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

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Google to set up chip team in Israel led by former Intel exec

By Shoshanna Solomon

US tech giant says in blog it is ‘doubling down’ on designing and building custom chips to boost performance; newly appointed Uri Frank will build ‘world-class’ team in Israel

Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a printer in the Karnei Shomron settlement in the West Bank on March 9, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel votes

Here we go again: ToI’s guide to the 37 parties still seeking your vote

From Netanyahu apparatchiks to those dead-set on ousting him, plus anti-vaxxers and cult wives, everything you need to know about the factions running in Tuesday’s election

A campaign poster of Likud's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 21, 2021. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Times of Israel PodcastPodcast: Daily Briefing Mar. 22 – What you need to know on eve of 4th election

Gilly Regev, an Israeli-raised scientist who co-founded the company SaNOtize, uses the new nasal spray she developed (Screen grab)

Inventor: Could've prevented much of world’s COVID infection

‘Life-saving’ nose spray that kills 99.9% of viruses begins production in Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

Health Ministry-approved labeling says antiviral is effective within 2 minutes; can save many lives in countries without access to vaccines, says inventor

Illustrative image of an elbow-bump (Picturesque Japan; iStock by Getty Images)

First investments by VC funds in Israeli tech soar to 7-year high in 2020

By Shoshanna Solomon

Even amid the challenges of the pandemic, VC funds added a total of 620 new companies to their portfolios, up from 470 in 2019 and 439 in 2014, report by IVC, APM & Co shows

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Positive test rate for virus drops to lowest level since November

Just 1.5% of coronavirus samples taken on Sunday were infected, Health Ministry figures show; nearly half the population now fully vaccinated

Illustrative: A medical worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem on February 25, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Pfizer vaccine less effective against South African variant, Israeli study finds

Screen capture from video of a rocket that launched three Israeli nanosatellites from Kazahkstan, March 22, 2021. (Twitter)

3 Israeli nanosatellites blast into space to test new method for rescue beacons

By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff

Trio of shoebox-sized, fuel-sipping spacecraft aim to provide emergency location services usually supplied by much larger satellites

An illustrative image of a water treatment plant (tuachanwatthana; iStock by Getty Images)

OurCrowd, US Waterfund to set up joint water-tech investment portfolio

By Shoshanna Solomon

The 2 firms are also setting up Aquantos, a financial entity that will issue bonds and other instruments for investment in clean and water technologies

The SCADAfence team, March 2021 (Courtesy)

Cybersecurity startup SCADAfence raises $12 million to boost growth

By Shoshanna Solomon

Funding in the company, a developer of solutions for critical infrastructures and manufacturing plants, is led by JVP and includes new strategic investment from US firm Rapid7

The Nasdaq building in Times Square in New York. (littleny, iStock by Getty Images)

From the web

It’s official: ironSource to list via SPAC at $11.1b valuation

Globes: The maker of a platform for game and app developers will be merged into SPAC Thoma Bravo Advantage, as previously reported

Elections 2021: What change for Israel?

The country’s circumstances are different this time around, but will the outcome be?

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