(L-R) Aviv Geffen, Margalit Tzanani
Simon Cowell’s show will also select Israel’s contender for Eurovision 2022.
Universal Music Group and
Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment will award an international recording deal to the winner of the upcoming season of
The X Factor Israel, something never before done in the Israeli music market.
The high-profile collaboration with Israeli TV network Reshet 13 and multinational production companies Fremantle Media and Syco Entertainment, comes less than a year after UMG opened its first-ever office in Israel.
The recording deal is the latest announcement leading to the relaunch this fall of
The X Factor Israel, which will feature a panel of judges to be presided over by music manager Cowell, who will travel to the holy land to record the show. Cowell previously served as the main judge on the original U.K. version of
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The Iranian attack, the third in about six weeks, came in response to a number of attacks attributed to Israel on Iranian vessels and took place after the Israeli attacks had been made public for the first time.
The NYT, unencumbered by Israeli censorship, could refer to the Israeli attacks as a fact, and report that Israel had asked for the Americans’ help specifically in protecting the last vessel to be attacked, Hyperion Ray. Perhaps this is why the ship was only very slightly damaged and could continue sailing.
The missile fired at Hyperion Ray followed three attacks attributed to Israel within less than a week. These consisted of a routine shelling on an Iranian arms delivery in Damascus, an explosion on a command vessel of the Revolutionary Guard in the Red Sea and an explosion in the nuclear facility in Natanz, which apparently disrupted the centrifuges’ uranium enriching activity for months to come.
Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran nuke facility electrical fault
Standard preface is this is entirely about the possibility of a cyberattack perpetrated by powerful nation-state actors, and the security implications around that. And why I personally
worry about loose talk of socalled surgical cyberstrikes, to use the nom du juor. All too often it s too easy to forget that Newton s 3rd Law doesn t just apply to physics, and collateral
damage doesn t really care about any arbitrary differentiator one d like to apply.
Take what you will from this story.
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Iran has admitted that one of its nuclear facilities went offline over the weekend, and a single report claiming Israeli cyber-weapons were the cause has been widely accepted as a credible explanation for the incident. Iran on Sunday published this announcement that said an “accident” impacted the “electricity distribution network” at its Natanz enrichment facility. Few nations like the idea of Iran