Category: Business

With Israel at war, Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Bonds and its affiliates around the world this week secured over $200 million in bond sales and commitments from investors since the war broke out in Israel Investments came from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Florida Department of Financial Services, Illinois State Treasurer, New York State Common […]

One in four social media users posting about the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel is a fake account. This is the claim made by Cyabra, an Israeli social media threat intelligence company — and the vast amount of data scraped, compiled, and analyzed by the company’s platform backs it up. The company uses semi-supervised […]

Moody’s sent a warning to Israel on Wednesday just days before a scheduled rating review that a prolonged war with Hamas could drag down the country’s credit score. Surprise attacks by Hamas at the weekend have sparked the worst escalation in violence in 50 years and raised questions about not just the humanitarian cost, […]

In the wake of Hamas’s shock terrorist attack in Israel on Saturday — which saw over 1,200 men, women, children, and babies killed and more than 150 others taken hostage — Israel’s hi-tech industry is extending a helping hand. In a statement on behalf of the Israel Advanced Technology Industries Association (IATI), which serves […]

With the Internet holding a critical role in navigating these complexities, the 18th annual Internet Governance Forum hosted by the Government of Japan is under the overarching theme, ‘The Internet We Want – Empowering All People.” Mitigating the risks Considering the rapid tech advances, including in Artificial Intelligence (AI), risking exacerbating existing inequalities, the Forum […]

Office employees throughout the country were instructed to work from home or take the day off on Sunday, following the outbreak of a war between Israel and Gaza on Saturday. Companies throughout the hi-tech, legal, communications and several other industries sent notices to their workers, telling them to stay at home and work remotely. […]

Philips, Nvidia, IBM, Road2, Margalit Startup City Haifa, the Israel Innovation Authority, the Rambam Medical Center, Clalit Health Services, and additional partners have joined forces to lead  Startup City Haifa, the Digital Health Accelerator. The program is dedicated to scaling up startups operating in the digital health domain and is based on collaboration among […]

Israel and Azerbaijan signed a historic agreement to cooperate on space on Wednesday, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology announced Thursday. The agreement was signed at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held this year in Baku.  “The agreement signed today is further evidence of the strengths of Israeli science, innovation and the space […]

Chess is known as the game of kings, but due to the underestimation of females’ intellectual capabilities at playing, it isn’t the game of queens. Parents and coaches of youth chess players peg the highest potential rating of girl players to be lower than that of boy players, according to New York University psychologists.  […]

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported that world economic growth is expected to decelerate from three per cent last year to 2.4 per cent through 2023, with limited signs of a rebound in 2024.   These figures underscore the urgent need for reform of the global financial system, more practical policies to […]