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Startup Daily

Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Monday, February 22, 2021

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Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, poses for a photo outside the New York Stock Exchange as fireworks are exploded before his company's IPO, performed via a reverse merger with a SPAC, on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)

Israeli startups join craze as SPACs pack stock market with quickie IPOs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Special purpose acquisition companies are outpacing the traditional way to go public in the US, and Israeli regulators are in talks to bring them here as well

Shaare Zedek hospital team member wearing safety gear help a pregnant woman at the Coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Death of mother, fetus highlights sharp rise in COVID infections among pregnant

Despite government recommendation, only one-third of pregnant women in Israel have been vaccinated; 50 expectant mothers currently hospitalized, including 8 in critical condition

The Daily Briefing

Times of Israel PodcastPODCAST: Daily Briefing, Feb. 22 — Coronavirus stats, successes and sadnesses

Illustrative image of pineapple slices with leaves (Tim UR; iStock by Getty Images)

Digging deeper into pineapple, MediWound seeks to treat non-melanoma skin cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

In pivot, biotech firm that makes burn and wound treatments will start clinical trial for new drug candidate in Q2 in three US medical centers

Lancôme plans more virtual stores like this one created using ByondXR’s technology (ByondXR)

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Israeli startup helps Coca-Cola, Lancôme and big brands recreate shops online

ByondXR’s online simulation of physical retail stores boosts sales during pandemic

Illustrative: Israel's offshore Leviathan gas platform. (Albatross)

Israel to build new natural gas pipeline from its offshore rig direct to Egypt

During visit by Egyptian minister, countries agree on project aimed at making use of Egyptian liquefaction facilities to boost exports to Europe

Illustrative: Amazon Prime boxes are loaded on a cart for delivery, October 10, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Observant Jewish vendors squeezed by Amazon’s 6-day-a-week shipping requirement

TAU-SAT1, the nanosatellite developed by Tel Aviv University. (Tel Aviv University)

'It'll burn up in the atmosphere and come back as stardust'

Israeli-made nanosatellite released into Earth orbit

Astronauts aboard International Space Station launch Tel Aviv University’s TAU-SAT1, which will measure cosmic radiation around Earth

A military delegation visit the display of Halcon, a regional leader in the end-to-end manufacturing of precision-guided systems, during the opening day of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference, IDEX, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 21, 2021. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)

UAE weapons show draws major deals, traders, but pandemic keeps Israel away

By Isabel Debre

Travel restrictions force Israeli arms producers to skip what would have been first time participating in lucrative expo

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, speaking at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

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Bank of Israel holds key rate at 0.1%, concerned over new COVID-19 variants

Reuters: The nation is emerging from a third lockdown of nearly two months that the central bank says had a more moderate impact on the economy than previous rounds

Alon Tal

Lessons from inside the whale

Yesterday, I attended a most unusual autopsy. It was conducted by Dr. Roni King, the chief veterinarian of Israel’s Parks and Nature Authority along with two Hebrew University veterinary pathologists. The experts were trying to understand what had caused a young, 19-ton fin whale to wash up dead onto Israel’s Nitzanim beach. After they cut the enormous creature open, significant tar accumulations could be identified inside its massive entrails. It will take a while for the laboratories to confirm the prevailing assumption, but all the zoologists on site seemed to... Continue Reading

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