Author: David Leibermann

Tamir Pardo (Wikipedia) NanoLock Security, an Israeli cyber security firm offering flash-to-cloud protection for IoT and connected edge devices, has brought in former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo as a member of its Advisory Board. In his new role, Tamir Pardo will advise company CEO Eran Fine and the company’s senior management on technological and commercial […]

Pay to Travel EU countries Beginning in May 2023, visa-exempt passengers will be required to apply for the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) at the cost of €7/$7.50 to enter any of the 26 European countries included in the program.  The European Commission has reaffirmed that ETIAS will apply to the EU Member […]

Chelsea FC sold. Roman Abramovich. Photo by Marina Lystseva, Wikipedia Chelsea FC confirmed to reports that the new ownership consortium chaired by Todd Boehly, co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise, would purchase the football club in a deal valued around £4.25 billion. Californian private equity company Clearlake Capital would control the majority of […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC Funding Hello Heart Raises $70 Million For Heart Attack Prevention TechHello Heart, an Israeli medtech startup offering a digital program that helps users to understand and improve their heart health, has raised $70 million in Series D financing. The news comes one year after Hello Heart […]

Teddy Bear Hospital. photo by National Cancer Institute/ Unsplash Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine Complex in Safed transforms into ‘Teddy Bear Hospital,’ to help toddlers and preschool children to undergo hospitalization. Children are invited to bring their teddy bears and dolls to be checked by medical students and staff during the popular annual community […]

The FDA unveiled a plan on Thursday to prohibit the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes in the United States, a move praised by many public health experts as the government’s most significant action in more than a decade of tobacco control efforts. According to the New York Times, menthol cigarettes account for over a third of […]

L-R Omri Casspi and David Citron, Sheva VC/ Photo courtesy Omri Casspi, who spent almost a decade in the NBA and was Israel’s national basketball team’s captain, is launching “Sheva,” a new venture capital fund dedicated to investing in early-stage startups. The fund was co-founded by David Citron, an early-stage venture capital investor. David was […]

by Contributing Author You might be aware of the recent hype about collagen powder or supplements. Due to its impressive benefits, collagen powder is being used widely. Collagen is a protein that is found in a number of parts of our body. The cartilage between the bones is one of those parts. It is basically […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingFundGuard Raises $40 Million For Investment ManagementFundGuard, an Israeli fintech startup that offers an AI-powered SaaS investment management and asset servicing enterprise platform, closed a $40 million Series B funding round from investors that included Citi and State Street Corp. Fintech is one of the hottest […]

On the occasion of Holocaust Heroes and Remembrance Day in Israel, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released the statistics on the number of Holocaust survivors in Israel. It also released the breakdown and total numbers of world Jewry. There were 165,000 people recognized as Holocaust survivors living in Israel at the end of […]