Tag: Investment
Major Jewish donor added to board of Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever
A major Jewish donor will be added to the board of Unilever PLC, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, after the investment company he co-founded recently became its largest shareholder.
According to The Wall Street...
Israeli startups zoom in on climate tech
The acceleration of ecological erosion has made it feel like the planet is on a runaway train. While there has been a lot of goodwill and flowery language dedicated to mitigating and even reversing...
New Jersey poised to divest from Unilever over Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream boycott
New Jersey is poised to become the latest state to divest from the British Unilever company over Ben & Jerry’s decision this summer to boycott selling its products in the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem.
In...
Israeli companies offer to help Azerbaijan rebuild Nagorno-Karabakh
Israeli companies have offered the government in Baku assistance in rehabilitating the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Turkey Ibrahim Khazar told the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency.
According to Aryeh Gut, an expert on Israel-Azerbaijan ties and the...
2021 opens with record investments for Israeli startups
Following a record-breaking year that saw some $10 billion of investment flowing to Israeli companies, the reported amount of funds raised in January exceeded $1.2 billion, the highest-ever amount for a single month.
The highest reported amount...
Why did Israeli firms win record investments in a coronavirus year?
The year 2020 began under the shadow of a coming pandemic that would soon wreak havoc on worldwide health and finances.
Yet despite rising unemployment and a decline in early-stage financing, a year-end report from...
Report: Investment in Israeli companies to reach record $10 billion despite pandemic
Despite the global coronavirus pandemic, Israeli companies raised a record amount of capital in 2020, according to a new report by an Israeli NGO.
According to the report, released by Start-Up Nation Central (SNC) on...
US presses Israel to decrease its ties with China
During their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to further decrease relations with China, including limiting Chinese investments in Israel, reported Axios on Wednesday, citing U.S....