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tel.

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. telegram.

  2. telegraph.

  3. telephone.


tel- 2 American  
  1. variant of tele-.

    telesthesia.


tel- 3 American  
  1. variant of tele-.

    telencephalon.


tel- British  

combining form

  1. a variant of tele- telo-

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“You won’t find anything formal about it, but Israel has chosen for now to shelve the normalization, because it’s not willing to pay the price the Saudis have demanded,” said Yoel Guzansky, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, a think tank based in Tel Aviv.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Understanding the nature of consciousness in particular animals would transform how we treat them and emerging biological systems that are being synthetically generated by scientists," said co-author Prof Liad Mudrik from Tel Aviv University and ERC grantee.

From Science Daily

TEL AVIV—On Jan. 7, Parviz Afshari received the last messages his son, Sam, would ever send him: “I’m planning to join the protest tomorrow / But don’t tell Mom.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In Tel Aviv, residents still living with the wreckage from Iranian missile strikes last June are speculating about another conflict.

From BBC

“There is no ‘shock and awe’ solution to the Iranian question,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, alluding to the U.S. bombing campaign before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal