Author: David Rutman

Abbas and Biden – a workable partnership? by Neville Teller           Joe Biden knows as much about the background to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as anyone, and more than most.  Over the eight years 2008–2016 that the Obama-Biden team headed the US administration, there were two major efforts to restart the Israeli-Palestinian […]

Google Balloon Goes Bust The idea was to bring high-speed internet access to the more remote parts of the world through the use of balloons Google Loon Internet Balloon (promo pic) Google parent company Alphabet is shuttering its Loon internet balloon company. The news comes as Google threatens to pull out of Australia over copyright […]

77 Insights To Successful Penetration Of International Markets Based on the experience of 1000 Israeli exporters For many years, I’ve been on a professional journey to understand what “works and what doesn’t” when penetrating and driving growth in export markets. I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way, both as an in-house Marketing and […]

Proud Boys and QAnon Dump Trump Trump left taxpayers on the hook for millions in security protection for family members. Donald Trump has been abandoned by some of his biggest supporters: QAnon and Proud Boys people. They were visibly absent from inauguration day protests and have been somewhat silent about President Biden so far. And […]

President Biden Cleans House and Gets to Work Fighting Covid-19 Several Trump appointees were fired right away and a new Coronavirus Czar was appointed. President Joe Biden First Day In Office News Capture Within hours of his inauguration President Joe Biden got to work undoing as much as possible of his predecessor’s legacy. One of […]

Wall Street Celebrates Joe Biden Inauguration with Soaring Stock Markets The S&P 500 rose by 1.39%. In spite of the expectations of former President Trump’s supporters, Wall Street did not go into a panic after Joe Biden was elected President of the United States. Quite the contrary. The New York Stock Exchange celebrated with historic […]

Bob Dylan Sued Over Sale of His Song Catalogue Claudia Levy wants $7.25 million for songs her late husband co-wrote. Music legend Bob Dylan is being sued for royalties from his music catalog by Claudia Levy, widow of Jacques Levy, who co-wrote some of Bob Dylan’s songs. She is also suing Universal Music Group which […]

Benjamin de Rothschild – Banking Icon – Died at 57 The Rothschild family member suffered a heart attack. Benjamin de Rothschild, head of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, has died of a heart attack. He was 57 years old. Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $1.5 billion. Benjamin de Rothschild descended from James de […]

Joe Biden Is The 46th President of The United States “This is America’s day, this is democracy’s day.” Former Vice President Joe Biden has just become the 46th President of the United States of America. It became official at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. Interestingly, he took the oath of office twelve minutes before that […]

Breakthrough in Parkinson’s Disease: Israeli Scientists Discover New Therapeutics Ben-Gurion University Researchers are focusing on bringing their discovery closer to clinical application Scientists at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have discovered that a promising therapeutics protein called BMP5/7 could slow down or even halt the progression of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The findings were published […]