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Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Wednesday, December 8, 2021

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‘Life saving’ Israeli tech helps ID patients most at risk from blood infections

By Nathan Jeffay

Claroty's leadership team from left to right: Udi Bar Sela, CFO, Benny Porat, co-founder, Amir Preminger, co-founder, Guilad Regev, SVP customer care, Natalie Katester Boimer, global VP HR, Yaniv Vardi, CEO, Seth Gerson, VP and general counsel. (Courtesy)

Softbank backs $400m investment in Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty

By Ricky Ben-David

Japanese investment giant’s Israel operations are led by former Mossad head Yossi Cohen, who is joining Claroty’s board

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Carrie Keller-Lynn

It’s the errands, not the commute: What’s really driving Israel’s traffic crisis

Why, if COVID has left many working from home, is the country so gridlocked? Partly because people jump into their newly bought cars for trips they once took on public transit

Traffic jams on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, December 27, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Tipalti employees in Israel. (Tipalti)

Israeli fintech firm Tipalti soars to over $8b valuation after $270m investment

By Ricky Ben-David

Developer of payments and compliance tech quadruples value in one year; clients include Amazon, Twitter, Vimeo

Israeli drug candidate slows Alzheimer’s-causing protein in mouse brains

By Nathan Jeffay

Scientists say their lab results could make their compound a promising drug for combating dementia, possibly also autism

A 3D render of a brain (Kirsty Pargeter. via iStock by Getty Images)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers a speech on stage during a meeting at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 1, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

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Children aged 5-11 receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center in Safed, northern Israel, December 3, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Daily COVID infections hit 6-week high, with 786 new cases

Positive test rate at 0.75%, highest in over two weeks; majority of 5,981 active patients are schoolchildren

Doses of the Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann / POOL / AFP)

Pfizer says three doses of its COVID vaccine protect against Omicron

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