Arieli EL, part of the Arieli group of companies, has announced the acquisition of a 59.1% stake in veteran cyber and B2B software holding company Elron Ventures (TASE: ELRN) for $53.2 million from Discount Investment Corporation Ltd (TASE:DISI). This acquisition highlights the significant market opportunities within the Israeli ecosystem, especially in cybersecurity and defense. Lisya […]
StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice files a federal lawsuit against Code Pink, PYM, and WESPAC for blocking worshippers and inciting violence at an LA synagogue.
Ten foreign nationals are being held hostage in the Gaza Strip, seven of whom are alive, according to the Israeli army ■ The police are also investigating the case of a Thai citizen who has been missing since October 7
Japan is experiencing a severe population decline, with a record low of 730,000 births and a record high of 1.58 million deaths in 2023, leading to a population drop of 861,237, the largest ever recorded. The country has the world's second-oldest population after Monaco, with a record-low fertility rate of 1.2 children per woman. […]
Netflix's "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" follows high school student Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) as she investigates a murder case that happened five years before. It is a short, bingeable whodunit focused on high-schoolers, plot twists, and complicated romances, offering a "true crime lite" experience for viewers. The 6-episode first season, created […]
The official mascot of the 2024 Paris Olympics is the Olympic Phryge, based on traditional Phrygian hats symbolizing liberty and the French Republic. The Phrygian caps have historical significance in France as an international symbol of freedom, seen on Marianne figures and various national items. While some have criticized the Phryges mascots as perplexing, […]
Documentary film 'Her name was Zehava' won a prestigious prize at the Haifa Film Festival last year, but the war meant it had to wait to get back on the big screen
A naturally occurring sugar called 2-deoxy-D-ribose (2dDR) was found to significantly stimulate hair regrowth in mice, potentially offering a safe, cost-effective, and non-invasive alternative to current baldness treatments. In a study on mice, researchers from the University of Sheffield and COMSATS University in Islamabad, Pakistan found that a sustained-release sodium alginate-based 2dDR-SA gel resulted […]
Singapore reclaims the top spot with the world's most powerful passport, as the U.S. continues to fall in ranking amidst shifting global visa-free access trends. The recently released Henley Passport Index 2024 ranks passports based on the number of destinations accessible without a prior visa, evaluating 199 countries and 227 travel destinations monthly. It […]
Aristocrats and servants huddle in a lavish countryside villa, in an attempt to turn their backs on the Black Death in Netflix's period dramedy series "The Decameron." The dramedy is very loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century Italian novellas and set during the Black Death in 1348. The none-too-pleasant characters flee a plague-ridden Florence […]
"Zero day," an upcoming Taiwanese TV series, depicts a hypothetical Chinese offensive against Taiwan, including scenarios such as a naval blockade, cyberattacks, financial collapse, social unrest, and a full-blown invasion. The series was funded by the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture, tech billionaire Robert Tsao, and produced in cooperation with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense. […]
The head of a country that is fighting 'on seven fronts' and travels abroad for a week, including a special weekend stay, is anything but a leader ■ Netanyahu must visit Majdal Shams and pay his respects upon his return, but there's no indication that he will
A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has uncovered a unique adaptation in Komodo dragons--their serrated, blade-shaped teeth have an iron-rich coating concentrated along the cutting edges and tips. The coating gives their enamel extra strength, an orange stain, and keeps the edges razor-sharp for ripping apart prey like deer and buffalo. […]
Ten victims were buried in Majdal Shams, where the Hezbollah rocket hit on Saturday ■ An additional victim was laid to rest in Ein Qinya ■ 28 still hospitalized
Report: Israeli retaliation in Lebanon 'certain,' talks underway to avert strike on Beirut ■ Netanyahu's office sought meeting with some Majdal Shams victims' families but was refused ■ Lebanon's Middle East airlines delays return of some flights from Sunday night to Monday morning, without listing reason ■ IDF: Two soldiers seriously wounded in southern Gaza ■ 11 children, teens killed in Hezbollah rocket strike on Israel's Majdal Shams