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TECH ISRAEL

Updates from Silicon Wadi on Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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Check Point CEO Gil Shwed speaks at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv, on January 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Check Point buys Israeli startup to provide safer remote access amid COVID-19

Market source estimates the acquisition of Tel Aviv-based Odo Security at $30 million; founded in 2018, startup has raised $5 million to date

Jerusalem residents, wearing face masks for fear of the coronavirus, on Jaffa Street in the city center of Jerusalem, August 2, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Rosh Hashanah 5781

Israel’s population up to 9.25 million, though growth rate, immigration down

State body says 25,000 people immigrated since the last Jewish New Year, down from 38,000 the year before; life expectancy, among world’s highest, rising slightly

An Israeli man stands on his hands on an empty road during a lockdown following government measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

State virus adviser slams lockdown as ‘stupidest and most hazardous solution’

By Nathan Jeffay

Closure will ‘kill the Israeli spirit,’ says Hagai Levine of COVID-19 czar’s expert panel, as another critic predicts bad results and a rerun in 3 months

Shlomi Fogel, owner of Israeli shipping firm DoverTower (left) and Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem (right), chairman and CEO of Dubai's DP World, sign memorandum of understandings on bidding for the privatization of Haifa port, September 16, 2020. (Robbins Steinmetz PR/courtesy)

Direct Israel-UAE shipping route? Dubai firm bids to take over Haifa port

By AP

Following normalization deal, DP World port operator partners with Israeli company, says it will explore establishing direct trade route from Dubai’s Jebel Ali port to Eilat

Bank Leumi's chairman Samer Haj Yehia, fourth from left, High Excellency Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade, fifth from left, and CEO Hanan Friedman, second from right, with UAE officials; Sept. 14, 2020 (Courtesy)

Israel’s Bank Leumi, UAE banks sign accords to promote business ties

By Shoshanna Solomon

Leumi symbolically sends each bank a money transfer of $180, or ’10 times life’ in Jewish tradition, to mark historic day of Israel and UAE cementing diplomatic relations

This Rosh Hashanah, I’m going to miss the singing the most

I remind myself that song is important not because I enjoy it, but because it can bring people together – when there’s no virus for it to spread

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