CTech's Wednesday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Tech gone too far? lawmakers seek to curb police surveillance of suspected Covid-19 patients. Israeli parliament Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee pushing new bill meant to replace temporary regulations that authorized widespread use of digital tracking. Read more

Number of Covid-19 cases drops in Israel for the seventh straight day. A total of 14,326 people have been diagnosed for coronavirus in Israel to date, but the number of recoveries has exceeded the number of new diagnoses each day over the past week. Read more

The economic crisis will kill more people than the virus, warns Israeli HMO head. The CEO of Israeli health maintenance organization Maccabi Healthcare Services Ran Saar spoke with Calcalist about the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

Struggling tech sector moves from cutbacks to layoffs. The industry is seeing a spike in firings as investors urge companies to tighten their belts. After cutting back on industry-standard perks, startups are taking a further step and reducing their human capital. Read more

Israel Aerospace Industries and Brook Aviation to help VIPs rise above the traffic. Flights to depart from Israel Aerospace Industries complex in Lod, with IAI responsible for maintenance and Brook providing and flying the helicopters. Read more

 

Corona Q&A | The Israeli tech sector is extremely robust and so are the measures put in place by the government, says exec. Yaron Morgenstern, CEO of customer analytics startup Glassbox, answered six questions about the Covid-19 crisis and its effects on the Israeli tech sector. Read more

OurCrowd to back Israeli Covid-19 vaccine company in $12 million round. MigVax intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and bring it to the market. Read more

 

Canadian hospitals to use Israeli-made tech to protect medical staff. Binah.ai’s technology enables the extraction of vital signs measurements based on the analysis of a video taken from the upper cheek skin region of a human face. Read more