Israel and Mauritius were the only two countries in the Africa, Near and Middle East to take part in the Ministerial Conference of the WTO on the fall schedule of tariffs on ICT products, held in Nairobi December 16, 2015. at this conference, participants announced the conclusion of talks to liberalize trade in products of information technology beyond the original ATI 1996. The WTO‘s 10th Ministerial Conference was…
Tel Aviv-based fraud-prevention company Riskified announced Wednesday it has raised $25 million in new financing, or more than four times its previous fund-raising total of $6 million. The company, which was founded in 2013, analyzes credit-card transactions for online retailers…
Israeli cyber security company Cynet, which pioneers an all-in-one agentless cybersecurity solution for detection and remediation of advanced and unknown threats, has closed a $7 million investment from US based hedge fund Lazarus. Based in Rishon Lezion, Cynet was founded in…
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today extended the partnership with Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, by signing a new framework agreement, building on a successful innovation partnership of almost four decades. Innovation was key for Merck’s now…
Israeli company RAD, whose award-winning Service Assured Access (SAA) solutions improve mobile network performance by ensuring quality of experience (QoE) and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO), has announced that a major 4G mobile operator in Asia has deployed its patented…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with other ministers and directors of government ministries met with top German officials this week in Berlin. At a meeting between the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry Amit Lang…
Physician/researchers at the Hadassah Medical Center have found that a large fetal head circumference is more strongly associated with unplanned cesarean and instrumental delivery than high birth weight. The conclusion is based on an electronic medical records-based study of babies…
Israel will host the 28th meeting of the Animals Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). This is a precedent-setting event, as Israel’s first global UN conference of this magnitude. The project…
Moovit, the leading local transit app in the world, this month celebrates the two-year anniversary of its landmark Community program. Since the program’s inception, Community editors have volunteered their time and energy to map over 100 cities that the company…
Russia and Israel plan to sign a free trade agreement within the nearest future, Deputy Agriculture Minister Sergey Levin said on Friday after talks with the Israeli side. “We’ve discussed the prospects of forming a free trade zone, which the…
