CTech's Sunday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Israel’s online fraud industry targeted in rash of foreign enforcement actions. The latest is motion requesting a court in Florida impose a $75 million judgement against an online marketer who allegedly helped Israeli companies defraud victims. Read more

Apple hops on LGBT support wagon in Israel. Apple is the latest multinational to back the Israeli LGBT community in the widespread protests that broke out Wednesday, after the Israeli parliament approved a new surrogacy law that extends the right to use surrogate mothers to single mothers—but not to single fathers, in a move designed to bar the process from the country’s gay population. Read more 

Opinion: as investors, we couldn't get enough of Datorama. A clear market focus and aggressive scaling made Datorama an investor’ darling, writes Innovation Endeavors founding partner Rick Scanlon. Read more 

Opinion: Salesforce’s acquisition of Datorama is more important than Google acquiring Waze. Increasingly, Israel’s strong suit is not consumer-facing startups like Waze but SaaS companies like Datorama. Read more

Israel’s supreme court advises El Al to drop petition against Air India. In its petition, El Al asked the court to either secure permission for its airliners to pass over Saudi airspace or prohibit India’s national carrier from doing so during flights to and from Israel. Read more

Moody’s upgrades Israel’s outlook to positive. The change was based on Israel’s favorable fiscal outcomes, strong institutional framework and on its “increasingly resilient economy.” Read more

Funding rounds

Bosch leads $28 million round for AI-based recognition startup AnyVision. Read more

Video marketing company Eyeview raises $20 million in equity and debt financing. Read more 

Project management company Proggio raises $2 million. Read more