Sol and Sam Schlagman Stint co-founders (from Stint website) Stint is a new app that helps students find work in the gig economy. And it was created by two nice Jewish boys from England, the brothers Sam and Sol Schlagman. Today, Stint is limited to the U.K. But that could soon change. Stint works by […]
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(CartiHeal Demonstrates Agili-C™ Superiority to Microfracture and Debridement for the Treatment of Cartilage and Osteochondral Defects) Bioventus, an American orthologics company, has exercised an option that it held to acquire Israeli medical device company CartiHeal. The price is $500 million with $360 million being paid out in front in cash. Pursuant to its Option and […]
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Silib/credit Roni Reif Israeli startup Silib has raised $3 million for developing a technology that enables electric vehicles a longer driving range without increasing the volume of the batteries or a longer operating time of various electronics supported on batteries. The investors are Israel Innovation Authority, Nature Capital, and Mobilion Ventures which led the investment […]
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With less than a week until the opening of Israel’s schools, parents and teachers received a positive forecast on Friday: The opening of the school year is unlikely to increase the pace of serious COVID-19 infections, as long as the rate of vaccination continues. This is according to a team of researchers from the Hebrew […]
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Tel Aviv, Israel / photo by Vera Gorbunova, Unsplash Israeli property prices increased by 346 percent during the last decade, the highest increase in the world, according to a new study from money.co.uk. The study examined the average property price in OECD countries over the last decade and compared it to the difference between average […]
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Individuals who take the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may suffer from four out of up to 25 clinically relevant side effects: myocarditis, swelling of the lymph nodes, appendicitis and herpes zoster, according to a new Israeli-American study. In contrast, high rates of multiple serious adverse events were associated with coronavirus infection among unvaccinated patients, including a […]
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Pope Francis (Wikipedia) Pope Francis made some objectionable remarks about the Tora earlier this month. Now Reuters revealed that Israel’s Chief Rabbinate issued a formal letter of protest to the Vatican complaining that what the Pope said could be construed as meaning that Judaism, in its entirety, is no longer a valid religion. The Tora […]
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Benny Gantz – Ariel Hermoni, Ministry of Defense Defense Minister Benny Gantz briefed 60 foreign ambassadors on the security situation today (Wednesday), addressing the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the Iranian nuclear issue, Lebanon, and the situation in Judea and Samaria. “Iran has an intention to destroy Israel, and it is working to have the means […]
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A UK-based American pharmaceutical firm has had positive results so far in the late-stage trials for its treatment of Tay-Sachs disease, in what could be a major breakthrough for a condition disproportionately affecting Ashkenazi Jews. Developed by IntraBio, the treatment, a drug dubbed IB1001, is being tested as a means of treating GM2 Gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs […]
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It seems that Dan Ariely may have lied about lying. At least that is the current scuttlebutt revolving around an important study that Ariely released back in 2012. The study was centered on the issue of cheating. Born in America, but raised in Israel, Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and […]
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