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Roni Dori

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מוסף 24.09.26

“We are not ready”: The psychologist preparing for alien disclosure

01.10.26|Roni Dori
Jennice Vilhauer says confirmation of non-human intelligence could trigger fear, confusion and a crisis of trust unless governments prepare people for the news
עו"ד ג'יימיסון פיירסטון

“My goal is to crash Russia’s economy - because I am a Russian patriot”

27.09.26|Roni Dori
The American-born lawyer Jamison Firestone who spent 18 years in Russia helped create the Magnitsky sanctions regime. Now he is campaigning to seize $300 billion in frozen Russian assets and use them to fund Ukraine.
קארה סווישר מוסף

Kara Swisher: “The connection between Donald Trump and the tech elite is an existential threat to humanity”

01.06.26|Roni Dori
The veteran tech journalist warns of a dangerous convergence of political power, money, and Silicon Valley influence shaping global decisions. In an exclusive interview with Calcalist, she summarizes what is important to understand about how narcissistic billionaires engage with the public, government, and media, and outlines the dangers we need to prepare for.
דור סקולר מייסד ומנכ"ל Intuition Robotics מוסף

The AI robot that fights loneliness

11.03.26|Roni Dori
Inspired by his grandfather’s struggle after losing his wife, Dor Skuler built ElliQ, an AI companion designed to bring conversation and connection back into the lives of older adults.
Sam Lamm holding Romulus, one of the cubs

"We took a 73,000-year-old fossil and created puppies from it. It's just magic"

02.06.25|Roni Dori
Biotech venture Colossal Biosciences stunned the world in April with the announcement that it had genetically engineered the dire wolf, a species that went extinct 12,500 years ago. But the excitement over the birth of three white puppies was quickly tempered by criticism: skeptics argued this was not a true species revival and warned that such investments could divert attention and resources from the urgent effort to protect existing wildlife. In an exclusive interview, founder Ben Lamm explains how the complex process was achieved, and why he believes it could ultimately benefit the planet.
מייקל לויט פרופסור חתן פרס נובל ל כימיה

Take it or Levitt: A Nobel Prize winner’s winding road to the top

09.02.25|Roni Dori
Prof. Michael Levitt talks about his unconventional life path, from childhood in South Africa with a single mother, emigrating to England, and finding logic in the chaos of nature.
שער מוסף שבועי 19.12.24

John Bolton: “Donald Trump unfit” to lead the nation

29.12.24|Roni Dori
John Bolton knows Donald Trump intimately, having served as his national security advisor. Now, after serving for 40 years in senior positions in both the administration and at the United Nations, it’s crucial for Bolton, a long-time Republican, to warn against the president-elect. Trump “sees things almost exclusively through the prism of his own self-interest” and, to get what he wants, will have no problem breaking agreements, igniting a trade war, and undermining order both at home and abroad. Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
מנהל הריצוף הגנטי ב בית החולים איכלוב זיו איטח אברמוביץ מאגר פסיפס

"The genome project will change the face of medicine in Israel and save human lives"

10.11.24|Roni Dori
Psifas is an ambitious new genome project aiming to create a genetic database of Israel’s citizens, with a budget of NIS 250 million. The collected information already provides information that will make it possible to treat life-threatening diseases in the subjects. The hope is that after accumulating 100,000 samples, the database will help jumpstart the biotech industry. CEO Prof. Gabi Barbash: "Psifas is a great achievement and advantage for Israel, which aspires to become a global hub of biotechnological information."
Rita Katz

“I have no doubt that Donald Trump is anti-Semitic”

01.11.24|Roni Dori
Rita Katz, whose father was hanged on charges of espionage in Iraq, has been the head of an American intelligence group that monitors and infiltrates extremist organizations, from Muslim jihadists to Christian alt-right movements, for 20 years. In a rare interview, she comes out of the shadows and warns the Jews of the United States: "Trump is the main culprit in the tsunami of anti-Semitism in the country. If he is elected, hatred against Jews will increase."
פוטין במצעד צבאי במוסקבה, מאי

Bringing down dictators: "Contrary to myth, tyrants are fragile. Most fall in the end"

21.10.24|Roni Dori
Dr. Marcel Dirsus has studied dictators, from Ceausescu to Gaddafi to Putin, and concludes they are less strong and stable than we think. In a new book, he explains that each of them has a weak point, and that "even if the price is heavy there is room for hope. These people can be brought down, and sometimes it happens in an instant." 
דר נעמי לנדאו הלברטל

"Hamas used rape to break up the entire Israeli community"

02.10.24|Roni Dori
A feminist gender researcher, a religious woman with a headscarf, and a settler who demonstrates against settler violence, Dr. Nomi Halbertal Landau has been researching sexual violence in the context of genocide, from Rwanda to Bosnia. Now she explains why the events of October 7 requires us to go out not only against the terrorists, but also against the entire patriarchy
מוסף שבועי 30.5.24 האחים אודי ענבי ו רועי ענתבי הבעלים של סטארט אפ לעיבודי מוסיקה בבינה מלאכותית

Music to their ears: Pop hit-producing brothers harness the power of AI

05.06.24|Roni Dori
After two big exits with high-tech companies, and after producing some of the biggest music hits of the last few years in Israel, the Antebi brothers are ready to connect the two worlds, and make musical technology, or technological music, with AI tools that should make each of us a music producer.
מוסף שבועי 16.5.24 סקוט גלוואי

Scott Galloway: "When it comes to hate against Jews, freedom of speech is absolute"

21.05.24|Roni Dori
NYU professor Scott Galloway is a successful entrepreneur, business guru, branding expert, best-selling author, and podcast host - but in recent months he is one of the sharpest and most influential voices in the fight against anti-Semitism. In an in-depth interview with Calcalist he talks about the reasons for standing at the front of the struggle, the despair of America's youth, and where it’s all heading
פרופ' שי דוידאי לאחר שנחסמה כניסתו ל אוניברסיטת קולומביה 22.4.24

"I prefer to be unemployed than continue working at a university with Hamas supporters"

24.04.24|Roni Dori
“I am very worried for the Jewish students. People are injecting terror into the campus,” says Prof. Shai Davidai, whose entrance to Columbia University was blocked amid the tumultuous anti-Israel demonstrations
מוסף שבועי 15.2.24 בריאן ג'ונסון bryan johnson ג׳ונסון במכונת אנליזה לפגעי עור

Forever young? Multi-millionaire believes he can beat death

22.02.24|Roni Dori
111 nutritional supplements a day, a hat that shoots laser beams into his head, blood transfusions from his teenage son, and 30 researchers who analyze him 24/7: Bryan Johnson, a multi-millionaire who made his fortune selling a payment application, is convinced that he can beat death, or at least live another 200 years
שי סגל משקפי ויז'ן פרו של אפל

“We could very quickly find ourselves in a world where reality is controlled by tech corporations”

19.02.24|Roni Dori
Augmented reality is like magic that offers endless options. But for Apple, which recently launched the Vision Pro, this is just another avenue to extract more and more information from us. And if we are not careful, explains AR expert Shay Segal, "we could lose touch with reality"
מוסף שבועי 4.1.24 מצעד חמאס ב חאן יונס 2021

Show me their money: Bringing down Hamas through their pockets

04.01.24|Roni Dori
Dr. Matthew Levitt, one of the world's leading terrorist financing researchers, explains why Israel must demand sanctions, even indirect ones, on the financing of Hamas; why we failed when we allowed Qatar to transfer funds to the terrorist organization and how the comparison made between ISIS and Hamas only "causes Israel to lose support because it’s stupid"
עודד גור לביא מייסד ומנכ"ל הסטארט אפ NT TAO

"The turning point in the fight against Houthi terrorism came when they attacked the energy sector"

01.01.24|Roni Dori
Oded Gour-Lavie, CEO of the start-up NT-Tao and a former senior officer in Israel’s Navy, believes that the real solution to the Houthi threat is to go on the offensive. He also speaks of Israel's need to develop technology for the production of green energy, despite the large gas reserves discovered off its coast
מוסף שבועי 16.11.23 איור חייל מלחמת עזה

Amidst battle fatigue, Israeli soldiers find relief in unique resilience-building dialogues

04.12.23|Roni Dori
Moments after they've left Gaza and moments before they return to it, IDF soldiers engage in group discussions with therapists, talking about their fears, guilt, and lack of motivation, reconnecting with their friends and commanders, and learning to find strength to continue. The members of the association who accompany them describe the complex coping mechanisms in the field, as well as those of the parents and partners who participate in wartime support groups
מלחמה בעזה חרבות ברזל כוחות צה"ל בעוטף עזה 22.10.23

"This is probably the first AI war"

22.10.23|Roni Dori
Bot armies that anyone can activate on WhatsApp, software to easily hack photos, and chatbots that generate news that didn't happen: media expert Dr. Alex Gekker explains how the decline of Twitter and the rise of artificial intelligence changed everything in the battle of advocacy
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