"Recently, everyone has been talking about the possibility of investors' money fleeing the country, and I actually wanted to emphasize something else," says medical device entrepreneur and pioneer of the Israeli medical aesthetics industry Dr. Shimon Eckhouse. "Entrepreneurship grows out of a sense of freedom. When people have no freedom of thought, they don't think. It's true, Hungary, Russia and Turkey also have entrepreneurship, but about a thousandth of what there is in Israel, and not by chance." Eckhouse participated last week in a protest by high-tech companies in Yokne’am against the judicial reforms being advanced by Justice Minister Yariv Levin. Says Eckhouse, "Thirty years ago, when I raised funds for ESC Medical (later Lumenis), about $30 million of venture capital was being invested in Israel. Today - about $100 billion. We’ve all benefitted from this crazy growth to the point of becoming dependent on it. The money came mainly from...
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A Vulnerable Power Grid Is In The Crosshairs Of Domestic Extremist Groups
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A Vulnerable Power Grid Is In The Crosshairs Of Domestic Extremist Groups Gunshots fired at two power substations in Moore County, North Carolina, late last year left 45,000 homes and businesses without power and more attacks just like that could already be planned by domestic extremist groups, according to experts. “All of a sudden, about 8:45 p.M., about 20 shots fired off right across the street,” Spencer Matthews told CNN affiliate WRAL shortly after the December attack. The gunfire hit critical parts of the substations and the power went out. “Got no way to heat because we don’t have a fireplace,” one woman told WRAL after her home was plunged into darkness. Investigators found nearly two dozen shell casings from a high-powered rifle near the substations, but so far have not found a gun or made any arrests. Experts say the two substation attacks could be the work of domestic extremists who have openly advocated targeting a vulnerable power system. Attacking the power grid to...