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Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Thursday, August 12, 2021

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Illustrative image of Binah.ai's technology in use on a phone, a tablet and a laptop. (Courtesy/Binah.ai)

Israeli startup lets users check vital signs by looking at their smartphones

Binah.ai turns mobile devices, laptops into medical monitoring tools that can measure heartrate, oxygen saturation, stress levels

Illustrative: Amazon Prime packages sit in a delivery truck. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Amazon reintroduces limited free shipping to Israel

A signage of Microsoft is seen on March 13, 2020, in New York City. (Jeenah Moon/ Getty Images/AFP)

Microsoft acquires Israeli startup Peer5 to improve video streaming software

Tech giant says acquisition will aid businesses using its communication platform, Microsoft Teams; global real estate giant JLL snaps up Israeli analytics firm Skyline AI

Shoppers at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, on July 27, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel reports low risk to financial sector, small business struggles

In periodic report on domestic financial stability, central bank says Israel’s economy in good shape despite virus and several ongoing risk factors

Hospital staff wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Ziv Medical Center in the northern city of Safed on August 11, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Cabinet okays new restrictions on shops and venues, as cases spike further

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Starting Monday, stores must once again limit customer numbers; from Wednesday, nearly all non-commerce businesses must require Green Pass proof-of-vaccine for visitors

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. (Composite/AP)

Bennett asks Pfizer CEO to speed up vaccine approval for kids under 12

Israelis aged 60+ receive their third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary Clalit health care center in Tel Aviv, on August 10, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM says 3rd COVID shot to be offered to under-60s starting next week

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, a woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)

UN experts urge freeze on surveillance tech sales amid Israeli spyware scandal

By AFP

Special rapporteurs urge Israel to disclose ‘what measures it took to review NSO export transactions in light of its own human rights obligations’

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Global warming, the story that matters most

We need to change habits that exacerbate the crisis, and demand that our governments take the strategic steps to offer coming generations a realistic prospect of, put simply, life

In this June 16, 2021 photo, firefighters work at the scene of a forest fire near Andreyevsky village outside Tyumen, western Siberia, Russia. Wildfires in Siberia are releasing record amounts of greenhouse gases, scientists say, contributing to global warming. Each year, thousands of wildfires engulf wide swathes of Russia, destroying forests and shrouding broad territories in acrid smoke. This summer has seen particularly massive fires in Yakutia in northeastern Siberia following unprecedented heat. (AP Photo/Maksim Slutsky, File)

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