Author: David Leibermann

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 […]

R-L Sharon Fima, CEO at MeaTech, Omri Schanin, Co-Founder and Deputy CEO at MeaTech/Steakholder Steakholdercredit- Shlomi Arbiv Steakholder Foods Ltd., an Israeli foodtech startup developing a suite of advanced manufacturing technologies to produce cultured meat products and formerly known as MeaTech 3D, has filed a provisional patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office […]

On June 25, 2012. then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman greets Russian President Vladimir Putin at Ben Gurion Airport (Kobi Gideon GPO) By Mordechai Tzivin  Until now, Russian media has not attacked the Jews fleeing the threat of recruitment. So why the repeated announcements made in recent days by Minister Yvette Lieberman is so essential? Lieberman said […]