Microsoft said on Friday that a Russian state-sponsored group hacked into its corporate systems on January 12 and stole some emails and documents from staff accounts. The Russian group was able to access “a very small percentage” of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of its senior leadership team and employees in its cybersecurity, legal, […]
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An Israeli-American businessman was arrested for his involvement in a scheme to illegally export sensitive US tech to Russia, before and during its war on Ukraine, the US Department of Justice said in a Thursday statement. Ilya Kahn, 66, was arrested on Wednesday for his suspected role in a years-long plot to transfer thousands of […]
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Weeks of attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi militants on vessels in the Red Sea have disrupted shipping in the Suez Canal, the fastest sea route between Asia and Europe carrying 12% of global container traffic. For the European economy, already skirting a mild recession as it tries to shake off high inflation, prolonged disruption would be […]
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Dr. Michael Mirilashvili, President and owner of Israeli company Watergen Ltd., was chosen by the business magazine CIO Today as one of the top five innovative business leaders to watch in 2024. Watergen’s patented technology creates mineralized quality drinking water from the air, and its solutions are an effective and economical way to solve the […]
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An American-Israeli immunomics company has announced another success in supporting a major pharmaceutical company in moving its drugs from the lab to clinical approval, The Jerusalem Post has learned. “With our partners, we have succeeded in meeting agreed-upon deliverables,” said Noam Solomon, CEO of Immunai. “In the past two years, we have had a handful […]
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Due to the growing global demand for proteins and the importance of producing products not coming from animals as alternative food sources, the Health Ministry in Jerusalem is the first in the world to approve a “new food” of cultured meat originating from beef-cell cultures. As part of a pilot program for the examination of […]
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Upon the release of the Startup Nation Central annual report on the Israeli tech sector, The Media Line spoke to its CEO Avi Hasson, who shared his insights and lessons learned from 2023 and his expectations for 2024. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org The Media Line: The report you just […]
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In a move aimed at enhancing Israel’s global position as a hi-tech hub, the Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA), in collaboration with the Finance Ministry, has approved a comprehensive stimulus package designed to uplift the nation’s hi-tech ecosystem. The plans have been carefully crafted in response to both global and local factors that characterized 2023, such […]
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According to a CBS report released Monday, in the month of December 2023 the Consumer Price Index (CPI) experienced a modest decline of 0.1%, compared to November 2023, reaching a level of 105.0 points. Both the CPI excluding vegetables and fruits and the CPI excluding energy also decreased by 0.1%, reaching levels of 104.8 and […]
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At least six further oil tankers have either diverted their course away from, or paused before entering the southern Red Sea since the weekend, ship tracking data from LSEG and Kpler show. That takes the total number of shipping disruptions counted by Reuters to at least fifteen in total since the US-led strikes on Houthi […]
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