Author: David Leibermann

Photo by Ttowfiqu Barbhuiya/ Unsplash by Contributing Author When you are keeping kosher and have food allergies, eating out or at someone’s house could be difficult. There are many different foods that cause allergies, and the rules of keeping kosher can prevent Jewish people from eating specific foods. If you like all kinds of cuisines, […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingMedtronic Signs $585 Million Deal With Israel’s CathWorksCathWorks, an Israeli medtech firm that offers a non-invasive diagnostic alternative to catheters, has entered into a deal with the international healthcare technology company Medtronic in which Medtronic will invest up to $75 million and immediately begin […]

Joe Biden and Yair Lapid Signing Historic Jerusalem Declaration (Photo by Ben Gershom GPO) The leaders of the United States and Israel, President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid, signed a historic agreement on Thursday which reaffirms the “unbreakable” bonds between the two countries and the “enduring commitment of the United States to Israel’s […]

Seth Rogen and James Franco in The Interview Disgraced actor and director James Franco is set to try and make a comeback of sorts. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Franco will appear in Bille August’s new post-WWII drama “Me, You.” Based on the novel Tu, Mia by Erri De Luca, the movie will take […]

Elderly at-risk people who received a fourth dose of the Pfizer vaccine are 34 percent less likely to become infected with the Omicron variant, and 64 to 67 percent less likely to require hospitalization due to COVID-19. They are also more than 70% less likely to die from the Coronavirus, according to a new study […]

Ben Gurion Airport terminal 3 reception Arrivals hall Israel’s tourism industry set a major milestone as the country welcomed its one millionth tourist since the final end of its Covid related closures. Israel formally reopened for business – the tourism business – about four months ago after repeatedly barring foreign tourists from entering due to […]

New Startups / VC FundingIsrael’s Aurora Labs Raises $63 Million For New Car TechAurora Labs, an Israeli startup that develops remote software management, remote diagnostics, and over-the-air (OTA) updates for the automotive and IoT industries, secured $63 million through a Series C financing round led by Moore Strategic Ventures (“MSV”). This round brings the total […]

L-R Turkish President Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin by Neville Teller    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, no less than fourteen of its one-time satellite states in eastern Europe have joined NATO.  Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has watched the NATO boundary advance inexorably toward his western border with increasing concern.  In […]

Israeli startup LittleOne.Care is developing an artificial intelligence product that continuously monitors infants’ actions so that emergencies and developmental failures can be identified in advance and diagnosis and treatment can be offered at early and critical stages. The monitoring is done using a small device attached to the newborn baby’s clothing. It has no radiation, […]

Spiritt/ by Olga Pedchuk Israeli startup SPIRITT, which enables the development of complex applications by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, announces a $ 5.5 million seed fundraiser. The round was led by the Disruptive AI Foundation, which specializes in artificial intelligence-based startups. Silicon Valley Bank joined the round. […]