Author: David Rutman

Team8 Fintech’s leadership team. Left to right: Yuval Tal, Rakefet Russak Aminoach, Galia Beer-Gabel and Ronen Assia Team8, an Israeli investment firm in the realm of cyber security, has established Team8 Fintech, a practice focused on founding and scaling transformative fintech companies. The firm says that it has raised $100 million for the venture. Fintech […]

Hetz-Ventures Team From Website Israeli Venture Capital firm Hetz Ventures has closed its second flagship fund at $77 million. The company says that the fund was actually oversubscribed. With it, Hetz will manage over $130Million in capital. So an Israeli VC firm is still able to raise millions from investors to seed new Israeli high […]

Its official! Steve Cohen, a billionaire investor, has finalized his purcahse of the New York Mets. Baseball fans everywhere rejoice at the news that Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez will not be owning a Major League Baseball team. New York Mets fans have been praying for Fred Wilpon to sell the team for years. He […]

Oracle beat out Microsoft for control of Tik Tok’s American operations. The video company was looking for an American partner because the Trump Administration was going to block its operations in the U.S. Due to its Chinese ownership. The President cited national security concerns in that he thinks that Tik Tok could somehow be used […]

Carl_Sagan,_1994 Wikipedia Heard about the discovery of life on Venus? Well it turns out that Carl Sagan predicted that we would someday discover life there. They say that some kind of gas has been discovered in Venus’ atmosphere. Well apparently this type of gas can only be produced by a living organism of some kind […]

Without any real or compelling reasons, voting Americans freely abandoned the once-residual elements of Jeffersonian good citizenship. “The specialist ‘knows’ very well his own tiny corner of the universe; he is radically ignorant of all the rest.”-Jose Ortega y’ Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) It has been almost one hundred years since Spanish philosopher Jose […]

CNET Media Groups will be sold to Red Ventures by ViacomCBS for $500 million. Shari Redstone currently serves as chairman of ViacomCBS. CBS acquired CNET in 2008 for $1.8 billion. So this means a pretty big loss for the company. After a period as separate companies, Viacom and CBS were “remarried” in 2019. Ever since, […]

Shira Haas in Shtisel — Yes Promo Pic Shtisel, the hit Israeli drama about a Hasidic family of that name, is coming back for a third season. You can see an exclusive clip from the new season in Variety. Michael Aloni, Doval’e Glickman, Neta Riskin, Sasson Gabai and Shira Haas will be back as the […]

“The first wave of the COVID-19 has almost no health consequences, but the second wave of the coronavirus threatens to destroy its health system.” Israel becomes the first developed country to impose second general closure for three weeks, starting this coming Friday, in order to deal with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The media […]

By Contributing Author For some people, they view their wealth as something that they can pass onto their family members upon their death. They spent years of hard work to ensure the financial future of their loved ones; as such, determining who will inherit their assets and as to what proportions is extremely important. However, […]