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Ricky Ben-David
Ricky Ben-David
Ricky Ben-David is a senior news editor at The Times of Israel.
The Moovit app in use in Washington (Courtesy)
December 10, 2019, 11:26 am
Hitting half a billion users, Moovit’s mobility empire wraps up record year
Once used only to find the best bus route to a destination, the Moovit app today offers options for getting around by bike, scooter, train, taxi and even foot
By Ricky Ben-David
Wendell Brooks (left), president of Intel Capital and senior vice president of Intel Corp., and Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Cadence Design Systems and chairman of Walden International, discuss disruption on stage at the 2019 Intel Capital Global Summit on April 1, 2019. (Intel Corporation)
April 3, 2019, 12:14 pm
Intel Capital president: Israel generates better ideas than Silicon Valley
Israel is one of three tech hubs that Intel Corp.’s investment arm is intently focused on, says Wendell Brooks
By Ricky Ben-David
The Intel Capital Israel team, from left to right: Noam Kaiser, Shira Vissoker, Roi Bar-Kat, and Yair Shoham. (Courtesy of Intel Corp.)
April 2, 2019, 2:04 pm
Intel Capital expands Israel team, announces new $117m global investments
At annual summit, semiconductor giant’s venture arm marks significant year for portfolio companies, including Israeli startups
By Ricky Ben-David
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the movement’s biennial conference in Orlando, Florida, November 7, 2015. (Courtesy URJ)
June 30, 2017, 6:15 pm
Reform leader: This is our ‘moment to be smart and strategic about all the money we give to Israel’
Rabbi Rick Jacobs welcomes conversion bill delay, hails ‘unprecedented’ US Jewish opposition to Israeli government decisions on conversion, Western Wall prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative: Staff monitoring the spread of ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in Seoul, May 15, 2017. (AFP/ YONHAP)
May 23, 2017, 5:01 pm
After ransomware attack, focus turns to backup and prevention services
Cybersecurity experts say the best way to counter an infection is to be prepared and have backup systems in place
By Ricky Ben-David
A screenshot from a video of a speech delivered by President Donald Trump to the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in New York on April 23, 2017. (Screenshot/White House)
April 24, 2017, 2:58 am
Without naming Iran, Trump says threats to destroy Israel musn’t be ignored
As Israel marks Holocaust Day, US president tells WJC world must not ‘disregard the warnings of our own times,’ anti-Semitism must be stamped out
By Ricky Ben-David and Eric Cortellessa
Front National leader Marine Le Pen speaks to France 2 on February 9, 2017. (Screenshot)
February 10, 2017, 4:46 am
French Jews will have to give up Israeli citizenship, says Le Pen
Far-right leader says dual citizenship with non-European countries would be banned under her immigration program, except for Russians
By Ricky Ben-David
A Holocaust survivor shows her number tattoo. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
January 31, 2017, 1:01 am
Holocaust museum resorts to explaining Holocaust in statement seemingly aimed at White House
Days after Trump’s omission of Jews from remembrance day statement, museum says ‘accurate understanding of this history is critical’
By Ricky Ben-David and Eric Cortellessa
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller in his office in Austin, Texas on January 9, 2017. (Times of Israel)
January 13, 2017, 5:59 pm
Texas Trump loyalist, a candidate for cabinet post, to launch trade push with Israel, settlements
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller due in Israel in March for talks with ministers, businessfolk; will meet prominent settler leader in Washington next week
By Ricky Ben-David
The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 22, 2016, 8:05 pm
Teva fined $519 million by US government for foreign bribes
Israeli pharmaceutical giant reaches settlement on allegations involving government officials in Russia, Mexico, Ukraine
By Ricky Ben-David
The Jerusalem office of the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceuticals (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 15, 2016, 8:31 pm
Teva faces class-action lawsuit over US antitrust probe into price-fixing
Israeli pharmaceutical giant fielding slew of legal troubles, including internal investigation into bribery
By Ricky Ben-David
Richard Spencer, the self-styled leader of the so-called alt-right movement, speaks at Texas A&M University on December 6, 2016. (Screenshot)
December 7, 2016, 8:00 pm
Taking a page from Trump, white nationalist mocks critics onstage during Texas speech
Hundreds of protesters face off with supporters of Richard Spencer, self-styled leader of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ during talk at A&M University
By Ricky Ben-David
Voters line up outside the Fiesta supermarket in Austin, Texas, November 8, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)
November 9, 2016, 2:07 am
In liberal Austin, Trump voters seem hard to come by
Even some self-described Republicans say they’re not backing the GOP nominee
By Ricky Ben-David
Trump piñatas at Raquels Partyland in Austin, Texas, November 8, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)
November 8, 2016, 8:49 pm
Trump piñatas a popular buy in Austin
Party store sells over 500 candy-filled likenesses of GOP nominee meant to be smashed in celebration
By Ricky Ben-David
Rabbi Neil Blumofe of Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, August 31, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David)
September 7, 2016, 2:50 am
The American rabbi who dared consider a visit to Arafat’s grave
A Conservative congregation in Austin, Texas, is in uproar as its spiritual leader seeks conversation about Israeli and Palestinian narratives, seen by some as beyond the pale
By Ricky Ben-David
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