Sustenance

• With only 15% of the nation's restaurants currently open due to the ongoing war, brothers and owners of Ha'Achim, Asaf Doktor and Yotam Doktor, issued a heartfelt call for "helpers'' via social media.
• There has been an overwhelming response from citizens, with hundreds volunteering daily to support survivors, families, and others affected by the conflict.
• The partnership collaborates with 118 restaurants and food suppliers across Israel to deliver thousands of freshly cooked meals to those in need, including soldiers, evacuees, wounded, and struggling families.
• Please contribute to our GoFundMe campaign, whether you reside in Israel or abroad your donation can make a significant impact.

• Gartner, Inc. today announced its list of 10 top strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2024.
• “Technology disruptions and socioeconomic uncertainties require willingness to act boldly and strategically enhance resilience over ad hoc responses,” said Bart Willemsen , VP Analyst at Gartner.
• This year's top strategic technology trends highlight those trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity for CIOs and other IT leaders within the next 36 months.
• Gartner clients can read more in the Gartner Special Report “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2024.”

• MEDELLÍN, Colombia, Oct. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TerraPay, a leading global payments network and Bancolombia, Colombia's largest player of remittances announced the signing of their contract.
• "It is not a minor figure: thanks to these agreements, Bancolombia is positioned as the largest payer of remittances in Colombia.
• This new agreement with TerraPay will multiply these flows, especially with an ally capable of innovating with its solutions and infrastructure," says Cristina Arrastía, Vice President of Business at Bancolombia.
• Paula Andrea Valle, Director - South America, TerraPay said, "The agreement between the two companies is extremely important.

• Little is known, however, about the pathways of these migrations.
• Our evidence suggests this valley had a riverine and wetland zone that would have provided ideal passage for hunter-gatherers as they moved out of Africa and deep into the Levant and Arabia.

Wandering out of Africa

• Researchers hypothesise humans migrating out of Africa would have used platforms in the eastern Sahara, the Nile River Valley, or the margins of the western Red Sea.
• From there, these small bands of hunter-gatherers would have passed into the Sinai – a land bridge connecting Africa with the rest of Asia – following migrating animals and hunting a variety of them for sustenance.
• For many of these hunter-gatherers, the next stop on the journey would have been the southern portion of the Jordan Rift Valley.

When Arabia was a verdant land

• Our findings from sedimentary sections ranging 5 to 12 metres in thickness showed ecosystem fluctuations over time, including cycles of dry and humid environments.
• We also found evidence for the presence of ancient rivers and wetlands.
• Luminescence dating showed the sedimentary environments formed between 125,000 and 43,000 years ago, suggesting there had been multiple wet intervals.
• Towards the south, fieldwork in northern Saudi Arabia has also demonstrated a network of rivers and lakes was once present in the region.

Multiple migrations into South-West Asia

• Our findings from the Jordan Rift Valley indicate there were multiple early human migrations from Africa, and into Asia, during favourable conditions.
• Our results also suggest, together with the Levantine and Arabian evidence, that hunter-gatherers used inland river and wetland systems as they crossed South-West Asia.
• Although ancient DNA evidence indicates Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans multiple times as they spread into Asia, on-the-ground evidence for these encounters has generally been lacking.