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Stratos Ventures has raised $50 million for defensetech push as global demand for Israeli startups surges. The fund plans to invest in 15-20 startups founded by Israeli entrepreneurs or companies with strong ties to Israel, with initial investments ranging between $2 million and $4 million.

Israel’s , which developed a work management and operating platform for organizations, is launching a venture investment arm and allocating up to $200 million to the initiative. Monday Ventures has already invested in several Israeli AI startups.

In Jerusalem, implementation of the Light Rail system is proceeding apace with the opening of the 7km Green Line from Mahane Yehuda to Malka in the south. It is intended that Jerusalem will become an accessible and advanced city, similar to capitals and major cities around the world.

JobFox is a side project of Nir Kosover, co-Founder and CPO of Scalefox.ai to properly index the job market, which up until now has lacked a comprehensive map. Kosover says, "Plenty of companies don't post all the jobs to LinkedIn. We have close to 16,000 jobs already"

The international rating firm Start-up Genome has ranked Tel Aviv fourth among global cities in the worldwide start-up ecosystem list, with a valuation of $250 billion. Only Silicon Valley, New York and London were valued higher. It analyzed 5.5 million companies in 71 countries.

The deal for the Spyder system, worth over €2 billion, is the second largest defense sale ever by an Israel company, after IAI’s Arrow 3 deal with Germany for $3.5 billion. (See previously)

Mastercard has partnered Israel’s Neema (see previously) whereby the global money transfer platform Mastercard Move will use Neema's technological infrastructure to enable businesses and individuals abroad to transfer money to Israel in real time. It bypasses SWIFT intermediaries.

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Israel’s is acquiring U.S.-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to . US-Israeli Doit has acquired Israel’s for an estimated . UK’s Circeus has acquired Israel’s for . US Ondas has acquired Israel’s for . US Cribl has acquired Israel’s for around . Munich Re is acquiring Israel’s for .

Israel’s Nanovel (see previously) has been awarded a €2.5 million ($2.9 million) grant from the European Innovation Council to accelerate development and commercialization of autonomous robots designed to harvest citrus fruit,