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Israel extends lockdown, sees delay in COVID-19 turnaround

Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry the body of Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik during his funeral in Jerusalem, January 31, 2021. The Israeli Cabinet has voted to extend a nationwide lockdown for at least

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Orca Security raises $55M for its cloud-native security platform

Israeli cloud security firm Orca Security today announced a $55 million Series B funding round led by ICONIQ Growth. Previous investors GGV Capital, YL Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Investments als

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UAE could get F-35 jets in side agreement as U.S. pushes

An F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter takes off on a training sortie at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, March 6, 2012. /Reuters The Trump administration has expedited a push to sell F-35 w

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Israeli parliament reverses gov't decision to shut down public pools, gyms

Israel's parliamentary special committee on the novel coronavirus has decided to reverse the government's decision to close public swimming pools and gyms across the co

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Facebook expands its fan subscription program

Facebook is expanding the availability of the tools it offers to help game streamers and other online creators make money.The social network first launched fan subscriptions in early 2018, giving a sm

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Discover is Facebook’s new effort to help people access any website in text format

Facebook has a new connectivity app called Discover to help those who can’t afford to get online access information on the web.The service, available through mobile web and Android app, allows users

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Glassbox raises $40M for tools to track and optimise web user experience

A lot of attention is focused on how some tech services are seeing a big boost in demand during the coronavirus pandemic — for example, streaming services and other online media, and anything to

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Israel’s maturing cybersecurity startup ecosystem

It often feels like half of the new security startups that receive funding are from Israel. As YL Ventures’ Yoav Leitersdorf and Ofer Schreiber wrote last month, investments in Israeli cybersecu

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Identifying opportunities in today’s saturated cybersecurity market

Yoav Leitersdorf is the founder of YL Ventures, a 12-year-old, Mill Valley, California.-based seed-stage venture firm that invests narrowly in Israeli cybersecurity startups and closed its fourth fund