Part One of a Three-Week Odyssey It’s been over six years since I’ve been to Israel. Let’s just say, I was way overdue. My connections there are deep and wide. Although I have a small number of actual relatives who made Aliyah in the…
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Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part I of 3)
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From New York: Without international partners, science will fall short
Under the shadow of geopolitical tension and global uncertainty around the future of Israel, doubling down on international academic collaboration can serve as an antidote that allows us to envision a brighter version of this future. Calls for…
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How the West’s $57 Billion Bailout Is Funding Egypt’s Next Disaster
In the closing weeks of the year, Egypt staged a parliamentary election that was less a democratic exercise and more a choreographed formality. With parties friendly to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime dominating the ballot, and…
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Israel’s Death Penalty Bill and Lapel Pin Glorify Killing and Sanctify Revenge
It was an abject abomination for lawmakers in the far-right Otzma Yehudit party to wear golden lapel pins in the shape of a noose during a recent committee meeting on the controversial bill to legislate the death penalty for terrorists….
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Medline’s Founding Family Has $6 Billion-Plus Stake In Its Upcoming Blockbuster IPO
The Mills family cashed out a majority stake in the family’s medical supplies firm to private equity in 2021. But the coming $50 billion IPO shows that even what they continue to hold is worth a fortune. Combined, Forbes estimates they’re…
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Two Species of Coelurosaurs Co-Existed in Cretaceous-Era Brazil
Paleontologists have performed a comprehensive anatomical reassessment of the fossilized remains of two coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of South America: Santanaraptor placidus and Mirischia asymmetrica.
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Medline’s Founding Family Has $6 Billion-Plus Stake In Its Upcoming Blockbuster IPO
The Mills family fortune has soared 18-fold in nearly a dozen years, thanks to Covid and a rush of private equity money.
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Leadership and Responsibility
What Israel taught me this week about what it truly means to lead. Leadership is one of those words we use so easily that we forget what it costs.Titles are cheap. Platforms are plentiful. Opinions are everywhere. But responsibility — real…
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Struggling Mobileye to lay off hundreds of workers, mostly in Israel
Mobileye, Intel’s Jerusalem-based developer of advanced vision and self-driving technologies, said Monday that it was laying off about 200 employees, or about five percent of its global workforce.
The developer of technology for…
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Utilities Down as Treasury Yields Rise – Utilities Roundup
Shares of power producers fell as Treasury yields rose ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting.
“Traditionally, most of the time, we don’t think of utilities as being in the growth camp, but right now they certainly are,” said J.D. Joyce,…
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