Category: Business

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, […]

Israeli fintech startup Pagaya has sealed the deal on an SPAC merger ahead of the company’s initial public offering. Pagaya is looking at a $9 billion valuation from its IPO. This is up from the reported $8 billion expectation of just a few weeks ago. Fintech is a term that refers to any new tech […]

Al Franken (from Al Franken’s website) Former Senator Al Franken is not ruling out a return to politics in the future. He said so, and more, in an interview with MassLive.com. The interview was given to promote Franken’s new tour called “The 15-Stop Tour.” Just by sheer coincidence Franken is performing in 15 different cities. […]

The Bank of Israel has released its data for the Shekel to foreign currencies exchange rates for the second quarter of 2021. Here is a brief synopsis of the data. The Exchange RateThe strengthening of the Shekel in Q2 2021, and for the whole year thus far, was parallel with weakening of the U.S. dollar […]