Author: David Rutman

The second highest-valued startup according to CB Insights is also from China – ride-hailing service Didi valued at US$56 billion. U.S companies now make up only 40 percent of the top 10, down from 60 percent a year ago when Juul Labs and WeWork still made the top 10. The remaining four U.S. startups, Stripe, Airbnb, Space […]

Trump sends 1,600 troops to the capital: “They are on alert.” Poll: 64% of Americans support the protest, 55% dissatisfied with the president Credit: screen shot from Walla.co.il Demonstrators continued to march in cities across the U.S. more than a week after the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police […]

In Israel Children Design Their Own ‘Cool Bionic Hand’, And Get It For Free The Technion is working on this project with Haifa 3D, which had been working with the E-Nable online community to offer prosthetic limbs, for free Students at the Technion, from the faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science are […]

Iran tried to poison Israel’s water by increasing chlorine in water, Report  ESHKOL reservoir and national water carrier Iran intended to poison Israel’s water by increasing the amount of chlorine into the system during a thwarted cyberattack in April, according to a report at the Financial Times on Monday, citing sources in Israel and abroad. […]

Despite the economic shocks reverberating throughout the world as a consequence of coronavirus, S&P affirmed its rating for Israel at AA- and its outlook at ‘stable.’- in line with Fitch and Moody’s By Israel Maimon Ambassador Abba Eban, in reflecting back on Israel’s early, post-independence years, observed, “Israel’s economic situation in 1950 and 1951 was […]

With a simple component, algorithms, and dashboard, BeeHero help beekeepers maintain hives and increase bees’ production by 30% The honey bee is the major pollinator in nature and its impact on our lives and the food we eat is so significant that it is responsible for about a third of all the food we consume. […]

“The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news.” -Bertolt Brecht Any explicit comparisons of the Trump presidency with the Third Reich will elicit multiple cries of horror and execration across the United States, even when it had first been admitted that this American administration is similarly misleading and existentially dangerous. Nonetheless, to be […]

Wuhan Wet Market Is Not The source of Coronavirus But Was ‘Super-Spreader Site’ Experts still don’t know where the coronavirus came from. It now turns out that the seafood market in Wuhan is one of the victims rather than the source of the virus Experts still don’t know where the coronavirus (COVID-19) came from. It […]

Trump Signed Executive Order to Hunt Twitter; Twitter Adds Another Warning to The President’s Tweet Experts say Trump’s order aimed at Twitter and other tech giants could prove toothless and face a legal challenge President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order targeting Twitter but included other social media giants after Twitter called two […]