Author: David Leibermann

Professor Eliezer Rabinovici, 24th President of the CERN Council (Image CERN) CERN Council in Geneva has been elected Professor Eliezer Rabinovici of the Hebrew University its 24th president. CERN, the world’s largest particle accelerator research center, is an organization of 23 countries, including Israel, the only non-European country. Israel joined as a full member in December […]

Optimove Team (company PR pic) Optimove is an Israeli startup that offers a Customer Service Management (CRM) marketing service. The company is celebrating the end of the Sukkot holiday with a $75 million cash investment, led by global growth investor Summit Partners. Optimove also announced the addition of Summit Partners’ Managing Director Steffan Peyer, and […]

Buligo Capital Leadership Team Buligo Capital, an Israeli real estate firm, is holding its initial public offering IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange TASE. The company has already raised $20 million, and has reached a total valuation of $100 million. Buligo Capital will begin trading officially on the TASE on Thursday. Buligo Capital Partners […]

Palestinians protesting against their own government/ Screenshot from BBC by Neville Teller In the small hours of June 24, 2021 fourteen Palestinian Authority (PA) security officers burst into a house in Hebron, made for a room where 42-year-old Nizar Banat was sleeping and, according to his family, began beating him with metal bars. Security camera […]

Leonardo Dicaprio in The Departed (screen shot) Leonardo DiCaprio, the Oscar winning movie star, has invested in the Israeli alternative meat producing startup Aleph Farms. This marks Leonardo DiCaprio’s biggest Israeli investment, or deposit as the case may be, since he dated Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli. The “Reverent” star’s investment came as part of Aleph […]

Pictured left to right BGU VP for Global Engagement Prof. Limor Aharonson-Daniel, BGU President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz, BGU Rector Prof. Chaim Hames​ (BGU press pic) A year after the signing of the Abraham Accords, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel and Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR) in Morocco signed a historic Memorandum of […]

Seth Rogen 2021 Emmys Broadcast Video Snapshot Seth Rogen just might not ever be invited back to an Emmy awards show as a presenter. This is because he chose to criticize the Emmy show’s organizers for having everyone sit together in a closed tent. The comments came as Seth Rogen presented the first Emmy award […]

New Startups / VC FundingSmart Construction Startup Versatile Raises $80 MillionVersatile is an Israeli construction technology startup that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) to optimize construction processes. Versatile has secured $80 million in Series B funding. Insight Partners led the round, joined by Tiger Global. The investment will support the […]

Sandor Frankel: A relaxed moment with Leona Helmsley (Courtesy) by Yehudit Haspel Ben-Dak  What would you do if one day you ended up managing a $5.4 billion charitable estate, and were given carte blanche to leverage this to better the world?  While this may sound like a fairytale, it really happened to Sandor (Sandy) Frankel, […]