Category: Business

According to a tender issued earlier this month, the Israel Land Authority is now actively seeking blockchain experts to explore various applications of this technology within its operations. The applications point to blockchain being used for property registration, license management, the execution of transactions and agreements through smart contracts, tokenization of real estate properties, […]

Israeli software start-up Digma has raised $6 million in seed funding for its recently-launched “Continuous Feedback” platform, which aims to enable developers to continuously analyze their code to identify issues in real time, preventing bad code from making it to production and slowing down development. The new platform is emblematic of the emerging Continuous […]

Rare coins and bills can fetch a hefty sum, especially if their minting is uncommon. Some 50 pence coins are sold for over $200, while rare £20 notes can be worth over $100. How much are we talking? A coin-collecting expert on TikTok, @coincollectorukofficial, shared how a single £10 coin could be valued at […]

Fifty years ago, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia dared confront the then-most powerful man on earth, US President Richard Nixon. The king wielded an unexpected but fearsome weapon: oil embargoes. King Faisal, angry at Nixon’s massive rescue of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, overnight cut all deliveries of oil to the United States, […]

For almost a year, Large Generative AI Models (LGAIMs) such as ChatGPT have broken through as part of our daily lives. The model’s capacity to engage in a convincing dialogue and produce high-order texts has raised many questions, including whether such models possess independent reasoning capabilities, who trains whom (the machine or us), what […]

The third anniversary of the Abraham Accords has come at a time when a lot of media coverage has focused on the possibility of progress in Israel and Saudi Arabia ties. This could potentially be very important. On another level, the Accords have also led to a lot of opportunities for Israeli companies in […]

Did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turn artificial intelligence into a nuclear weapon at the United Nations General Assembly when he warned of the “potential eruption of AI-driven wars that could achieve an unimaginable scale?” While the central focus of Netanyahu’s Friday speech revolved around his vision for a “new Middle East” marked by peaceful […]

The JTrain consortium has been chosen as the winning bid in the tender to build the Jerusalem light rail Blue Line, the Finance and Transportation inistries along with Jerusalem Municipality announced earlier this week. The JTrain consortium is comprised of construction company Danya Cebus, public transport company Dan and Spanish infrastructure company COMSA. The […]

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money. – P. J. O’Rourke If […]

The government published a bill on September 6 that aims to tighten up Israeli rules for taxing offshore-controlled foreign companies (CFCs) and foreign professional companies (FPCs). The Israeli proposals have echoes of US GILTI (global intangible low-taxed income) rules in the US. Israeli CFC rules aim to tax Israeli resident shareholders on deemed dividends […]