A $30 million cannabis technology venture capital fund is under establishment by Jerusalem-based global investment platform OurCrowd and the 7thirty Opportunity Fund of Boulder, Colorado. The new fund will invest in emerging companies involved in med-tech, ag-tech, retail, e-commerce, marketplaces, SaaS solutions, and deep-tech research related to cannabis. It will be headquartered...

A coalition of Sephardi and Mizrahi groups — Jews who came from the Middle East and Africa — condemned a recent statement by the anti-Israel group, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), saying that it expressed “racist exclusion,” in a statement released Wednesday. The coalition’s statement was published at the website...

The Jewish community in Europe is under threat from an anti-Semitic “plague” Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog warned in a keynote speech at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. JNS reported that Herzog made the remarks in an address to...

British and Israeli ministers announced on Wednesday that they have agreed on an “in principle” post-Brexit trade agreement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as Britain prepares to leave the European Union, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Speaking at the forum, International Development Secretary Liam Fox said: “I’m delighted...

A federal judge in Arkansas ruled that the state’s anti-boycott laws do not violate free speech and are constitutional, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. United States District Judge Brian Miller ruled against the Arkansas Times, which had brought a suit against the state’s 2017 anti-boycott law. The newspaper had asked the...

France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday that he expects a European-backed system to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran, a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which allows European Union countries to circumvent sanctions imposed by the United States, to take effect in the coming days. The SPV would...