Author: David Leibermann

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 […]

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,” […]