CTech's Thursday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Medtronic to acquire nutrition data startup Nutrino to boost diabetes offering. Tel Aviv-based Nutrino cross-references personal data with existing databases and research to create personalized nutrition recommendations. Read more Israeli defense contractor IAI builds laser cannon. Israel planned to use a laser technology to defend against long and short-range threats, but a development project was stopped in its tracks over a decade ago, and Iron Dome was developed instead. Read more

Tel Aviv is lousy with millionaires, report says. Israel’s business and culture capital came in sixth in a global list of millionaires per square mile, published recently by U.K. electronics company R.S. Components Limited. Read more

Life science investment firm Pontifax raises a $170 million fund. The firm’s new fund, its sixth, will focus on credit loans to pharmaceutical companies planning to go public. Read more

Electronics 3D printer company Nano Dimension wants to raise $29 million on Nasdaq. The Tel Aviv and Nasdaq-listed company submitted a public offering prospectus to the SEC Wednesday. Read more

Israeli-American teen convicted of bomb threats hoax gets 10-years in jail. In June, the so-called JCC hoax bomber was convicted of making thousands of bomb threats against airlines, hospitals, schools, and Jewish institutions. Read more

Following a measles outbreak, Israeli parliament pushes forward anti-anti-vaxxing bills. A measles outbreak in Israel that started in March has since spread to ultra-Orthodox communities in New York. Read more

News Briefs

Rare banknote from British-occupied Palestine to be auctioned in Jerusalem. Read more

Israeli cannabis reform still entangled in red tape. Read more

Low-cost airline Ryanair announces Tel Aviv to Thessaloniki route. Read more