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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

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In the last 3 months of 2024, Israel’s GDP shrank by 20% in annualised term s and Israel’s credit rating was downgraded by Moodys. Sophisticated investors and tech leaders are bullish on Israel But don’t take it from me. What is important for them now in the context of Israel is a permanent ceasefire.

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Israeli Startups Rebound: Q3 Sees $2.43 Billion Raised Amid Investor Shifts

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Despite the war, in the last nine months Sequoia , Greylock and Accel all opened offices in Israel, and Founders Fund appointed a partner to cover Israeli deals. Not bad, considering the that all of this happened while Israel is fighting a war on seven different fronts.

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The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail

David Teten

The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) is a global attempt to persuade people not to do business with Israel or businesses that do business with Israel. All these technologies were developed primarily or entirely in Israel. . 40% of Intel’s sales are from chips developed in Israel.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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Noteworthy Machine Intelligence startups in Israel ?? There’s been a proliferation of Machine Intelligence companies in Israel. Below are 30 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) startups to watch in Israel (Part 1). Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour.

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Israeli startup Landscape Maps (Updated April 2021)

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Israel has already produced three Insurance Tech Unicorns including Lemonade, Hippo Insurance and Next Insurance. The map, created by InsurTech Israel and The Digital Insurer shines a spotlight on the sector in Israel. Source: The Digital Insurer in collaboration with the InsurTech Israel ( Download ). Energy Tech.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

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Israel – 500M NIS to cash strapped startups. Earlier this week, Israel started with an alleviation of the self-quarantine measures that restricted people’s movement to no more than 100 meters from their house. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2 On the health front, there are signs of recovery.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – October 25 2024

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Unfortunately, over a year later, Israel is now defending itself from threats across 7 fronts and there are still 101 Israelis held hostage in G**a. Related: Israel’s special place in the creator economy This is an AI generated video of Fauda – the lego version… credit to Timmy Turtle That’s all for this week.

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