Author: David Rutman

By Contributing Author Unlike Samsung, the leading smartphone manufacturer in the world today that floods the market with a wide range of handsets, Apple likes to keep its phone lineup simple. The Cupertino giant has two smartphone launch events in a year at most, and its lineup of handsets slim compared to its Android-powered competitors. […]

Meatech is the third Israeli startups to entrant the global race to create lab-grown meat. Its first product is expected to hit restaurants as early as next year Meatech CEO Sharon Fima (Photo Meatech) The world is inching ever closer to making cultured meat – a lab product based on animal cells – a staple […]

The program will provide a state guarantee for equity portfolios invested in high-tech companies with advanced-stage funding. Israel approved today a plan to provide state guarantee for equity invested by institutional investors in high-tech companies in late-stage funding rounds. The program is a central element of a broader financial plan to help the business sector […]

Intelligence agency’s internal report, obtained by Ynet, counts over 80 million face masks, nearly 30 tons of disinfectants and over 10,000 ventilators, some obtained from nations that have no diplomatic ties with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (Photo GPO) The Mossad intelligence agency obtained hundreds of millions of protective gear […]

U.S. Pressure Works: China loses bid to run Israel’s biggest desalination plant Two weeks after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo exited lockdown in the height of the coronavirus pandemic, for a quick visit to Jerusalem,  to voice his concerns to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about China’s potential involvement in Israel’s main desalination plant, China […]

Even after flights restart, the number of departures will be limited; In order to revive the industry, Israel outline also health measures and a pact with states that have low COVID-19 spread Israel will resume commercial flight by mid-July at the earliest due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the chief of contry’s bigggest airport said […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the corruption charges against him as “slanderous and delusional” as he entered the Jerusalem courtoom on Sunday, to hear the arraignment against him. Netanyahu along with his entourage arrived at the Jerusalem District Court close to 2:30 pm, after his request to have his lawyers represent him instead was rejected. […]

Netanyahu insisted on his innocence and will now have the opportunity, like every citizen of the country, to prove it.   On the defendants’ bench, in Hall 317, the courtroom of the Jerusalem District Court, where former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert heard the judges convicted him on corruption charges, on Sunday, afternoon, will sit on the […]

The last full-scale underground test of a nuclear weapon was conducted at the Nevada Test Site in September 1992. (Los Alamos National Laboratory) In meeting in the White House on May 15 President Donald Trump’s administration with senior officials representing the top national security agencies has discussed holding the first US nuclear test since 1992 […]

The car-rental and leasing company Hertz, based in Estero, Florida, filed for bankruptcy late Friday, after coronavirus pandemic stoped travel and the global economic collapse in pandemic destroyed demand for its vehicles. The second-largest U.S car-rental-company founded in 1918, will keep operating until it devises a plan to pay creditors and turn around the business. The […]