WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden called Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on being reelected Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu said the two would work to expand the Abraham Accords. “President Biden called me to congratulate me on my elections victory and said the U.S.-Israel alliance is as resilient as ever,’ Netanyahu said Monday in Hebrew […]
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(JTA) — As she walked along Tel Aviv’s long stretch of boardwalk Wednesday afternoon, the mounting returns making clear that Israel’s next government would be right-wing, Bridget Gottdank thought back to another time she cast a losing vote for a liberal candidate. “All day I’ve been thinking about 2016. When I found out [Donald Trump] […]
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(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid called his rival, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to concede this week’s election as most of the votes were counted by the end of Thursday. “The State of Israel is above any political consideration. I wish Netanyahu luck for the sake of the people of Israel and the […]
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Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingApiiro Raises $100 Millionapiiro, an Israeli startup that boasts that it is the industry’s first Code Risk Platform in the area of DevSecOps, raised $100 million in a Series B round of funding led by General Catalyst with participation by Greylock and Kleiner Perkins. […]
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Revuze (Facebook) Revuze, an Israeli startup that offers real-time consumer insights, raised $12 million growth investment led by PSG. Revuze has now raised a total of $24 million to date. Basically, Revuze offers a new kind of market research service, one that uses the latest tech. Just the term market research alone makes people yawn. […]
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a platform for volunteering: Vee co-founders (L-R), Gil Amsalemת May Piamenta, and Avi Amor. Photo Vee October was not a good month for Israel Startup Nation with several more companies contracting, laying off workers, and so on. This is all because of the current worldwide financial crisis sparked by the ongoing war in Ukraine. And […]
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Benjamin Netanyahu and former U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House (Photo GPO) by Louis Rene Beres “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary…: Rabbi Hillel, Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a Please help us out : Will you offer us a hand? Every […]
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EquityBee Israel team (co PR pic) EquityBee, an Israeli startup that provides an employee-focused stock options funding solution, is making layoffs. The company is letting go of about 25 of its employees in Israel, or roughly 20% of its total workforce. The company has raised $85 million in total investment to date. Israel Startup Nation […]
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By Adv. Nechama Tzivin * The Supreme Court ruling that was published in 2021, on the subject of conversion, is no less than a huge loss and damage to the Jewish cause in the State of Israel, it emphasizes the poor status and condition of the religious parties and especially the ultra-Orthodox in the […]
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Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingTrigo Raises $100 MillionTrigo, an Israeli startup that offers retailers new technologies for in store customer service and checkout, raised $100 million in a new equity financing round led by Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings and 83North. Founded in 2018 by brothers Michael […]
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