Author: David Leibermann

Russia is taking punitive measures in retaliation for the European Union’s continued efforts to sanction that country for its invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s gas company Gazprom on Wednesday announced an abrupt halt to natural gas sales to two EU member states Poland and Bulgaria. The move sent natural gas prices skyrocketing by more than 20%. […]

Catalonia Spain by Mathias PR Reding / Unsplash by Contributing Author Catalonia is one of the seventeen autonomous regions of Spain. It borders the Mediterranean on one side and the Pyrenees on the other. There are also many museums in Catalonia: artists Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and architect Antonio Gaudi lived here. There are so […]

LumiWeave provides shade by day and illumination charged only by the sun. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv Global & Tourism The municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffo, the city which experiences an extreme summer climate, has started a pilot with Israeli startup Lumiweave, the developer of a revolutionary clean energy system in the shape of an umbrella, […]

The Hickson Compact Group 40 before they merge The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 32nd birthday with a magnificent view of the Hickson Compact Group 40, an extraordinary close-knit grouping of five galaxies. This photo captures a special moment in their lives as they collide before merging. The group has three spiral galaxies, an […]

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, at al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2019. [State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha] by Neville Teller Israel and Saudi Arabia have no diplomatic relations with each other – a situation that normally means hostility between nations. Yet on March 3, 2022, Saudi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]

China’s currency, Yuan According to Bloomberg, for the first time ever the Bank of Israel has decided to add holdings of the Chinese yuan. In the most significant change to its reserve allocation in over a decade, the bank will decrease its holdings of dollars, euros, and the British pound. Israel’s central bank is looking to diversify […]

Dr. Doron Myersdorf StoreDot’s CEO Volvo Cars, the carmaker’s venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in StoreDot, the Israeli startup which has developed 5-minute charging technology for electric vehicles. StoreDot to begin mass production of its ‘100in5’, silicon dominant lithium-ion cells delivering 100 miles of range in five minutes of charging by 2024. The […]

Success In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Israeli startup Fairtility, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) powering in vitro fertilization (IVF) aims to improve increased precision in embryo quality and enhanced IVF success rates. Today, the IVF success rate is less than 30% per cycle. Assessment of embryo morphology under a microscope revealed a low predictive value for implantation, […]

New Startups / VC Funding BloXroute Raises $70 Million For BlockchainbloXroute, an Israeli startup that developed a blockchain distribution network (BDN) that helps DeFi traders on Ethereum, Polygon, and BSC, has completed a $70 million Series B funding, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. According to Investopedia, Decentralized finance (DeFi) is defined as an emerging […]

by Neville Teller The two-month truce between the combatants in the Yemen civil war, brokered by the UN on April 2, has been swiftly followed by dramatic action calculated to bring about a more permanent end to the hostilities, and even the start of a reconstruction program.  On Thursday, April 7 Yemen’s ineffective, unpopular and […]