Author: David Leibermann

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,” […]

Omnistream Facebook pic Omnistream is an Israeli startup that says it will make broadcasts – streaming – of videos from mobile devices much more efficient and have greater quality. Everybody watches all manner of videos on their smartphones and tablets that are available to stream, but have you ever thought about when you send out […]

Mark Malyar Wins Gold (screen capture) There were plenty of big Jews in sports stories this past year. How to choose just 5 of them? Well, we could have given you stories about the mercurial owner of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban. But we write about him all of the time. Instead, we decided to […]

Orca Security founders Avi Shua and Gil Geron (PR Pic) SentinelOne, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, has been planning on taking over fellow Israeli cybersecurity company Orca Security for some time now, at a reported price of $2.5 billion. But now Calcalist is reporting that there may be some problems with the SentinelOne takeover bid that […]

One time Oscar nominee James Franco has finally admitted that he did have sex with some of his students when the actor ran his own acting school. The confession came in an appearance on the SiriusXM Jess Cagle show. Franco, now 43, came right out and said, “Look, I’ll admit I did sleep with students. […]

Redis, an Israeli startup and unicorn that develops database software, is planning on holding an initial public offering IPO. According to a report in Calcalist, the IPO could leave Redis with a valuation from anywhere between $4 and $5 billion. The news comes after Redis became a unicorn back in April, hitting a $2 billion […]

Lorne Michaels, the man behind Saturday Night Live, its first producer, the man who started it all, is planning on finally calling it quits after fifty years. Born Lorne David Lipowitz in Toronto, Michaels has won 20 Emmy awards and produced SNL for all but five of its now 47 years on the air. Michaels […]

Prof. Daniel Offen Medical cannabis oil has successfully treated autism in animal models. This treatment improves both behavioral and biochemical parameters of autism. The results of the surprising study, led by Ph.D. student Shani Polegwere, were published in Translational Psychology by Nature. “The usual process for testing new medications involves research in petri dishes, followed […]

by Contributing Author How can owners of startup businesses get more customers and enhance their bottom line? That’s the question so many entrepreneurs ask themselves after opening the doors of a new organization, and it’s an appropriate one. After the glow of those first few weeks wears off, company founders start to wonder about long-term […]