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Israeli firm Aleph Farms is to start selling cultivated thin-cut steaks this year after getting approval from the head of the country's Jewish congregation. Jewish dietary law designates kosher meat as having come specifically from a cow slaughtered in accordance with ritual - and requires that it be kept and…

Electric vehicle batterymaker Italvolt will license fast-charging battery technology from Israeli start-up StoreDot to manufacture lithium-ion batteries at a plant it is raising funds to build in Italy, the companies said. Italvolt will ringfence a minimum amount of the batteries produced at the plant for StoreDot's business and customers, Italvolt's statement said, without specifying the amount. StoreDot, whose investors include the truck division of then Daimler, now Mercedes-Benz, BP, VinFast, Volvo, Polestar and…

Israel's Cognyte Software Ltd won a tender to sell intercept spyware to a Myanmar state-backed telecommunications firm a month before the Asian nation's February 2021 military coup, according to documents reviewed by Reuters. The deal was made even though Israel has claimed it stopped defence technology transfers to Myanmar following a 2017 ruling by Israel's Supreme Court, according to a legal complaint recently filed with Israel's attorney general and disclosed on Sunday. While the ruling was subjected to a rare gag…

TEL AVIV—Israeli venture-capital firm OurCrowd is investing tens of millions of dollars to start an artificial-intelligence business in the United Arab Emirates, in the latest sign of deepening commercial ties between the two neighbors after they established diplomatic relations two years ago.OurCrowd said it is partnering with Abu Dhabi Investment Office, a government entity responsible for facilitating investment in the U.A.E. capital, to expand its operations in the country, which will see its team grow to 60 employees…

Drone as a Service (DaaS) company Garuda Aerospace has signed up with Israel's defence systems major Elbit Systems to develop Skylark 3 drones for land mapping and other services, said a top official of Garuda Aerospace."We have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Elbit Systems to initially develop two Skylark 3 drones to be deployed of large-scale surveying and mapping of villages under the Indian Government's Swamitva Scheme," Agnishwar Jayaprakash, founder, CEO of Garuda Aerospace told IANS.The MoU was…

TEL AVIV—When the United Arab Emirates was looking last year for ways to protect its high-profile World Expo from possible drone attacks launched by Iran-backed militants, it secretly turned to a new friend: Israel.Faced with the possibility that Iran and its allies could launch destabilizing attacks on the lucrative event, the Persian Gulf nation bought a small Israeli air-defense system designed to bring down hostile drones, according to former Israeli leaders and defense-industry officials. Those people said the Rafael…

Workers rally outside Google’s New York City office on Thursday, September 8th, 2022.Photo: Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo“No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!” Those words echoed through the air outside Google’s New York City office as workers left for the day on Thursday evening. Outside, they faced a street packed with dozens of Google and Amazon employees opposed to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing project funded by the the government of Israel.While government tech contracts are usually awarded…

Svika Pick, a prolific songwriter and musician who was known as Israel’s “king of pop” and by the moniker the Maestro, has died at the age of 72.He died on Sunday in his home. The cause of death is yet to be announced. When the news broke, Israeli radio stations ended regular programming to play his music, including the classic pop song Mary Lou.“Svika Pick died today, but the songs and melodies he left behind will continue to be played for many years to come,” said the prime minister, Yair Lapid.President Isaac Herzog…

From its inception, the noir novel has provided a suitably brutal critique of capitalism and modern statecraft. The first of its kind, Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest (1929), depicted a midwest town where industrialists used gangsters to deal with organised labour, only to lose control of the violent forces they had unleashed. A stark tale based on the author’s own experience as a Pinkerton strikebreaker, it spawned a whole genre in which detectives manage crime rather than solve it.Leading examples of such fractured…

A rare, nearly 1,850-year-old bronze coin discovered off the Israeli coastal city of Haifa is on display at Israel's Antiquities Authority office in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. The coin bears the image of the zodiac sign Cancer behind a depiction of the moon goddess Luna. Experts said Monday the coin was minted in Alexandria, Egypt, under the rule of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius in the second century. The antiquities authority says it is…