Author: David Leibermann

Plantish’s First Printed Salmon fillet / Photo credit Asaf Karela Little has been released until now since Israeli foodtech startup Planfish was founded in March 2021. Today, the company introduces the first printing plant-based salmon that replicates the sea fish fillet. The product, which is protected by a patent-pending manufacturing process, is made from legume […]

Shield team: Company photo by Eric Sultan Israeli startup Shield, which uses an artificial intelligence AI based platform for aiding compliance teams, has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Macquarie Capital and OurCrowd with significant participation from Mindset Ventures. This makes Shield the fifth Israeli startup that works with artificial intelligence […]

Simon Cowell AGT YouTube Simon Cowell is getting married. The 62 year old music producer and reality television personality is set to marry his longtime love Lauren Silverman. Cowell has been dating the 44 year old Lauren Silverman, who is described as a socialite, for 13 years now. The couple shares a seven year old […]

TempraMed Israel The Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation approved $8 million in funding for nine new projects between U.S. and Israeli companies. In addition to the grants from BIRD, the projects will access private sector funding, boosting the total value of all projects to $22 million. The […]

Investments from Japan in Israeli firms hit a record $2.9 billion in 2021. This was also a record leap from the previous year. The increase in investment from 2020 was 190%, but this is obviously due to the Covid shutdowns of 2020. The information comes from a study that was compiled by Harel-Hertz Investments House. […]

ISIS in Sinai by Neville Teller    On December 14 two Typhoon fighter aircraft of the UK’s Royal Air Force were patrolling over Syria and Iraq, when they noticed an unidentified drone flying towards allied troops on the ground at the al-Tanf coalition base, in Syria.  Deeming the drone a threat, the RAF conducted its […]

Global-e co-founders (L-R) Nir Debbi. Amir Schlachet, and Shahar Tamari Photo Courtesy Global-e Online, an Israeli e-commerce firm, has completed its acquisition of the American company Flow Commerce Inc. for a total of $500 million. The deal, which was first begun last November, will see the New Jersey based e-commerce company get absorbed by Global-e […]

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 […]