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️ Postponement: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly considering delaying the upcoming Palestinian national elections slated for next month. Blocked: Facebook announced it identified and took down two clusters of hackers with ties to the Palestinian Authority intelligence services. At the Table: Iraq is mediating talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to develop warmer relations between the two countries, but little progress has been made so far.
️ Big Brother: Controversial Israeli cyber firm NSO Group reportedly held talks with Jordan to sell its spying technology to the government. Hospitalized: ZAKA founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, who was accused earlier this year of decades of sexual abuse, attempted to take his own life this morning and is in critical condition.
Start-Up Nation Central to launch new research and policy institute to sustain Israel’s competitive edge
Eugene Kandel, Paul Singer to co-chair institute; Uri Gabai to be CEO
Miri Davidovitz
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Start-Up Nation Central announced today the launch of a new economic and research policy institute focused on Israeli innovation. Eugene Kandel, the senior Israeli economist, will serve as the institute’s co-chair, he told
eJewishPhilanthropy. For the last six years, Kandel has served as CEO of Start-Up Nation Central, the Israel-based nonprofit that facilitates relationships between Israeli high-tech innovators and foreign companies and governments.
Kandel will become a senior advisor at Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), which will now commence a search for a new CEO. The institute’s other co-chair is Paul Singer, the American investor and philanthropist who founded SNC in 2013. The institute, whose name is yet to be determined, aims to sustain Israel’s long-term economic health by
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️ Foiled: Jordanian officialsarrested nearly two dozen people over the weekend in connection to a plot to overthrow King Abdullah II. Former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the king’s half brother, led the efforts and is now reportedly under house arrest.
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He’s Running: Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti registered to run in the Palestinian Authority election at the last minute, shaking up the first scheduled vote in the territories in 15 years.
⚕️ First Aid: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 85, is reportedly on his way to Germany to seek medical treatment. Looking Up: The New York Times’s Isabel Kershner explores life with a “green passport” in Israel’s “brave new post-pandemic future.”