Author: David Leibermann

A desert region – The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at Hebrew University A new project, led by Dr. Assaf Hochman at the Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), in collaboration with Dr. Paolo De Luca at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Dr. […]

Iran’s Generation Z Protests, 2022/ Photo credit Taymaz Valley / Flicker by Neville Teller             The Washington-based Pew Research Center, founded in 1996, has made its name by investigating the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.  Part of its early work involved studying the last generational cohort before the millennium.  It named them the […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingOSSIO Raises $38.5 Million For New Orthopedic Med TechOssio, an Israeli medtech startup that develops orthopedic fixation technology announced today that it closed a $38.5 million Series C financing round led by Growth equity firm MVM Partners. In other good news for Ossio, the company its […]

Giphy (website pic) The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, sell its Giphy subsidiary due to antitrust concerns. Meta said that it disagrees with the ruling, but will comply with it. Facebook has been under scrutiny over monopolistic practices for some time as it also owns […]

Mobileye AV in New York City Trial (Company Pic) Mobileye, the Israeli company that develops autonomous driving and driver-assist technologies and is owned by Intel, has once again been forced to lower its valuation expectations for the company’s upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO). The expected valuation has now dropped down to just $16 billion, from […]

Envy the dead / Photo by Johannes Plenio/ Pexels by Louis Rene Beres “Defenseless under the night, our world in stupor lies….” — W H Auden Background of the Current Nuclear War Threat Please help us out : Will you offer us a hand? Every gift, regardless of size, fuels our future. Your critical contribution […]

Unphilosophical spirit Prof. Louis Rene Beres “The enemy is the unphilosophical spirit which knows nothing and wants to know nothing of truth.“- Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1971) For the most part, Americans loath mind-challenging excursions into philosophy. At times, certain other forms of intellectual activity are judged more-or-less tolerable, but only to the […]

Anthony Martini of Exceed (company pic) Exceed, an Israeli fintech startup that has developed a marketplace that it says allows both fans and retail investors to participate in the success of top talent, raised $8 million in a Seed funding round led by private investment firm BRM Group The startup says that its goal is […]

Enhanced Night Vision Goggle – Binocular (ENVG-B) Elbit Systems of America Elbit Systems of America LLC, a subsidiary of the Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems, was awarded an order valued at approximately $107 million for the supply of Enhanced Night Vision Goggle – Binocular (ENVG-B) systems, spare parts, logistics support, and test equipment, for the […]