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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Babylon</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><div class="infobox-caption">Babylon version 10.0</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Amnon Ovadia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Babylon Software Ltd.</td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release(s)</a> <span class="" style="font-size:smaller; margin:0px"><a class="external text external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Latest_stable_software_release/Babylon?action=edit">[±]</a></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><table class="infobox-subbox"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Windows</th><td class="infobox-data">11.0.1.6 / 22&nbsp;June 2021<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2021-06-22</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Android</th><td class="infobox-data">4.1.2 / 16&nbsp;December 2016<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2016-12-16</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">iOS</th><td class="infobox-data">2.0.1 / 14&nbsp;February 2013<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2013-02-14</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Windows Phone</th><td class="infobox-data">1.0 / 18&nbsp;January 2012<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2012-01-18</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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<ul><li><a href="Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a> and later</li>
<li><a href="Android_Gingerbread" title="Android Gingerbread">Android 2.3.3</a> and later<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="IOS_5" title="IOS 5">iOS 5.1</a> or later<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><a href="Windows_Phone_8" title="Windows Phone 8">Windows Phone 8</a> and <a href="Windows_Phone_8.1" title="Windows Phone 8.1">8.1</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Dictionary" title="Dictionary">Dictionary</a>, <a href="Machine_translation" title="Machine translation">machine translator</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Freemium" title="Freemium">Freemium</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://babylon-software.com">babylon-software<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Babylon</b> is a <a href="Dictionary-based_machine_translation" title="Dictionary-based machine translation">computer dictionary and translation</a> program developed by the <a href="Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> company Babylon Software Ltd. based in the city of <a href="Or_Yehuda" title="Or Yehuda">Or Yehuda</a>. The company was established in 1997 by the Israeli entrepreneur Amnon Ovadia. Its <a href="Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">IPO</a> took place ten years later. It is considered a part of Israel's <a href="Download_Valley" title="Download Valley">Download Valley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a cluster of software companies monetizing "free" software downloads through <a href="Adware" title="Adware">adware</a>. Babylon includes in-house proprietary dictionaries, as well as community-created dictionaries and glossaries. It is a tool used for translation and conversion of currencies, measurements and time, and for obtaining other contextual information. The program also uses a <a href="Text-to-speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Text-to-speech">text-to-speech</a> agent, so users hear the proper pronunciation of words and text. Babylon has developed 36 English-based proprietary dictionaries in 21 languages. In 2008–2009, Babylon reported earnings of 50 million <a href="Israeli_new_shekel" title="Israeli new shekel">NIS</a> through its collaboration with <a href="Google" title="Google">Google</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Between 2010 and 2013, Babylon became infamous for demonstrating questionable behavior typical of malware: A <i>Babylon Toolbar</i> bundled with Babylon and other software, has been widely identified as a <a href="Browser_hijacker" class="mw-redirect" title="Browser hijacker">browser hijacker</a> that is very easy to install inadvertently and unnecessarily difficult to remove.<sup id="cite_ref-Babylon_Search_Hijacker_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Babylon_Search_Hijacker-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Remove_Babylon_Search_Toolbar_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Remove_Babylon_Search_Toolbar-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Come-Uppance_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Come-Uppance-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Getting_rid_of_Babylon_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Getting_rid_of_Babylon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This eventually led to Google terminating its agreement with Babylon Ltd. in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-Google_says_enough!_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google_says_enough!-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>In 1995, <a href="Israel" title="Israel">Israeli</a> entrepreneur Amnon Ovadia began a project for an online English–<a href="Hebrew_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew Language">Hebrew</a> dictionary that would not interrupt the reading process. As a result, Babylon Ltd. was founded in 1997 and launched the first version of Babylon. On 25 September 1997, the company filed a patent for text recognition and translation.<sup id="cite_ref-EKsIAAAAEBAJ_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EKsIAAAAEBAJ-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1998, a year following its launch date, Babylon had two million users, mostly in Germany and Brazil,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> growing from 420,000 to 2.5 million users in the course of that year. In the same year, <a href="Formula_Systems" title="Formula Systems">Formula Systems</a>, headed by <a href="Dan_Goldstein" title="Dan Goldstein">Dan Goldstein</a>, acquired Mashov Computers and became the largest shareholder in the company. By 2000, the product had over 4 million users. In the spring of 2000, Babylon Ltd. failed to raise $20 million in a private placement and lost <a href="Israeli_new_sheqel" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli new sheqel">NIS</a> 15 million.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further stress came with the collapse of the <a href="Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">Dot-com bubble</a>. In 2001, Babylon Ltd. continued shedding money, with the company costing its parent company Formula Vision NIS 4.7 million.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Since 2007, Babylon Ltd. (<a href="Tel_Aviv_Stock_Exchange" title="Tel Aviv Stock Exchange">TASE</a>:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tase.co.il/TASEEng/Management/GeneralPages/SimpleSearchResult.htm?objectId=&amp;objectType=&amp;securityType=&amp;searchTerm=BBYL">BBYL</a>) has been a publicly traded company. Its <a href="Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">IPO</a> took place in February 2007; Israeli businessman <a href="Noam_Lanir" title="Noam Lanir">Noam Lanir</a> purchased controlling interests in the company for $10.5 million, sharing management with second majority shareholder <a href="Reed_Elsevier" class="mw-redirect" title="Reed Elsevier">Reed Elsevier</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Company founder, Amnon Ovadia. According to <a href="Globes_(newspaper)" title="Globes (newspaper)">Globes</a> magazine in January 2011, Lanir received an offer for his stake from a foreign private equity fund that valued the company at <a href="Israeli_new_shekel" title="Israeli new shekel">NIS</a> 248 million (approximately 70 million dollars).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2008–2009, Babylon reported earnings of NIS 50 million through its collaboration with Google. In 2010, Google Ireland signed an extended cooperation agreement with Babylon to provide it with online search and pay-per-click advertising services.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2011, Babylon was named the seventh most popular website in Libya, the eighth in Algeria and the eleventh in Tunisia.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>According to <a href="Globes_(newspaper)" title="Globes (newspaper)">Globes</a> magazine, Noam Lanir, who acquired control of Babylon for NIS 20 million, made a paper profit of NIS 200 million on his investment in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-globes.co.il_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globes.co.il-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the same source, the Babylon website achieved an <a href="Alexa_Internet" title="Alexa Internet">Alexa</a> ranking of 45 in April 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-globes.co.il_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globes.co.il-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In October 2014, the translation business was purchased by Babylon Software Ltd.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Product_features">Product features</h2></div>
<p>A single click on any text using the right mouse button or combination of the right mouse button and a keyboard modifier, and the Babylon window appears providing a translation and definition of the clicked term.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Babylon is a tool used for translation and conversion of currencies, measurements and time, and for obtaining other contextual information. Babylon has a patented <a href="Optical_character_recognition" title="Optical character recognition">OCR</a> technology and a single-click activation that works in any <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> application, such as <a href="Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word">Microsoft Word</a>, <a href="Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a>, <a href="Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a>, <a href="Internet_Explorer" title="Internet Explorer">Internet Explorer</a> and <a href="Adobe_Reader" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe Reader">Adobe Reader</a>. When activated, Babylon opens a small popup window that displays the translation or definition. To solve the incompatibility problem of Babylon OCR browsers extension; users can benefit from Capture2Text free app version 3.9 (only 3.9v) which is compatible with Babylon 8 or another version. While dragging its capture box in any text from any browsers, then a pop-up box appears and Babylon could easily grasp it. Babylon provides full text <a href="Translation" title="Translation">translation</a>, full <a href="Web_page" title="Web page">Web page</a> and full document translation in many languages and supports integration with <a href="Microsoft_Office" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office</a>. Babylon enables the translation of <a href="Microsoft_Word_document" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Word document">Microsoft Word documents</a> and <a href="Plain_text" title="Plain text">plain text</a> files. It offers results from a database of over 1,700 sources in over 75 languages.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dictionaries_and_encyclopedias">Dictionaries and encyclopedias</h3></div>
<p>Babylon includes its in-house proprietary dictionaries, community-created dictionaries and glossaries (<a href="User-generated_content" title="User-generated content">UGC</a>), which include general and technical dictionaries, language and monolingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias and lexicons in a multitude of languages. They are indexed in 400 categories covering the arts, business, computers, health, law, entertainment, sports and so on.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The program also uses a <a href="Text-to-speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Text-to-speech">text-to-speech</a> agent so users hear the proper pronunciation of words and text. Babylon Ltd. has developed 36 English-based proprietary dictionaries in 21 languages (English, Arabic, <a href="Simplified_Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Simplified Chinese">Simplified Chinese</a>, <a href="Traditional_Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional Chinese">Traditional Chinese</a>, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish) that are free of charge to users of the software. These dictionaries comprise between 60,000 and 200,000 terms, phrases, acronyms and abbreviations and are enabled with a morphological engine which facilitates recognition of all inflected forms of single words and phrases, provides all forms of terms that include prefixes and extensions and supplies a solution for all formats of writing. Babylon's <a href="Linguistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Linguistic">Linguistic</a> Department is responsible for the extensive content and information database which is a significant component of Babylon's Product.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Malware_issues">Malware issues</h2></div>

<p>On 7 August 2010, Microsoft antivirus products identified the software application as <a href="Adware" title="Adware">adware</a> (identified as "Adware: Win32/Babylon") due to potentially intrusive behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sixteen days later, on 23 August 2010, Microsoft announced that Babylon Ltd. had modified the program and that it was no longer categorized as adware.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2011, <a href="Download.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Download.com">Download.com</a> started bundling the Babylon Toolbar with open-source packages such as <a href="Nmap" title="Nmap">Nmap</a>. <a href="Gordon_Lyon" title="Gordon Lyon">Gordon Lyon</a>, the developer of Nmap, criticized the decision.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The vice-president of Download.com, Sean Murphy, released an apology: "The bundling of this software was a mistake on our part and we apologize to the user and developer communities for the unrest it caused."<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2012 the Babylon search toolbar was identified as a <a href="Browser_hijacker" class="mw-redirect" title="Browser hijacker">browser hijacker</a> that, while very easy to install inadvertently, is unnecessarily difficult to remove afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-Babylon_Search_Hijacker_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Babylon_Search_Hijacker-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Remove_Babylon_Search_Toolbar_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Remove_Babylon_Search_Toolbar-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Come-Uppance_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Come-Uppance-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The toolbar is listed as an unwanted application by anti-spyware software such as Stopzilla or <a href="Spybot_%E2%80%93_Search_%26_Destroy" title="Spybot – Search &amp; Destroy">Spybot – Search &amp; Destroy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many users, trying to uninstall Babylon, have searched for help on different support forums.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The toolbar tends to install itself onto computers as an add-on with other software and changes users' home page to the Babylon search engine, adds the search engine to the computer and sets itself as the default.<sup id="cite_ref-Getting_rid_of_Babylon_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Getting_rid_of_Babylon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It changes browser preferences such as the user's home page and search engine, changes that can be very difficult to reverse.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>On 29 October 2013, <a href="Google" title="Google">Google</a> notified Babylon that it did not intend to renew its cooperation agreement between the two companies, which terminated on 30 November 2013. Google said that complaints had been received from <a href="Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a> users, claiming that the Babylon toolbar damages the browser's user experience. According to Babylon, Google may have reconsidered the decision during 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-Google_says_enough!_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google_says_enough!-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since that point Babylon Software no longer distributes any toolbars or offers any 3rd party software.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Anki_(software)" title="Anki (software)">Anki</a></li>
<li><a href="StarDict" title="StarDict">StarDict</a></li>
<li><a href="Comparison_of_machine_translation_applications" title="Comparison of machine translation applications">Comparison of machine translation applications</a></li>
<li><a href="Download_Valley" title="Download Valley">Download Valley</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<li><a href="Elbit_Systems" title="Elbit Systems">Elbit Systems</a></li>
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<li><a href="Shikun_%26_Binui" title="Shikun &amp; Binui">Shikun &amp; Binui</a></li>
<li><a href="ICL_Group_Ltd." title="ICL Group Ltd.">Israel Chemicals</a></li>
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<li><a href="Mazor_Robotics" title="Mazor Robotics">Mazor Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Mellanox_Technologies" title="Mellanox Technologies">Mellanox Technologies</a></li>
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<li><a href="Oramed" title="Oramed">Oramed</a></li>
<li><a href="Ormat_Technologies" title="Ormat Technologies">Ormat Technologies</a></li>
<li><a href="Osem_(company)" title="Osem (company)"> Osem</a></li>
<li><a href="Rami_Levy_Hashikma_Marketing" title="Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing">Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing</a></li>
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<li><a href="Perion_Network" title="Perion Network">Perion Network</a></li>
<li><a href="Perrigo" title="Perrigo"> Perrigo Company</a></li>
<li><a href="Plasson" title="Plasson">Plasson</a></li>
<li><a href="Strauss_Group" title="Strauss Group">Strauss Group</a></li>
<li><a href="Shufersal" title="Shufersal">Shufersal</a></li>
<li><a href="SodaStream" title="SodaStream">SodaStream</a></li>
<li><a href="Union_Bank_of_Israel" title="Union Bank of Israel">Union Bank of Israel</a></li>
<li><a href="Teva_Pharmaceuticals" title="Teva Pharmaceuticals">Teva Pharmaceuticals</a></li>
<li><a href="Tower_Semiconductor" title="Tower Semiconductor">Tower Semiconductor</a></li></ul>
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