Category: Business

By Contributing Author In the decade or so since the inception of Netflix and other such streaming services, the floodgates have been flung wide open to the phenomenon of cord cutting. Cord cutting is the symbolic term used to represent households deleting their cable subscriptions and transition fully to online streaming services that are far […]

Capitalism and Jewish Values  There’s a quote I love from the famed Jewish philosopher Martin Buber: “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” Twenty-five years ago when I started working on Wall Street, I had no idea that my journey would find me running a firm that’s about impact investing, social […]

Report released to mark International Migrants Day shows majority of olim are content with their lives, but far fewer are satisfied with their economic status. Israel has welcomed some 3.3 million immigrants since its creation in 1948, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said in a report on Monday. Of that number, 43.7% have immigrated […]

Habana Labs’ artificial intelligence chips are a strategic area in Intel’s new roadmap. This is Intel’s 2nd acquisition in Israel after buying Mobileye in 2017 for $15 billion. Intel announced the acquisition of Israeli startup Habana Labs, the developer of artificial intelligence chips for $2 billion.  This is Intel’s second acquisition in Israel. In March […]

es. Cineworld, the second-largest cinema chain in the world, owns by Israeli family Greidinger. The deal would create North America’s biggest operator of movie theatres. Huge merger in cinema world: British cinema network Cineworld Group acquires Canadian network Cineplex for $2.15 billion (C $ 2.8 billion). The owner of the Cineworld Group is the Greidinger […]

Archaeological excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority south of Ashkelon uncovered an ancient industrial area revealed winepresses and rarely-discovered installations for producing fish sauce that was very popular and the preparation of which involved strong odorsVats used to produce fish sauce (garum) that are among the few known in the Eastern Mediterranean, were recently […]

The decision makes Goldman Sachs the first US bank to define a no-go zone for investment in fossil fuels as well as opening new coal mines anywhere in the world Goldman Sachs Investment Bank will stop financing oil drilling or oil exploration in the Arctic, as well as opening new coal mines anywhere in the […]

Gerald Cotten, who died a year ago, ran the Canadian company which accounts had drained about $140 million a few months before his death    Attorneys representing accountants on the Canadian Bitcoin Quadriga Exchange are asking Canadian authorities to remove the body of the company’s founder, Gerald Cotten, from his grave and check again if […]

Paper tycoon Bob Grossman and his wife Lynne purchased unit The Bristol, a 25-story, 69-unit luxury tower at 1100 South Flagler Drive for $12.2 million. According to Gwinnett Daily Post, brothers Bob and Steven Grossman sold their containerboard and packaging company, Southern Container Corp., in 2008 for $851 million. The couple own a number of […]

“’I believe’ is the great word against metaphysical fear, and at the same time it is a promising avowal of love.”-Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West On December 6, 2019, Mohammed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force deployed at a US Naval air station in Pensacola, Florida, opened fire with a […]