Israel’s Simbionix Sold for $305 Million
LAP Mentor Simbionix Simbionix, an Israeli surgical simulation company, has been sold to Surgical Science Sweden for $305 million. Simbionix’s current owners who just sold the company, U.S. 3D printer manufacturer More...
IAI Signs $240 Million Missile Contract with Germany
ELM-2084 is a mobile S-Band Multi-Mission Radar (IAI pic) Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has signed a 200 million Euro ($220 Million) deal with German sensor solutions provider Hensoldt. IAI will provide radar More...
Pink to the Rescue – Singer Backs Norwegian Women’s Handball team
Norway women’s beach handball team — Instagram Popstar Pink has stepped up to defend the Norwegian Women’s handball team. Pink announced that she would personally pay the fines levied against Norwegian More...
The Technion’s Atmospheric Water Generator Wins the Water Europe Innovation Award
Israel’s Technion, one of the top ten science and technology research universities in the world, continues to prove that Israel, or Startup Nation as it is known, is at the forefront of new research. An atmospheric More...
The Vatican Owns More Than 5,000 Worldwide Properties
It turns out that the Catholic Church may very well be the world’s biggest landlord. The Vatican, in an unprecedented act, has revealed that it owns more than 5,000 properties around the world. In spite of More...
Azrieli Group Acquires Norway’s Green Mountain for $850 Million
Azrieli Buys Green Mountain (from Green Mountain Website) Smedvig, the majority owner of Green Mountain, has agreed to sell the company to Azrieli Group Ltd., an Israeli publicly traded real estate investment More...
Church of England Set to Apologize to British Jews
Canterbury Cathedral( Wikimedia Commons) Next year will mark the 800th anniversary of the passage of a group of anti-Semitic laws in England back in the year 1222. These laws led to the eventual expulsion of More...
Nestle Partners with Israel’s Future Meat
Nestlé, the international food conglomerate, will cooperate with Israeli cultured meat startup Future Meat Technologies. Nestlé Research in Lausanne in Switzerland will work with the techies from Future Meat More...
Google Fined $592 Million in France Over Copyrights
(Unsplash) Google was fined by the French competition regulation body today, Tuesday, in the amount of 500 million Euros, or $592 million. The fine was levied over what French authorities are calling Google’s More...
51,000 Year-Old Engraved Neanderthal Bone Gives Scientists New Insights
The Einhornhöhle (Unicorn Cave), Blaue Grotto (Wikimedia) An animal bone carved by Neanderthals was discovered in the “Unicorn Cave” (Einhornhöhle) in northern Germany’s Harz Mountains. The foot More...