Author: David Leibermann

Snap Inc., the company behind social media giant Snapchat, is just the latest in a long line of top-tier firms forced to make cutbacks and fire employees due to the continuing worldwide financial crisis. The company is letting go of about 20% of its total workforce, including 30 people at its research and development center […]

Prime Minister Yair Lapid/ GPO by Edmund Owen It is not usual for the prime minister of Israel to speak directly to the Palestinian people, but Yair Lapid did exactly that on Monday evening, August 8.  With Operation Breaking Dawn well and truly concluded, thanks to the sterling efforts of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingTheranica Raises $45 Million For Migraine TreatmentTheranica, an Israeli medtech startup and prescribed digital therapeutics company that is developing advanced neuromodulation devices for migraine and other idiopathic pain conditions brought in $45 million in a Series C funding round. Founded in 2016, Theranica says that it […]

Norwich remains- Professor Caroline Wilkinson DNA testing has confirmed that at least some of the 17 1,000-year-old skeletons uncovered in Norwich, England, do in fact belong to Ashkenazi Jews. It was also determined that the person whose remains were discovered was murdered in an anti-Semitic hate crime. This was revealed by scientists from the Natural […]

Deliverider Deliverider, an Israeli startup offering a technology-enabled logistics platform that provides a smart “middle mile” consolidation solutions for retailers, raised $2 million in seed funding. Founded in 2021 by CEO Ido Raz and CTO Elad Kantor, Deliverider provides a technology-enabled logistics service for grocery retailers working online, enabling them to sell low-cost-non-inventory items, in […]

Theranica’s Nerivio – Linkedin Theranica, an Israeli medtech startup and prescribed digital therapeutics company that is developing advanced neuromodulation devices for migraine and other idiopathic pain conditions brought in $45 million in a Series C funding round. Founded in 2016, Theranica says that it brings electrical neuromodulation therapy to a new level. The International Neuromodulation […]

Otonomo Team (company pic) Otonomo Technologies Ltd., an Israeli mobility intelligence company, is the latest Israel Startup Nation firm to make cutbacks in its workforce and is even in danger of being dropped from the NASDAQ as a publicly traded company. The company, which only went public on the NASDAQ a little over a year […]

Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman, in July 2022 / photo credit JORDANIAN ROYAL PALACE REUTERS by Neville Teller             As Israel’s foreign minister, Yair Lapid was generally accounted a notable success.  Proactive by temperament, he seemed tireless in his efforts to improve Israel’s standing on the world stage.  He […]

Magic Mushrooms are a popular psychedelic “party drug” that are illegal basically everywhere. But recent studies have shown that hallucinogens like “Magic Mushrooms” offer numerous benefits for the treatment of a variety of psychological issues such as PTSD. And now, researchers from NYU have found that psilocybin – the psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms” […]

EastMed pipeline canceled by Biden administration Tamar rig / by Ilan Nissim / Energy Ministry Revenues from Israel’s natural gas fields jumped by almost 50% in the first half of 2022. Israel has several natural gas fields off its coast in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, like the Tamar and Leviathan, that were discovered in recent […]