Latest Israel Headlines
All the headlines from our Israel Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Microsoft Puts Israeli Facial Recognition Startup Under Ethics Microscope
Nov 18 2019 // Microsoft Corp. has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded complies with its ethics principles, the company...
Female Entrepreneur Forging Path in Insurtech Space with AI-Powered Chatbot ‘LeO’
Oct 21 2019 // Like many people, entrepreneur and former Israeli tech journalist turned insurtech founder Liri Halperin never expected she would end up in the insurance business. But an insurance buying experience almost four years ago...
Court Upholds Facebook Immunity in Case Brought by Terrorist Attack Victims
Aug 1 2019 // Facebook Inc. on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its terroristic goals. The 2nd...
Moody’s, Israel’s Team8 to Offer Business Cyber Risk Benchmark for M&As, Insurance
Jun 27 2019 // Ratings agency Moody’s Corp. and Israeli cyber group Team8 launched on Thursday a joint venture to assess how vulnerable businesses are to cyber attacks and create what they hope will become a global benchmark. Cyber...
Telecoms Have Lost Vast Data to Chinese Hackers Over 7 Years, Security Firm Says
Jun 26 2019 // Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in a seven-year spying campaign, researchers from a cyber security company said, identifying links to previous Chinese...
Intel’s Mobileye Aims to Launch Trial of Self-Driving Cabs on Israeli Roads in 2020
Jun 21 2019 // Intel Corp.’s Mobileye NV unit expects to launch a trial of robo-cabs next year in Israel, the company told Bloomberg News on Sunday [June 16]. Intel Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan rode a Mobileye autonomous car...
Texas Tops the Nation in Traffic Deaths; Filed Bills Aim to Stem the Tide
Apr 29 2019 // At least one person has died on Texas roads every day since Nov. 7, 2000. Despite efforts to End the Streak, as the Texas Department of Transportation puts it, the state still leads the nation in traffic deaths. Fatalities...
Florida Supreme Court Rules Against Parkland Sheriff
Apr 26 2019 // The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a sheriff who fought his removal from office after the governor claimed he failed to prevent last year’s Parkland school shooting. Florida’s highest court...
Judge Rejects Lawsuit from Florida Sheriff Fired After High School Shooting
Apr 9 2019 // A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Florida sheriff whom Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended after accusing him of failing to prevent the Parkland school shooting. Broward Circuit Judge David Haimes ruled that...
Israeli Risk Modeling Firm Kovrr Launches Silent Cyber Risk Identification Product
Oct 5 2018 // KOVRR, a provider of predictive modeling for cyber insurance, announced a silent and affirmative cyber risk product. The new product enables insurance and reinsurance carriers to identify uncalculated capital at risk and...
Roy Moore Files $95M Defamation Suit Against CBS, Comedian Cohen
Sep 6 2018 // Roy Moore, the former U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama, on Wednesday filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming he was duped into appearing on the British comedian’s Showtime series...
XL Catlin Is Lead Investor in $16.5M Financing for Israeli Maritime Risk Analytics Firm
Jul 3 2018 // XL Catlin’s venture capital arm is the lead investor in a $16.5 million financing for Windward, a maritime risk analytics firm, based in Israel. XL Innovate led the Series C financing, though previous investor...
Milliman Opens Office in Israel
Jun 28 2018 // Milliman Inc., the global consulting and actuarial firm, announced it is opening an office in Tel Aviv, which will provide the full gamut of insurance and actuarial consulting services. Benny Gabbay, a leading figure in...
Supreme Court Denies Human Rights Claims Against Foreign Bank
Apr 25 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations cannot be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan-based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant...
House Approves School Safety Bill
Mar 15 2018 // The House overwhelmingly approved a bill to improve school safety Wednesday, the first gun-related action by Congress since the shooting that left 17 dead at a Florida high school. The bill authorizes $500 million over 10...
Flaws in AMD Chips Make Them Vulnerable to Hacks: Israeli Cyber Security Firm
Mar 14 2018 // An Israeli cyber security research firm with six employees on Tuesday said it had found flaws in Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors that made them vulnerable to hacks. AMD said it was investigating the claims, which...
Israeli Firm Among Those Seeing Profit in Telematics Data
Feb 20 2018 // The road to profits is paved with good data. Every hour, a modern car processes about 25 gigabytes of information — the equivalent of about seven full-length high-definition movies — on everything from engine...
Insurtech Lemonade’s Co-Founder Accuses Amazon of Poaching Employees
Jan 18 2018 // With two social media posts, Shai Wininger, co-founder of the insurtech Lemonade, accused giant Amazon of poaching employees of his startup insurance carrier that is powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral...
Symantec to Acquire Israeli Cyber Security Startup Fireglass
Jul 7 2017 // Symantec Corp. is acquiring Israeli cyber security startup Fireglass, the company said on Thursday, in a small deal designed to boost its products that protect corporate email and web browsing from threats. Symantec is...
Planned Sale of Israel’s Phoenix Holdings to China’s Yango Is Scrapped
Jun 26 2017 // Israeli energy conglomerate Delek said its planned sale of a controlling stake in Israeli insurer Phoenix Holdings to China’s Fujian Yango Group has been called off by both sides after it failed to secure regulatory...
