The current situation in the Ukraine took centre stage as diplomats from over 30 countries came to have coffee and strategize about the future of the country, as The 10th Bar Ilan Ambassadors Forum convened.
It’s hard to determine if the winning formula for the crisis in the Ukraine is going to come out of this forum, but what is certain is getting representatives from so many countries into one room is truly a step in the right direction.
The latest Israeli Start-Up Exit of the popular messaging app, Viber, to a Japanese company definitely symbolizes a change in the fact that not only big American and European companies are interested in Israeli technology. So we wanted to find out if the Start-Up Nation on a verge of an Asian invasion? So turns out Rakuten is just the first of the Asian companies who are now interested in Israeli technology. It is even more fascinating to follow this new trend as the reason most Asian companies decided to refrain from going into the Israeli market was the Arab Boycott which threatened them from losing a lot of revenues.
i24news’s Morning Edition with guest host Yeal Wissner Levy for March 3rd, 2014.
Ron Jacobsohn discusses the big winners (and losers) at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. There was no clear cut winner as the wealth was spread among several movies and the most memorable moment of the evening was not a winner but rather Ellen’s selfie which broke all Twitter records.
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i24news’s Morning Edition with guest host Yael Wissner-Levi for February 28th, 2014.
Ron Jacobsohn tries to predicts the winners at the 86th Academy Awards, which will be held in Hollywood this weekend among the shoo-ins are Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto from the Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmin and Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave.
i24news’ Morning Edition with guest host Yael Wissner-Levy for February 24th, 2014.
Ron Jacobsohn discusses an end of an era with the demise of MoviePhone, which was forever iconized on Seinfeld, NBC’s re-boot of the Heroes franchise, Alec Baldwin’s anger issues, Sam Worthington’s problems with the law and Dennis Rodman’s adventure in North Korea, which might become a movie.