Lockdowns Having Less Impact on Tax Revenue than Expected
By Contributing Author It is to be expected for some impacts on the economy to occur during a pandemic, especially when it is followed by lockdowns and quarantine. But, opposite to most predictions, tax revenue More...
Six Highest-Valued Startups in the World, One is Israeli
According to analyst CB Insights, Chinese AI company Bytedance is the highest-valued startup – currently a private, up-and-coming company – in the world. The venture which is valued at US$75 billion is running More...
NASA Warns About ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Approaching Earth
According to LADbible an asteroid larger than the Empire State Building will be flying close pass with Earth on Saturday, June 6. Although it is considered small, the space agency says the asteroid 163348 (2002 More...
Israel Bonds and the Evolution of Israel’s Economy
Ambassador Abba Eban, in reflecting back on Israel’s early, post-independence years, observed, “Israel’s economic situation in 1950 and 1951 was extremely hard-pressed. There were doubts that a tanker More...
Surviving Der Fűhrer: An American Rise and Fall
“The man who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news.” -Bertolt Brecht Any explicit comparisons of the Trump presidency with the Third Reich will elicit multiple cries of horror and execration across the More...
Wuhan Wet Market Is Not The source of Coronavirus But Was ‘Super-Spreader Site’
Experts still don’t know where the coronavirus (COVID-19) came from. It now turns out that the seafood market in Wuhan is one of the victims, the site of an early super-spreader rather than the source of coronavirus, More...
iPhone SE: A Slightly More Polished iPhone 8
By Contributing Author Unlike Samsung, the leading smartphone manufacturer in the world today that floods the market with a wide range of handsets, Apple likes to keep its phone lineup simple. The Cupertino giant More...
Mossad reveals full extent of its massive coronavirus gear haul
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen (Photo GPO) The Mossad intelligence agency obtained hundreds of millions of protective gear and thousands of medical devices as part of a concerted More...
‘Eva Stories’ Won The Internet Oscar Award
The digital venture of Mati Kochavi and his daughter Maya won the WEBBY (“Internet Oscars“) award for Best Story Use of Social Media category for 2020. The series that took to Instagram on Holocaust More...
Charidy crowdfunds $15 Million in 36 Hours for Hatzalah volunteer paramedic services
“Hatzalah-Thon” crowdfunding campaign raised more than $15 million from over 83,000 donors. Charidy has helped Hatzalah-Thon to form a “thank you” to the thousands of paramedical volunteers who have served More...