Author: David Leibermann

Hubble Views a Galaxy With an Explosive Past NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Centaurus around 57 million light-years from the Milky Way. In 2014, light from a supernova explosion in NGC 3568 reached Earth – a brief burst of light triggered […]

Israeli biopharmaceutical company, SpliSense, announced that the US Food and Medicine Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency have designated the cystic fibrosis treatment technology as an “orphan drug” (EMA). The FDA and EMA designate medicines and biologic technologies as orphan drugs when they are intended to treat rare diseases. “The orphan designations we received […]

Israeli startups raised $2.1 billion in December 2021, including a record $3 billion in October. The sum may be higher, as some companies prefer to operate in secrecy and do not always announce the funding they receive. According to IVC-Meitar, Israeli technology startups raised $17.8 billion in the first nine months of 2021. The results […]

Will Iran acquire a nuclear weapon? The 40th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., prepares to release a GBU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator bomb for the first time, Oct. 7, 2021. (Samuel KingU.S. Air Force) by Neville Teller Much of the world is growing increasingly impatient as Iran plays for time on the […]

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651 By Prof. Louis Rene Beres “So the nature of war consists not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.”- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651 The “time” to which the seventeenth century English philosopher refersis that calculable interval spent in […]

Israel Independence Day (Wikipedia) On 31 December 2021, Israel’s population is estimated at 9.449 million residents. This is an increase of about 300,000 since the end of last year. Of these, 6.982 million, or 74 percent of the population, are Jewish. About 1.99 million, or 21 percent of the population, are Arab and 472,000, roughly […]

SodaStream Daniel Birnbaum / Facebook Daniel Birnbaum, the former CEO of SodaStream, and Ayala Cohen, a company employee, were indicted today in the Tel Aviv District Court (Economics) on charges of insider trading and perverting the course of justice, two years after the subject first came to light. The matter was initially reported by “Globes,” […]

Omnistream Facebook pic Omnistream is an Israeli startup that says it will make broadcasts – streaming – of videos from mobile devices much more efficient and have greater quality. Everybody watches all manner of videos on their smartphones and tablets that are available to stream, but have you ever thought about when you send out […]

Mark Malyar Wins Gold (screen capture) There were plenty of big Jews in sports stories this past year. How to choose just 5 of them? Well, we could have given you stories about the mercurial owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban. But we write about him all of the time. Instead, we decided to […]

Orca Security founders Avi Shua and Gil Geron (PR Pic) SentinelOne, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, has been planning on taking over fellow Israeli cybersecurity company Orca Security for some time now, at a reported price of $2.5 billion. But now Calcalist is reporting that there may be some problems with the SentinelOne takeover bid that […]