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Brian Blum

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I am a writer, editor and freelance journalist living in Israel. My new book TOTALED is now available on Amazon. amzn.to/2vzAcQ1

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Business and technology journalist Brian Blum is the author of TOTALED: The Billion-Dollar Crash of the Startup that Took on Big Auto, Big Oil and the World --- a real-life high-tech "whodunnit" where the mystery to be solved is who (or what) killed the Israeli electric car company Better Place, one of the most promising Israeli startups in history.

Brian Blum has covered all sides of the high-tech revolution. His articles about companies -- and the people, behavior and sometimes astonishing ev…

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Israel: land of milk, honey and medical cannabis

Israel: land of milk, honey and medical cannabis

In August, a joint feasibility committee of the Health and Finance ministries submitted a recommendation that…

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The electric car lovers who kept plugging along after Better Place died

The electric car lovers who kept plugging along after Better Place died

One of Israel's biggest startup flops left behind a community of people who refused to end their flirtation w…

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Skeptical of alternative medicine, I took a leap on Chinese tonics and paid the price - opinion

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As my medical maladies started mounting up, I did something I never do. I turned to alternative medicine. Chinese herbs in particular. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with complementary medicine. I’ve never gotten much out of acupuncture in the past. Massage feels good but doesn’t last. Homeopathy seems more Western than complementary but was devised before scientists understood germ theory, which makes me wary. When I was in my 20s, I was more of a traditional medicine contrarian.
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Living in limbo land: Navigating health scares, medical uncertainty - opinion

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| The Jerusalem Post Verified
‘You look pregnant,” my daughter Merav joked upon seeing my belly when my T-shirt rode up during a session of YouTube home yoga. “That’s exactly how I feel sometimes,” I replied, even though I have no idea what it feels like to be pregnant. But my abdomen was bloated, round, and surprisingly shiny. It made it hard to walk and breathe, as it impinged on my diaphragm. The bloating had come on too quickly to simply be a matter of overeating.
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'The Baroness Rothschild': A moving tribute to jazz and friendship - review

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| The Jerusalem Post Verified
Pannonica Rothschild, baroness from a branch of the wealthiest family in the world at the time, had a not-so-well-kept secret: she loved jazz. The former Kathleen Annie Pannonica was born in 1913. She grew up in Hertfordshire, England. When we meet her, it’s the early 1950s, and the baroness’s formal role was to smile at grand openings and accompany her husband Jules at various state dinners and parties as the “pretty face” of the family’s money and status.
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