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      <description><![CDATA[A report by Fusion VC finds fewer investors making more bets, with rising expectations for founders to prove traction quickly in an increasingly concentrated market]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The event symbolized a new stage of national healing amid the retrieval of the final hostage from Gaza, and followed a record-breaking year for cybersecurity.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israel is laying the groundwork for its “Systems Nation” boom, which is less dependent on foreign aid.]]></description>
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      <title>Israel closely watching Europe’s Muslim Brotherhood problem</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Can democratic societies afford to ignore movements whose power lies not in what they destroy, but in what they quietly reshape?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The continent may protest Israel politically, but economically, it is building a future that relies on Israeli innovation, according to a new report.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cybersecurity is one of the Jewish state’s largest tech sectors, with nearly $5 billion raised across more than 130 funding rounds in 2025.]]></description>
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      <title>‘Israel needs to remain in the forefront of the AI race’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The fact that Israel is in a good situation in the worldwide AI race does not say anything about the future,” warns the CEO of its Innovation Authority.]]></description>
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