem of holding a smartphone, that may have cost several hundred bucks, anywhere in the car, safely and securely.

Global / Israel / News Briefs / US

Savvy Israelis Ahead of US in Smartphone Internet Use

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel often can be seen with two cell phones, one in each ear. Smartphones have been around in Israel only since 2009 but already are in most Israeli’s hands. No wonder Waze was made in Israel

Israel / News Briefs

Samsung S4 Smartphone Makes ‘Aliyah’ and Costs $1,100

By Jewish Press News Desk

Samsung's Galaxy S4 flagship Smartphone arrived in Israel this week with an official price tag of approximately $1,100 (3,600-3,700 shekels). Prices may drop a bit if local mobile carriers try to undercutting each other, and one retailer already is offering it for $920. The Samsung S4 has a five-inch screen with a super-thin glass and […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Terrorism

IDF to Protect Smartphones from Hi-Tech Spies

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF soon will install protective systems onboard its smartphones used by the IDF to protect them against digital Trojan horses and prevent various spyware software using the devices eavesdropping, Israel Defense reported. The military’s Information Security department has determined there has been a significant rise in risks to the sensitive data found on cell […]

Israel / News Briefs / Terrorism

App Helps Israelis Seek Bomb Shelters

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Smartphone apps provide a wide range of services, including information and entertainment, but in Israel, the apps have another unique life-saving use – finding a bomb shelter. Following the recent security-related tension in northern Israel as civil war rages in Syria, i-Apps, an Israeli Smartphone application development company, has updated its "Merkhav Mugan" [residential secure […]

Jewish / Religion

Smartphone app Has Text of Megillah and Drowns Out Haman’s Name

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

What would Purim be without the following apps? One Smartphone app provides a noisemaker, and another lets you choose which noise to make – such as a machine gun or air horn.

A Soldier's Mother

The Next War With Apps and GPS

By Paula R. Stern

What does it say about us that we create programs to measure how fast we can run and where we can seek shelter?

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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