Silicon Valley

El Al launches direct, 15-hour-long flight to San Francisco from Tel Aviv for next fall

It chose LY49 as the flight number for the 15-hour flights, which will happen three times a week, in homage to the San Francisco 49ers football team.

 The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, CA at sunset. This photo was taken from the Marin Headlands.
Marco Sermoneta arrives at the Ninth Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

'Shame, disgrace': Israeli diplomat in US heckled at Silicon Valley Memorial Day ceremony

International representatives at the US-Led Pax Silica Summit.

Pax Silica: Israel’s chance to become a must-have ally - opinion

(L-R): Joe Lonsdale, Shaun Maguire, Jordan Fried

No. 39: Shaun Maguire, Jordan Fried, and Joe Lonsdale: Catalysts of innovation


Grapevine February 21, 2021: The silver lining behind the cloud

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NAHUM GUZIK, photographed by his friend Erwin Shenkelbach, with whom he worked together at a TV station in Jerusalem.

Matricelf wins Israel's Startup World Cup contest

For the first time being held in Israel, the competition is sponsored globally by Pegasus Tech Ventures and organized locally in Israel by Tech It Forward.

Matricelf CEO Asaf Toker at the Startup World Cup competition

Israel's FutuRx, US-based Atomwise enter into strategic partnership

The A2i Therapeutivs joint venture project will be funded by the Israeli Innovation Authority, FutuRx investors and addition resources and support provided by Atomwise.

An individual dose of the filled SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate made by biotech company IDT Biologika in Dessau-Rosslau, Germany. June 24, 2020

Our Days of Awe nurture shirt-off-your-back givers, not takers

The Marxist-infused woke culture – forever cultivating your sense of injury, branding any disagreements “violent,” and canceling deviants - is Hobbesian, asserting dominance by affirming victimhood.

Naomi Hassebroek holds her son Felix while working with her husband, Doug Hassebroek, at their home, in Brooklyn, New York, in March 2020

Israeli company Healthy.io buys largest American competitor, Inui Health

Healthy.io’s system looks for signs of early kidney disease and UTIs.

An illustrative picture of the Healthy.io wound monitoring technology.

Israeli innovation in Silicon Valley taking a back seat to coronavirus

The only startups that seem to be weathering the current crisis are those that have products curtailed to combating the current coronavirus pandemic.

Silicon Valley

Social media giants warn of AI errors as coronavirus empties offices

In a blog post, Google said that to reduce the need for people to come into offices, YouTube and other business divisions are temporarily relying more on artificial intelligence and automated tools.

Artificial intelligence

Silicon Valley Executives Host Holocaust Remembrance Events

"Silicon Valley also has a responsibility to harness the power of technology and the community to promote values of morality and justice,” said ICON CEO Yasmin Lukatz.

Yasmin Lukatz

Tel Aviv-based monday.com raises $150m. in latest funding round

‘We intend to use this funding round to continue our growth, to build our sales force and perhaps open more offices in the US and Europe.’

Staff at monday.com's Tel Aviv headquarters

Facebook evacuates four buildings after possible sarin exposure

A package at the social media company's Silicon Valley mail facility has tested positive for the toxic compound.

A Facebook address sign is seen at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Wednesday, October 10, 2018