Shi'ite Militias in Syria and Iraq Are Targeting Eilat with Long-Range Drones - Yaakov Lappin (JNS)
    Iranian-backed Shi'ite terrorist militias in Syria and Iraq are consistently using long-range unmanned aerial vehicles to target Israel's Red Sea city of Eilat on a regular basis.
    These UAVs, launched from areas where Iran has entrenched itself, represent a persistent threat to Israeli security and will require more than defensive action to neutralize.
    On Saturday, two UAVs approached the area north of Eilat from Syrian territory and were intercepted before they could inflict any damage.
    In retaliation, the IDF launched strikes against a Syrian military command center and targets used by the Syrian military's Aerial Defense Unit.
    Yet only Israeli strikes on the Shi'ite terrorist entities themselves in Syria and Iraq will remove the threatening capabilities.
    The latest drone attacks from Syria and Iraq indicate a coordinated Iranian effort to create a multi-front threat against Israel, one that, without a direct offensive response, will only grow.

IDF Computer Systems Targeted by Billions of Cyberattacks during War - Oded Yaron (Ha'aretz)
    Col. Racheli Dembinski, commander of the IDF's Center of Computers and Information Systems, said Wednesday that the number of attempted cyberattacks on IDF computer systems has reached 3 billion since the war started.
    All the attacks were foiled, she added, noting that they did not lead to even one occasion in which the army's systems had been taken out of service.
    During the war's first few weeks, due to "the huge number of users who entered our system," her unit focused on regulating resources and adding new servers.
    They also increased their reliance on the civil cloud systems by collaborating with companies such as Google and Amazon, who are members of the army's cloud computing Nimbus project.

Today's Antisemitism Is a U.S. National Security Threat - Ilan Berman (Newsweek)
    On July 9, the U.S. intelligence community divulged that Iran has been playing an active role in stoking the protests, encampments, and civil unrest in the U.S. regarding the war in Gaza.
    Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are being harnessed to harm American interests abroad.
    Amplified by outlets such as Qatar's Al Jazeera network, regional anti-Israel and anti-American attitudes have contributed to a precipitous decline in approval for the U.S. among Mideast publics.
    These same forces are being used to drive wedges in America's Mideast alliances, most clearly the U.S.-Israeli partnership itself.
    Most significantly, antisemitism is being instrumentalized by radical activists and foreign actors to deepen cleavages in American society.
    In May, the Network Contagion Research Institute reported: "While nominally focused on Israel, the current protests can be better understood as a well-funded initiative driving a revolutionary, anti-government, and anti-capitalist agenda, with the leading organizations serving as versatile tools for foreign entities hostile to the U.S."
    "The methods of these organizations exacerbate societal tensions, polarize the younger generation, and appear to seek the destabilization of American institutions."
    There's an old saying: "Whatever starts with the Jews never ends with them."
    The rampant antisemitism visible on elite university campuses, on social media, and on the streets of major cities is a clear and present danger to our social cohesion and our standing in the world.
    That makes it a national security threat which needs to be addressed without delay.
    The writer is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council.

Start-Up Nation Co-Author Optimistic on Israel - Ariel Whitman (Globes)
    Dan Senor, co-author of the 2009 bestseller Start-Up Nation, says Israel still has more startups per capita than any country in the world.
    It attracts the most global venture capital on a per capita basis than any country in the world. It is number one in the world in R&D as a percentage of GDP.
    And it is number four in the world in terms of Israeli public companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
    "Israel has hundreds of venture capital firms, 120 accelerators, 35 incubators, [and] over 400 multinational companies [that] have set up shop in Israel."
    "Now Israelis are starting to build big standalone companies that remain in Israel."
    In 2013, "there was only one company in Israel that was generating over a billion dollars in annual revenue, and that was Check Point. Today, there are nearly a dozen Israeli companies that are generating over a billion dollars in revenue."
    "There's virtually no major global tech company in the world today that doesn't have an operation set up in Israel."
    "All these non-tech companies have [also] set up R&D operations in Israel: Coca-Cola, Walmart, Mercedes-Benz, Procter & Gamble."
    "All these companies have really complicated problems that they can only solve through innovation - and Israeli talent is unique in the world."