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Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Thursday, February 2, 2017

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A first grader raises his hand in a classroom in Nitzan, southern Israel. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Why Yoni and Yael can’t do math

By Simona Weinglass

Israeli math scores are among the lowest in the developed world. The culprit, says one economist, is a society-wide lack of discipline and disdain for rules

D’var Torah for entrepreneurs Parsha Bo

In Israel successful entrepreneurs are celebrated, like rock stars, because of their exits; this week’s Torah portion Bo is the story about the ultimate entrepreneur and the largest exit of all time: Moses and his leadership of the Exodus

Light through the cracks

Taking comfort in Jewish resilience, human empathy, and community, as her beloved liberal landscape shifts underfoot

Check Point Software's founder Gil Shwed speaking at CyberTech 2017. (Courtesy, Gilad Kavalerchik)

Real cyberthreats lie in our mobile devices – experts

By Shoshanna Solomon

Zimperium founder sets up $1.5m program to fight cybercrime that exploits smartphones

Israel seeks to create a digital equivalent to the Iron Dome to fend off cyber attacks (Talucho/Flash90)

Israel works on ‘digital Iron Dome’ for cyberdefense

By Shoshanna Solomon

Combination of systems aims to put state ‘in a much better place’ against attacks, cybersecurity chief says

The Apple Watch introduced on stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube video)

Wrist motion eyed as means to detect forgeries

By Shoshanna Solomon

Software that verifies signatures via smartwatches developed by Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion university researchers

Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia on September 7, 2016. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

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How do Israel’s tech firms do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very quietly

Bloomberg: The Arab embargo of Israel, in force nominally since the founding of the Jewish State in 1948, requires that all business between Israel and most Arab states remain off the books, cloaked by intermediaries in other countries

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Lost your money to binary options? Here’s how some victims got it back

By Simona Weinglass

NTU Singapore and Ben-Gurion University (BGU) join forces at the CyberTech Conference in Tel Aviv on January 31 2017 to develop ways to fight advanced cyber threats. Representatives from both universities include BGU President Prof Rivka Carmi, fourth from left, and NTU Singapore Chief of Staff and Vice-President (Research) Prof Lam Khin Yong , third from right (Courtesy: Dani Machlis/BGU)

NTU Singapore, BGU Israel team up on cyber project

By Shoshanna Solomon

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