It’s a presenter’s worst nightmare: after fiddling with the PowerPoint for weeks, the big day arrives, everyone gathers in the conference room, and dozens of expectant eyes stare down at you. But the computer won’t boot. And it suddenly dawns on you — with a shudder — that you don’t have any backup.
Luckily for Israeli […]

The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman recently described Israeli entrepreneur and electric car visionary Shai Agassi as the “Jewish Henry Ford.” Ford, a notorious anti-Semite, must be rolling over in his grave.
Agassi, 40, may better be likened to a modern-day Thomas Edison. Just as Edison is credited with “inventing” the light bulb, Agassi may one […]

What a difference a decade makes.
In 1998, when Philadelphia attorney Clifford Goldstein wanted to cash in on the staggering increase in Israeli technology stocks, he was disappointed to discover that no index-based mutual funds of Israeli companies existed.
“Wall Street is slow,” Goldstein says, noting that top brokerage firms he approached “told me they didn’t want […]