Posts Tagged: coronavirus
In Patchwork Restart, Parts of New York and Other US States Reopen
Less populated areas of New York, Virginia and Maryland took their first steps towards lifting lockdowns on Friday, part of a patchwork approach to the...
COVID-19: Let’s Prove Hobbes Wrong
Earlier this week, I stumbled across an absolutely remarkable article in The Guardian: “The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were...
Israeli Tech Industry will Miss Good Old Days of 2019, Survey says
CTech - The annual survey held by Israeli law firm Shibolet & Co. in collaboration with Fenwick & West from Silicon Valley shows how much...
Defending Israel’s Skies Amid Global Pandemics
JNS.org - Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the Israeli Air Force’s Air Defense Array has continued to stand guard, monitoring and protecting Israel’s skies against a...
On UN Video Call, Prominent US Rabbi Urges Global Unity in Coronavirus Fight
A prominent US rabbi issued a call for global unity amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis in a United Nations General Assembly video conference that took...
Covid-19 Gave Medtech a Push Forward, Says Israel’s EarlySense CTO
CTech - If you ask Guy Meger, the chief technology officer and general manager of Israeli medtech company EarlySense, the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has had...
Lag B’Omer Amid COVID-19: An Invitation to Civility
Some 2,000 years ago, according to the Talmud, “Rabbi Akiva had twelve thousand pairs of students in an area of land that stretched from Gevat...
Covid-19 Ended the Heyday in the Israeli Tech Job Market
CTech - The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis that has led to mass layoffs and forced leaves in the Israeli tech sector has upended long-standing job recruiting...
When You’re in Lockdown, Innovation Takes a Back Seat, Says Israel’s Tech Ambassador to Silicon Valley
CTech - The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has created an economic crisis unlike anything the world has ever seen. For many Israeli startups that will mean...
Turkey Won’t Recover Quickly From the Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has deepened fundamental imbalances in the Turkish economy, making a post-crisis freefall quite likely. However, as far as Turkey’s difficult foreign policy...
Survey: 85% of Israeli Jews Say Jewish State Should Aid the Diaspora in Fight Against Coronavirus
A strong majority of Israeli Jews believe that their government should assist the Diaspora in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey shows. The...
How the IDF Mobilized Against COVID-19
JNS.org - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) elite naval commando unit, Shayetet 13, has been making non-stop deliveries of oxygen cylinders to civilian care facilities...
Iran-Linked Hackers Recently Targeted Coronavirus Drugmaker Gilead, Sources Say
Hackers linked to Iran have targeted staff at US drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc in recent weeks, according to publicly-available web archives reviewed by Reuters and three cybersecurity...
US Secretary of State Confirms Israel Trip Next Week, Says Ties Have ‘Never Been Stronger’
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed on Friday he would travel to Israel to next week, in what will be his first overseas trip...
