Author: David Rutman

Israel High Tech Scene Week In Review Apr 24 – May 1 Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingVESSL Therapeutics Is A Medtech Startup Offering New Cardiovascular TreatmentsThe company just raised $16 million. Israeli medtech startup VESSL Therapeutics develops new treatments for a wide range of blood-vessel-related disorders. AirEye Cybersecurity Startup Offers […]

Eclipse Ventures Has New $500 Million Fund This brings Eclipse’s total assets under management to almost $2 billion. Eclipse Ventures founder Lior Susan (company pic) Eclipse Ventures has opened Eclipse Fund IV, a $500 million venture capital fund twitch it says will continue early-stage investing in the digital transformation of its essential industries. This includes […]

5,000 Israeli Government Workers Victimized by Hackers Israel came in 24th worldwide. Israeli government employees were not immune to a massive hacking campaign conducted by the Brazilian network security company Syhunt. The hack was committed by COMB21, which Syhunt says was behind the biggest known compilation of password leaks ever publicly published. This occurred on […]

Suspected $1.5 Million Embezzlement at eToro Under Investigation eToro is looking to a $10 billion IPO. Yoni Assia, co-founder and CEO, eToro — Doron Letzter eToro A new cloud hangs over eToro just as the Israeli form looks towards its initial public offering, which the company hopes will bring it a $10 billion valuation. Israeli […]

Billionaire Ron Perelman Selling Manhattan Mansion for $60 Million Its a red brick mansion. 36 East 63rd Street Ron Perelman House Zillow Ron Perelman, the American billionaire investor who owns Revlon, is selling his Manhattan townhouse. The Neo-Georgian, limestone-and-red-brick mansion located at 36 East 63rd Street can be yours for just $60 million. Perelman reportedly […]

Netflix Series Hit and Run Stars Israeli Lior Raz from Fauda Netflix has released a new trailer. Lior Raz in Netflix Hit and Run Israeli actor Lior Raz is in a new series from Netflix called “Hit and Run.” Raz is most famous for playing Israeli undercover anti-terrorist agent Doron Kavillio on the international hit […]

Time to call a spade a spade Armenian Genocide victims in 1915 by Neville Teller             More than two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman empire in 1914, on the eve of World War I.  By 1922, there were fewer than 400,000. The others – some 1.5 million – had been killed.  Most historians describe […]

Israel Fintech Startup Nayax Looking At $1 Billion Valuation With TASE IPO Nayax joins a number of other Israeli fintech success stories. From Nayax Website Nayax Ltd., an Israeli Fintech startup, has commenced a global initial public offering of its ordinary shares to institutional investors. Nayax proposes to sell up to 44,000,000 of its ordinary […]

Steven Spielberg’s New Film Foundation Jewish Story Partners Supports New Jewish Themed Movies JSP just announced its first projects. JSP Grantees Announcement Steven Spielberg is one of the main backers behind Jewish Story Partners (JSP), a new Los Angeles-based film foundation which launched with an ambitious vision and its first round of grantees. Jewish Story […]

American Nuclear Strategy: Challenge of Mind, not Politics By Louis René Beres, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Purdue University In human history, the highest achievements of war preparedness and war avoidance can be found in triumphs of intellect, or victories of mind over mind. Today, in an unstable world of growing military nuclearization, major world powers will […]