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Follow Apr. 11, 2021 A new Israeli venture capital fund called Type5 is in the process of raising $110 million to invest in space-technology startups, a sector that VC investors in Israel have generally avoided as being too risky. As a result, space technology is relatively undeveloped in Israel. Lior Herman, a founding partner of the fund, is determined to end that. “Israel is already known as Startup Nation, but we need to become Space Nation,” Herman said. “Space is a new industrial-economic era, whose impact Israel cannot ignore if it is to remain innovative.” LISTEN: On trial and struggling to cobble a coalition, bankrupt Bibi is teetering on the brink ....