Author: David Leibermann

Israel Independence Day (Wikipedia) Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics has reported that the country’s population has reached 9.391 million. Meanwhile, the world’s total Jewish population is now estimated to be 15.2 million, this according to statistics released by the Jewish Agency. 6.943 million (74%) of Israel’s citizens are Jewish, 1.982 million (21%) Arabs and 466,000 […]

Ami Dadaon (Israel Embassy Twitter) The 2020 Tokyo Paralympic games are bringing Israel gold. Israeli athletes have amassed nine medals at the games, six of which are gold. Swimmer Ami Dadaon has three of Israel’s gold medals. Dadon took gold in the 50-freestyle relay and while finishing in 37.21 seconds and setting a new Paralympic […]

Tel Aviv at sunset, Israel Startup Israel New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli Driving Tech Company Foretellix Raises $32 MillionIsraeli Driving Tec Israeli startup Foretellix, which offers a platform for automating the testing, verification and validation for automated driving systems (ADAS and AV), raised $32 million in a series B funding round led by MoreTech Ventures, […]

President Joe Biden First Day In Office News Capture President Biden seems to have put his foot in his mouth yet again. This time he made some odd comments in a formal virtual call to the Jewish community ahead of next week’s Rosh Hashanah holiday. (Read the full text of the President’s comments here.) The […]

Sassoon House, Shanghai, China Wikipedia World’s oldest Jewish trust, the Sassoon Family Continuation Trust, will transfer $100 billion in assets to the United States. Bruce Fein, Master Trustee of the Sassoon Family Continuation Trust, stated that the funds will be transferred mostly from Switzerland, as well as from some other international financial institutions around the […]

Sol and Sam Schlagman Stint co-founders (from Stint website) Stint is a new app that helps students find work in the gig economy. And it was created by two nice Jewish boys from England, the brothers Sam and Sol Schlagman. Today, Stint is limited to the U.K. But that could soon change. Stint works by […]

(CartiHeal Demonstrates Agili-C™ Superiority to Microfracture and Debridement for the Treatment of Cartilage and Osteochondral Defects) Bioventus, an American orthologics company, has exercised an option that it held to acquire Israeli medical device company CartiHeal. The price is $500 million with $360 million being paid out in front in cash. Pursuant to its Option and […]

Silib/credit Roni Reif Israeli startup Silib has raised $3 million for developing a technology that enables electric vehicles a longer driving range without increasing the volume of the batteries or a longer operating time of various electronics supported on batteries. The investors are Israel Innovation Authority, Nature Capital, and Mobilion Ventures which led the investment […]

Tel Aviv, Israel / photo by Vera Gorbunova, Unsplash Israeli property prices increased by 346 percent during the last decade, the highest increase in the world, according to a new study from money.co.uk. The study examined the average property price in OECD countries over the last decade and compared it to the difference between average […]