Author: David Leibermann

Chelsea FC sold. Roman Abramovich. Photo by Marina Lystseva, Wikipedia Chelsea FC confirmed to reports that the new ownership consortium chaired by Todd Boehly, co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball franchise, would purchase the football club in a deal valued around £4.25 billion. Californian private equity company Clearlake Capital would control the majority of […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC Funding Hello Heart Raises $70 Million For Heart Attack Prevention TechHello Heart, an Israeli medtech startup offering a digital program that helps users to understand and improve their heart health, has raised $70 million in Series D financing. The news comes one year after Hello Heart […]

Teddy Bear Hospital. photo by National Cancer Institute/ Unsplash Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine Complex in Safed transforms into ‘Teddy Bear Hospital,’ to help toddlers and preschool children to undergo hospitalization. Children are invited to bring their teddy bears and dolls to be checked by medical students and staff during the popular annual community […]

The FDA unveiled a plan on Thursday to prohibit the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes in the United States, a move praised by many public health experts as the government’s most significant action in more than a decade of tobacco control efforts. According to the New York Times, menthol cigarettes account for over a third of […]

L-R Omri Casspi and David Citron, Sheva VC/ Photo courtesy Omri Casspi, who spent almost a decade in the NBA and was Israel’s national basketball team’s captain, is launching “Sheva,” a new venture capital fund dedicated to investing in early-stage startups. The fund was co-founded by David Citron, an early-stage venture capital investor. David was […]

by Contributing Author You might be aware of the recent hype about collagen powder or supplements. Due to its impressive benefits, collagen powder is being used widely. Collagen is a protein that is found in a number of parts of our body. The cartilage between the bones is one of those parts. It is basically […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingFundGuard Raises $40 Million For Investment ManagementFundGuard, an Israeli fintech startup that offers an AI-powered SaaS investment management and asset servicing enterprise platform, closed a $40 million Series B funding round from investors that included Citi and State Street Corp. Fintech is one of the hottest […]

On the occasion of Holocaust Heroes and Remembrance Day in Israel, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released the statistics on the number of Holocaust survivors in Israel. It also released the breakdown and total numbers of world Jewry. There were 165,000 people recognized as Holocaust survivors living in Israel at the end of […]

Russia is taking punitive measures in retaliation for the European Union’s continued efforts to sanction that country for its invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s gas company Gazprom on Wednesday announced an abrupt halt to natural gas sales to two EU member states Poland and Bulgaria. The move sent natural gas prices skyrocketing by more than 20%. […]

Catalonia Spain by Mathias PR Reding / Unsplash by Contributing Author Catalonia is one of the seventeen autonomous regions of Spain. It borders the Mediterranean on one side and the Pyrenees on the other. There are also many museums in Catalonia: artists Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and architect Antonio Gaudi lived here. There are so […]