Israel’s Payoneer Fined $1.4 Million by U.S. Treasury Department Payoneer did business in countries under U.S. sanctions. Scott Galit CEO Payoneer Israel’s Payoneer Inc., a global payment and commerce-enabling platform has been fined $1.4 million by the American government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury USDT Office of Foreign Assets Control levied the fine on […]
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Turkey and Israel – are they to be friends? (L-R) President Herzog and Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan by Neville Teller Diplomats the world over blinked in disbelief on Tuesday, July 13 when the news broke that the previous evening Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had phoned Israel’s newly elected president, Isaac Herzog, to offer […]
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David Geffen Gifts $150 million to Yale School of Drama David Geffen also funds The David Geffen Auditorium in Jerusalem. David Geffen Auditorium ((Simulated image Herzog de Meuron, Mann-Shinar Architects) Entertainment mogul David Geffen has donated $150 million to the Yale School of Drama. The money will be used to make the school’s program tuition-free […]
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In a breakthrough for cardiology in Israel, doctors repaired a heart defect in a 38-year-old woman at Shaare Zedek Medical Center without implanting a foreign object in her body. The defect was corrected on Sunday with a stitch, and without putting the patient under full anesthesia, the hospital reported. The procedure, the first done in […]
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Israeli Startup AiVF Works to Improve IFV for Conception AiVF was co-founded by Daniella Gilboa, the JBN entrepreneur of the month. Daniella Gilboa CEO of AiVF (photo: courtesy) In vitro fertilization (IVF) has been around for decades. It is used to help people who are trying to conceive, but have trouble due to some sort […]
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Delayed treatment of heart attack patients in the first months of the coronavirus crisis led to a 65% increase in negative outcomes ranging from malignant arrhythmia, congestive heart failure or even death compared to the same period in 2018, according to a study published this month by a top doctor from Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. […]
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Huge Fallout In Israel Over Ben & Jerry’s Ben & Jerry’s is in big trouble over its decision to join in on the boycotting of Israel. The company revealed its decision to do so yesterday, Monday. Politicians and journalists alike in Israel are up in arms over it. From the news anchors, to the pundits, […]
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Dov Barkai: “Canario will be the Waze for air monitoring” Canario Pro/ Courtesy by Yehudit Haspel Ben-Dak 9 billion people breathe globally polluted air and about 400 hundred million people fight asthma and other respiratory diseases. About 20 million die every year from viral infection spread by respiratory droplets and about 100 million suffer skin […]
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Jewish doctors warned against conspiracy theories claiming the COVID-19 vaccine causes infertility or contains products derived from pork. Jewish News reported on Friday that the open letter, signed by more than 70 British-Jewish doctors and published on Tuesday, warns against falling for such conspiracy theories and states there is “absolutely no evidence” the Pfizer vaccine […]
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Israel High Tech Scene Week In Review July 11 – 17 Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli Tech Startups Raised Record $11.9 Billion In H1 2021In the first half of 2021, Israeli high-tech companies have raised $11.9 billion, a record amount of cash, above the $10.3 billion raised in all of […]
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