NEW DELHI — In 2018, 82 women climbed the Cannes’ Palais des Festivals’ steps — a striking statement by the French gender parity movement 5050×2020 against inequality in the movie industry. That image remains entrenched in the mind of Indian film producer Guneet Monga. On April 13, Monga, at 37, became one of the youngest film producers to be conferred the French honor Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans I’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) for her contribution to world cinema and her efforts towards women empowerment through her recently founded cinema collective Indian Women Rising. “It feels like life has come…
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CHENNAI, India — When Amazon India was getting ready to announce a $250-million venture fund to digitize small and medium businesses on April 15, about 600,000 traders were getting together to launch an attack against foreign e-commerce platforms for “exploiting policy loopholes”. While Amazon’s event ‘Smbhav’ (possible) is a four-day virtual summit and will be on till April 18, the protest event ‘Asmbhav’ (impossible) was a day-long affair. Some of the retailer groups that put together the agitation were All-India Mobile Retailers Association, All India Online Vendors Association, and Public Response Against Helplessness and Action for Redressal. The sellers’ event was hosted online, too.…
Higher background radiation levels lead to lower levels of lung, pancreatic and colon cancers in both American men and women, as well as lower rates of brain and bladder cancers in men, according to a new study in Biogerontology by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Nuclear Research Center Negev scientists. In fact, the study found life expectancy increased with exposure to higher natural radiation levels. The data they crunched came from the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s radiation dose calculator from all 3,129 U.S. counties; U.S. cancer statistics; and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of…
DELHI, India — Since farmers started protests against three farm laws at the borders of India’s national capital territory of Delhi over four months ago, 23-year-old Gurjot Kaur has been visiting one of the agitation sites every day with her family to do acts of service known as sewa. Sewa has been canonized in Sikh scriptures and followed by members of the community, which is miffed with the government’s September 2020 move to deregulate the agricultural sector. In hopes that the fight will protect farmers’ income and lands, many Sikh families like Gurjot’s and other volunteers have kept the protests alive by…
Israel may have reached herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, say experts from its largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center. Herd immunity happens when a sufficient percentage of a population has immunity — either through vaccination or having recovered from the disease — and gives indirect protection to those who aren’t immune. The immunity level needed for herd immunity is calculated based on the transmission rate of the virus. For SARS-CoV-2 it is estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent, says Dr. Eyal Leshem, director of Sheba’s Institute for Travel & Tropical Medicine. Approximately 56% of Israel’s 9.2 million citizens are…
A plant-based, non-soy, non-genetically modified formula for toddlers, invented in Israel by Else Nutrition, will be distributed in more than 30,000 retail outlets across the United States. That follows a distribution agreement signed with United Natural Foods (UNFI). “As a strategic partner for growth, UNFI is fundamental,” said Else Nutrition’s CEO-cofounder, Hamutal Yitzhak. “Their deep roots in the natural-food ecosystem, coupled with exceptional relationships with retail accounts of all sizes and types, positions us for exponential reach and accessibility.” UNFI operates out of 58 distribution centers nationwide and records an annual revenue of $20 billion. (Photo courtesy of Else Nutrition) …
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face meetings were halted and conducting business virtually became the new normal. But video-conferencing platforms can’t fully replace the personal experience, particularly for sales professionals. They often require multiple in-person meetings and engaging, multifaceted product demonstrations before closing a sale. Plus, at this point, many are suffering from Zoom fatigue. Tel Aviv-based VidiPlus created a solution. It just came out with cross-platform, virtual presentation software to make video conferencing more compelling, offering 3D visuals, slideshows, web browsers and videos appearing in real time next to the presenter in the same frame. Presenters can…
Humans were predators for about 2 million years, introducing vegetation into their diet only when larger animals went extinct and animal food sources declined toward the end of the Stone Age, claims a paper published in the Yearbook of the American Physical Anthropology Association by archeologists Miki Ben-Dor and Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University, with Raphael Sirtoli of the University of Minho, Portugal. “So far, attempts to reconstruct the diet of Stone Age humans were mostly based on comparisons to 20th-century hunter-gatherer societies,” said Ben-Dor. “This comparison is futile, however, because 2 million years ago, hunter-gatherer societies could hunt…
Travel to Israel is set to recommence after news the Israeli Health Ministry will allow groups of vaccinated foreigners into the country, starting on May 23. Tourists who want to visit Israel will have to undergo a PCR COVID-19 test before their flight, and another PCR and a serological test when they leave Ben Gurion Airport to check they have either been vaccinated or have had the coronavirus. Limits will be placed on the number of tourists able to enter the country each day, and they will need to travel in organized groups. “Israel is the first vaccinated state, and…
When Eran Amir and his husband wanted to start a family, they faced an overwhelming number of options and no one-stop shop to compare agencies offering the various tools of the fertility trade: surrogacy, egg and sperm donation, IVF clinics. There was no central database, no reviews or ratings, no transparent price lists. That was unacceptable for Amir, especially given that conceiving a child with help from fertility providers can easily run up to $200,000 — and insurance, at least in the United States, where Amir is based, doesn’t cover much in the way of expenses. For Amir, a 25-year…