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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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EQUITY (Additional Stock-Based Compensation Data) (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	1 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	May. 31, 2015	Jul. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2015
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares granted, vesting period			4 years
Maximum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares granted, vesting period			4 years
Minimum [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Shares granted, vesting period			2 years
Employee [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized share-based compensation expense, employees			$ 1,419
Compensation costs weighted average period to be recognized			1 year 2 months 23 days
Non-Employee [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized share-based compensation expense, employees			$ 0
Chairman of the Board of Directors [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted	150,000	250,000
Price per share	$ 6.72	$ 5.06
Shares granted, vesting period	4 years