2023年2月6日

以色列初創公司Verbit的首席執行官湯姆·利夫恩(Tom Livne)表示，他將離開以色列，以抗議總理本雅明·內塔尼亞胡(Benjamin Netanyahu)聯合政府提出的司法改革。Verbit是一家獨角獸公司，建立了基於人工智能的實時轉錄和配圖服務。利文這樣做是為了不再在以色列納稅。利夫恩說:“在過去幾年裏，我已經繳納了數千萬美元的稅款，我的公司繳納了數億美元的稅款。他補充說，如果以色列所有的商業領袖都采取類似的行動，那麼政府將別無選擇，隻能與他們接觸，並就司法改革問題聽取他們的意見。他說:“我希望別人看到我這樣做，跟著我離開以色列，停止納稅。這是解決辦法，也是傷害最大的辦法。”請幫助我們:你願意幫我們一把嗎?每一份禮物，無論大小，都是我們未來的燃料。您的重要貢獻使我們能夠保持獨立於股東或富有的所有者，使我們能夠不帶偏見地繼續報道。這意味著我們可以繼續為所有人提供《猶太商業新聞》。 Thank you. Founded in 2017 by Kobi Ben Tzvi, Sivan Cohen Pur, and Tom Livne, Verbit’s total investment to date exceeds $550 million (including secondary deals). Its valuation has more than doubled to $2 billion since the company raised $157 million in a Series D round in May. Verbit’s AI platform enables businesses to embrace digital transformation and operate more efficiently with tailored processes that fit their particular transcription and captioning demands. Tom Livine’s announcement came just a week after Israeli startup Papaya Global, a fintech unicorn that offers a cloud based platform for companies to handle their payrolls, decided to divest itself of Israeli banks due to the judicial reform plan proposed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. And that move came after the Governor of the Bank of Israel himself warned Netanyahu that the plan could harm foreign investment in Israel since it would weaken Israel’s democratic system. And major American firms like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have also expressed concerns about the future of Israel’s economy should the proposed judicial reform plan go through. The warning from JP Morgan came in the form of an internal memo titled “Israel Strategy: Domestic volatility flares up” that was revealed by Israeli media. The memo stated that “the volatility across Israeli local assets has notably increased recently, as renewed geopolitical tensions were added to investor concerns over the government’s potential judicial reforms.” Goldman Sachs, issued its own warning that the judicial reforms proposed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government could harm Israel’s economy and cause the Shekel to drop in value. Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government’s proposed judicial reform plan would dramatically curtail the powers of Israel’s Supreme Court and attorney general. So, opponents say that this would leave the government free to do whatever it wants in the absence of any oversight. In this article: