Author: David Rutman

El Al is canceling Saturday night flights from London to Tel Aviv during the summer months in order to avoid starting check-in before Shabbat ends, N12 reported on Sunday. This will reportedly cancel 12 flights that leave London for Tel Aviv every Saturday night in the summer. N12 also reported that the change was initiated […]

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved the first step of a plan to build electricity storage facilities that, among other purposes, will provide a solution for some haredi citizens who prohibit the use of energy that was produced on Shabbat, the Energy Ministry said in a statement. The storage facilities will also serve as an energy […]

The luxury apartments on the Port TLV Residence project retain their value even in the current period of a slowdown in the real estate market. Hagag doesn’t lower prices – the penthouse in the project is offered at a price of NIS 180 thousand per meter. Israel’s priciest penthouse, going for a price of 128 […]

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf (UTJ) intends to approve a plan to purchase land in installments.  The intention is that the Israel Land Authority will market land to contractors, and they will transfer the cost of part of the land component to the benefit of buyers which will make it easier for them to […]

Google is planning to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents. The move comes as artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as ChatGPT are rapidly gaining in popularity, highlighting a technology that could upend the way […]

Artificial intelligence could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers of AI,” recently announced he had quit AlphabetGOOGL.O after a decade at the firm, saying he wanted to speak out on the […]

Recently, Israel commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s important to note the current role of tech which helps perpetuate the memories of the survivors and pass on their crucial messages to future generations. Over the years, most testimonies of Holocaust survivors have been preserved in outdated formats like video and recordings which can’t be accessed by […]

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country’s counter-terror authorities show. Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) […]

SodaStream, the Israeli-based company that manufactures home carbonation devices, has announced that it will be laying off 70-80 employees, which accounts for approximately 3% of its total workforce. The decision is the third wave of layoffs for the company in the past 18 months, with 300 employees losing their jobs in October 2021 and another […]

A rare first-of-its-kind collaboration took place between the Israeli IL MAKIAGE makeup brand and the British Arsenal women’s soccer team, managing to grab the attention of the audience, with the brand’s logo appearing on the team’s uniforms and in the stadiums. The multi-year agreement is designed to promote collaborative efforts between the brands and to […]