Meeting with Egyptian president Abdul Fatah al-Sisi aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talksIsrael’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett, has met the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in the first visit to Egypt by an Israeli leader in a de…
The Jewish folk song everyone in Japan knows
Noah Oskow discusses the complicated international history of the folk song Mayim Mayim. (SL Youtube)
Six Palestinian militants escape from high-security Israeli prison
Manhunt under way as prisons service says fugitives accessed passages under their cellSix Palestinian militants have broken out of a high-security Israeli prison in what the prime minister, Naftali Bennett, called a grave incident.Israeli police and th…
Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes on Gaza border dies
Omar Hassan Abu al-Nile was hit on the sidelines of a demonstration near the fence separating the Gaza StripA 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot last week by Israeli soldiers during clashes along the border with Gaza has died of his injuries, the territo…
Israel’s maturing fintech ecosystem may soon create global disruptors
What is it about Israeli-founded fintech startups that stand out from their scaling neighbors across the pond?
BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker
BreezoMeter has been on a mission to make environmental health hazards accessible to as many people as possible. Through its air quality index (AQI) calculations, the Israel-based company can now identify the quality of air down to a few meters in dozens of countries. A partnership with Apple to include its data into the iOS […]
Israel’s DiA gets $14M to expand AI-driven ultrasound analysis
Israel-based AI healthtech company, DiA Imaging Analysis, which is using deep learning and machine learning to automate analysis of ultrasound scans, has closed a $14 million Series B round of funding. Backers in the growth round, which comes three years after DiA last raised, include new investors Alchimia Ventures, Downing Ventures, ICON Fund, Philips and […]
Phones of nine Bahraini activists found to have been hacked with NSO spyware
Researchers say bloggers and members of secular leftwing political group among the victimsThe mobile phones of nine Bahraini activists, including two who were granted asylum protection and are now living in London, were hacked between June 2020 and Feb…
The Hope
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections “Untangling these stories behind the story of Hatikvah is the core of this essay. For Hatikvah both is and is not what you think. It does not derive from Smetana nor from a Sephardic prayer. And an earl…
Israeli aircraft strike Hamas sites in Gaza as hostilities escalate
Cross-border gunfire earlier on Saturday seriously injured an Israeli soldier and wounded 41 PalestiniansIsraeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza late on Saturday, the military said, in an escalation of hostilities after earlier cross-border gunfire…