Starting late at night on Sunday, a wave of cancellations of events that were scheduled to take place on Monday began. This, following the widespread demonstrations that continued throughout the night after the announcement of the dismissal of Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
In the meantime, Super Pharm postponed the launch of Iruka that was supposed to take place from Monday until after Passover. As you may recall, Super Pharm purchased the sunglasses chain in August of this year for more than NIS 75 million in order to expand its operations in the field of optics. Now, it was set to launch the operation that is expected to increase competition in the hot glasses market, after Harel Wiesel’s Fox Group opened the Sunglass Hut chain of stores in Israel.
The opening event of the Seven Eleven branch on Lincoln Street in Tel Aviv was also postponed: the opening of the fourth branch of the international chain was supposed to be held on Monday, after the chain launched operations in Israel about two months ago with the first branch opened in Dizengoff Center. Last week, the third branch of the chain opened in Nachalat Binyamin, in the iconic location where the Burger King branch used to operate at the intersection between Nachalat Binyamin and Shinkin Street.
In addition, the launch event of Terminal X Space that was supposed to take place on the second, has been postponed. Later, CEO and owner of Fox Harel Wiesel announced that all chain stores are closed until the legislation is frozen in the Knesset. The Hot company also canceled the annual content event that was planned for Monday morning.
Shira Sapir
Industrial Zone
“Life and death in the hands of the keyboard”
The artificial intelligence revolution is stirring up entire industries, and generating quite a few discussions. Recently, Ido Bar-Gil, founder and CEO of Nextgen Solutions, which provides strategic solutions for organizations, initiated a conference on the subject that took place at Microsoft’s offices.
About 60 designers, programmers and VPs of Technology took part in the conference, along with experts in nutrition and sports, innovation, academia, lawyers and legal advisors. “This is a revolution that changes our world from end to end,” said Bar-Gil. It is certainly possible that it will be misused and that is my main concern.
“The saying ‘life and death in the hand of the tongue’, or in this case the keyboard, takes on a double and redoubled meaning these days. It will not be far today that anyone from anywhere can spread fake news or inflammatory words. This is why it is also important, at the same time, to talk about Responsible AI (beyond protections that the companies give and provide with the capabilities), because in the end values such as education and personal responsibility will be more and more important than today.”
Looking for cyber investments in Israel
Sanjay Karla, founder and CEO of the ISMG media group specializing in the cyber field, recently arrived in Israel to examine investments in the local market. The company intends to invest in Israel approximately NIS 200 million in operations until the year 2025.
“Israel is a world center of cyber”, the company explains the move. The entry will be made through the Extra Mail agency – which the company purchased last year – which offers global marketing services to Israeli hi-tech and cyber companies.
ISMG’s clients include government bodies such as NASA, and cyber companies such as Cyberark, Palo Alto, Wiz, Cisco, Check Point, Microsoft and more.
In Israel, Sanjay Karla is looking for companies in the field of cyber education, that is, those that deal with teaching cyber people the regulations, risks and software relevant to the market in which they operate; Or in studying the insurance companies what are the different cyber challenges that all companies face.
Galit Hatan
good news
In preparation for Passover, the Friendship Fund provides assistance in the amount of approximately NIS 22 million. The aid will be given in different ways, to a quarter of a million elderly people, families and welfare children in Israel and the Diaspora.