Author: David Rutman

Top 5 Israeli Movies To Watch Over Independence Day Weekend You don’t have to be Israeli to enjoy these films. Haim Topol in Sallah Shabati Israel celebrates its independence this weekend. This year Israel Independence day, the fifth of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar, fell out on a Friday. So as not to interfere with […]

Oculus Quest 2 Now Offers Wireless Hookup But some app developers are angry with Facebook. Oculus Quest You can now get Oculus Air Link, a wireless way to play PC VR games on Oculus Quest 2. The company is also offering Quest Demos, a new series of interactive presentations and Q&A sessions open to the […]

Facebook Admits There Really Is a Place Called Bitche Ville de Bitche France had its Facebook page removed accidentally. Ville de Bitche Wikipedia Ville de Bitche is a French town which really does exist. Unfortunately for it, Facebook did not believe that it actually did exist. So it censored the town’s Facebook page. Now the […]

Hank Azaria Apologizes To All Indians Over Simpsons Apu He voiced the character for more than 30 years. Hank Azaria on Brockmire Hank Azaria is on an apology tour these days. The actor feels that he needs to make amends to every one of the more than a billion Indians in the world for his […]

Spotify Offers Limited Release of Its new Car Thing This is Spotify’s first hardware device. Spotify Car Thing Spotify is now getting into the gadget – hardware – business. It has released its first device called “Car Thing.” Spotify’s Car Thing is a voice activated smart player for your car. Diversification is the life blood […]

Russia’s Perekrestok Supermarkets to Use Israel’s Evigence Sensors for Freshness Monitoring Labels 10 Million “Green Dot” labels will be used in the stores. Evigence Sensors Israel’s Evigence Sensors’ tech will be used by Russia’s Perekrestok supermarket chain to implement the large-scale use of the Green Dot labelling system for monitoring product freshness. Ten million labels […]

Israeli Startup DoControl Offers Automated SaaS Security Solutions The company just raised $10 million. The DoControl founders: CEO Adam Gavish, CTO Liel Ran and CRO Omri Weinberg (Company Photo Orly Eyal) DoControl is an Israeli cybersecurity startup which offers a fully automated SaaS (software as a service) security platform, which it states provides data access […]

IAI To Provide Sea Serpent Missiles to UK’s Royal Navy It will work with UK firm Thales. IAI SEA SERPENT Missile Firing Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will offer SEA SERPENT missiles to the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigates. This is an anti-ship and anti-surface missile that can “match and overmatch a rapidly expanding range and […]

Israeli Chipmaker Valens Expects $1 Billion IPO It will do so through an SPAC. Valens is an Israeli provider of semiconductor products. Valens expects to hit a $1.2 billion valuation when it goes public. This according to a report in Calcalist. This is now the 14th Startup Nation company to declare its expectation for a […]

Memic Innovative Surgery Specializes in Robot Assisted Surgery Tech The company just raised $96 million. Memic Hominis System Israeli medtech startup Memic Innovative Surgery is a medical device company which develops new technology for robot-assisted surgery. The company just closed a $96 million Series D round of financing. The financing round was led by Peregrine […]