235 members of Columbia’s faculty, or perhaps more by now, have signed a letter to the Columbia Board of Trustees urging them to reject calls to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The signers of this letter have defended a core value of the American university. Regardless of where...

A small Tel Aviv distillery is poised to become the first Israeli producer to tap into the growing international market for single-malt whisky. “We want people who love the land and love whisky to buy our whisky,” Gal Kalkshtein, owner of Milk & Honey Distillery, told CNN. Since there aren’t enough whisky drinkers...

App developers in Israel are being given a rare chance to meet some of the top movers and shakers in Asia’s smartphone industry as part of the Asia Smartphone Apps Contest to be held in Hong Kong on June 14-17th. This is the fourth year in a row that the...

The legal watchdog group Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center has warned the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) that its support of groups that advocate boycotting Israel could cause the fund to be “considered complicit and as a participant in these groups’ illegal activities.” The letter laid out RBF’s questionable funding: The BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and...

When news of the now-infamous shooting of a wounded Palestinian by an Israel soldier broke last week, Israeli leaders rushed to condemn the incident. The human rights organization B’tselem had filmed the moment in Hebron when an IDF soldier killed a disarmed Palestinian terrorist, lying wounded on the ground, with a...

Playbuzz, a leading platform for online content engagement and social distribution, today announced it has raised $15 million in new funding, led by Saban Ventures with participation from The Walt Disney Company. Existing investors 83North, Carmel Ventures and FirstTime Ventures also participated in the investment round. Playbuzz — used by...