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After eight years of parking, Israel is back on the map with the Nobel Prize - but as in the previous time, this time too it is a "semi-Israeli" win: Prof. Josh Angrist from MIT, an Israeli-American, became the 13th Israeli to win the most prestigious award , Even though he dropped out of his first year as a graduate student at the Hebrew University. The announcement in Stockholm of Prof. Angrist's win joins the winning of 12 other Israelis. So far, the prize is awarded annually to selected personalities for their contribution to science, literature, and humanity as a whole, the author SY...

The cyber ransom event in Hillel-Yaffe hospital is probably the most serious cyber event in the Israeli health system to date.The teams of cyber experts continue to work on rehabilitating the systems and returning to activity quickly. So far it is known that a group of hackers is relatively new, it is responsible for the attack and it is probably also valid for a hospital in the USA. The investigation is still in progress. At this point, both the Ministry of Health and the cyber array have issued preliminary guidelines to other medical institutions. Prof. Nachman Ash, Director General of...

The Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Innovation agreed on a basket of benefits for the advancement of the Israeli high-tech industry. The government will promote three legislative amendments designed to strengthen and promote Israeli high-tech as a key engine of growth in the economy. The Ministry of Finance has issued a memorandum of law for public comments that includes three legislative amendments: 1. "Angel Law": granting a tax credit to an investor in a start-up company. This is first and foremost in order to encourage first-round investments ("pre seed"...

After a long period of information leaks, Intel officially announced the launch of Alder Lake, the new generation of PC processors. This is the 12th generation of Intel Core processors, the successor to the previous generation (Rocket Lake). The new series of processors will be designed for PCs, desktops and laptops. In a press release, Intel (+ 1.71% 137.1) estimated that the processors would generate revenue in the order of tens of billions of dollars. Intel's big challenge will be to prove that the new processors address and close the gaps with the new AMD and Apple processors

The sites that were attacked on Tuesday by the group of hackers affiliated with Iran have not yet returned to work, meanwhile new and worrying details about the hacking of the dating site for the gay homosexual community "Atraf" have been revealed - and the hackers themselves are launching another $ 1 million payment demand. On Sunday afternoon, the telegram group of the hacker group Black Shadow wrote that "so far no one from the Israeli government or Cyberserve has contacted us. Obviously this is not an important issue for them. We know about the concern regarding Atraf's database, and...

Dun & Bradstreet reveals that the best high-tech companies and startups to work for. In the ranking of high-tech companies Microsoft retains the first place for the third year in a row. Google is ranked second and IronSource third. Salesforce jumped from the 10th place to 4th, Palo Alto jumped 7 places and is placed fifth. Monday rose from 16th place to the 8th. In the ranking of startups for the first time the ranking is divided into startups up to 100 employees and startups over 100 employees. Eko is First in the ranking of the best startups with up to 100 employees. Joytunes opens the...

On Wednesday afternoon, the US Department of Commerce dropped a bombshell: it announced that two Israeli companies, NSO and Kandiro, were blacklisted as entities acting against the national interest of the United States, in light of repression aided by the company in authoritarian countries and against democracies. "Foreign governments have served as a means of repression and silence in authoritarian regimes and as a tool against regime opponents, journalists and exiled activists." The decision means that companies will have to issue a special license to trade in the US, but it will also...

The aerospace industry launches the Scorpius family, the first electronic warfare system (LA) of its kind in the world with reception capabilities, blocking and disrupting several threats at different frequencies and in different directions at the same time. And disrupt the activity of enemy systems in a targeted manner, using multiple transmission beams at the same time. The threats handled by the system are from a wide range and include aircraft, drones, ships, missiles, means of communication and more. Unprecedented that it is possible to detect a large number of threats with different...

Nova, which develops measurement solutions for chipmakers, is expanding into another field and increasing its potential market. Nova, under the management of Eitan Oppenheim, has signed a binding agreement to acquire the German company Ancosys for $ 100 million in cash, including a payment of $ 10 million contingent on the performance of the acquired company. Nova estimates that the transaction will be completed in the first quarter of 2022 and it is expected to increase its profit on a non GAAP basis within 12 months of its completion. Ankosis is a private company headquartered in...

The Social Security website crashed on Wednesday afternoon and soon returned to activity for the most part. The Social Security explains that the reason for the fall was a cyber attack on the site. According to the Social Security, the attack focused on loading information on the site and was handled by the Social Security cyber and computer personnel. The Social Security emphasizes that no databases were hacked at all and that public information is preserved. The Social Security cyber and computing blocked access from abroad, thus returning the site to operation. Alex Steinberg, product...