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Afik & Co. commemorates the date of birth of the first computer programmer, the English mathematician and writer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852). She wrote a program for the Analytical Engine, a mechanical computer invented by Charles Babbage that was never actually built. Her notes on the engine include what is recognized as the very first algorithm.

Boots on The Ground, Eyes on the Field

& Co. marks the date of birth of Uruguayen football legend Héctor Pedro Scarone Berreta (26 November 1898 - 04 April 1967) - three times world champion (1924, 1927, 1930) and known as El Mago ("the Magician").

Who owns the cloud?

Afik & Co. marks the date of birth of German author Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 - 28 August 1995), best know for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story.

Who’s for Academic Justice?

Afik & Co. marks the date of first ever synthesis of an oral contraceptive: progestin norethisterone (October 15, 1951) by Mexican scientist Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (March 16, 1925 - September 13, 2004) under the supervision of Carl Djerassi and the direction of George Rosenkranz at Syntex laboratory in Mexico City.

Israel’s AI Opportunities in Latin America’s Smart Cities Versus Legal Risks

Afik & Co. marks the date of first ever synthesis of an oral contraceptive: progestin norethisterone (October 15, 1951) by Mexican scientist Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (March 16, 1925 - September 13, 2004) under the supervision of Carl Djerassi and the direction of George Rosenkranz at Syntex laboratory in Mexico City.

Director as a Compliance Officer – The Proactive Supervision Duty on the Way to Israel

Afik & Co. marks the birthday of Israeli biochemist Aharon Ciechanover (October 01, 1947), who, with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

Summoned to the police station – It really isn’t for a cup of coffee and a cake!

Article about a diplomacy and business event of the Ibero-American Department at Afik & Co. 08.09.2025

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Peruvian professional footballer Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández (May 20, 1913 - September 17, 1997), an idol of the Universitario de Deportes club and the Peruvian Peruvian First Division, and champion, best player and top scorer in the 1939 Copa América.

Stop everything, wait for me! – On Interim Orders and Freeze of Engagements in Tenders

Afik & Co. mourns the passing of attorney Ram Caspi (19 August 1939 - 29 August 2025), one of the greats of Israeli law and under which Doron Afik, Esq. had the great honour of working during his early years as a lawyer. May he rest in peace and may all follow his amicable and just approach to law, justice and governance.

Dreaming of getting married and doing an Aliyah? Here are a few things to consider

Diario Judío México – El Diario de la vida judía en México y el Mundo – Article about a diplomatic event to celebrate Uruguay’s Independence Day, with the participation of Afik & Co.

Afik & Co. marks the date of birth of Swedish chemist, considered one of the fathers of the science of chemistry, Jöns Jacob Berzelius (August 20, 1779 - August 7, 1848), who invented modern chemical notation.

“Time Is Money” is not always the moto – When the Israeli Clock Meets the Latin-American Pace

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Brazilian author Jorge Leal Amado de Faria[ (10 August 1912 - 06 August 2001).

Privacy, DPO and what’s in the Amendment

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of British singer Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 - 23 July 2011).

The Options Following the Last Option – On Divorce and Options

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390 - July 09, 1441), one of the greatest painters of all time and one of the first to paint with oil paints.

From Pandorogate to Smotrich and Regev – Influencers and Covert Campaigns

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Argentinian classical music composer Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (April 11, 1916 - June 25, 1983), considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of Latin America.

Why make an Israeli will even when there is already a will?

Afik & Co. salutes, on the anniversary of his demise, the Angel of Budapest, Righteous Among the Nations, Ángel Sanz-Briz (September 28, 1910 - June 11, 1980), who, during his service as a Spanish diplomat in Budapest commencin 1942, worked to save the lives of many thousands of Jews unilizing the powers of the Spanish Embassy. The world will always be in his debt.

I Promised to try, But I Didn’t Promise to Succeed …

The Marker – Adi Keizman appeals to the Supreme Court the ruling that obligated him to pay ILS 11 million to Rani Rahav

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Chilean biologist, philosopher, and neuroscientist Francisco Javier Varela Garcia (September 07, 1946 - May 28, 2001).

A little about trusts, real estate and taxation

Afik & Co. marks the independence day of Paraguay (14 of May).

Emily in Ecuador

Yedioth Ahronoth: Article about the launch event of the Latin-American department of Afik & Co.

Afik & Co. marks the date of birth of Colombian novelist poet and author Germán Espinosa Villareal (April 30, 1938 - October 17, 2007) and the date of demise of American novelist poet and author Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 - April 30, 2024).

(Too) Deepseek – on Privacy challenges posed by the 2025 AI Model

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Argentinian mathematician Alberto Pedro Calderón (September 14, 1920 - April 16, 1998) Wolf Prize Laureate in Mathematics 1989 “for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to and important problems in partial differential equations.”

Who’s the boss? Employer responsibility regarding foreign employees

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Chilean football legend Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros (25 April 1936 - 02 April 2022), one of the Best South American Footballers of the 20th Century.

About Avocados and Business between Latin-America and Israel

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise of Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December, 1917 - 19 March, 2008) who was an English physicist, mathematician, science fiction writer, science writer and inventor.

MiCA, Who the F is MiCA?

Afik & Co. marks the day of birth of Professor Daniel Kahneman (March 05, 1934 - March 27, 2024), the Israeli cognitive psychologist whose research was groundbreaking in the fields of psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, and who is the 2002 Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences.

The Legal Process for Settling Disputes in Israel: Litigation vs. Mediation

Afik & Co. marks the day of demise of German fashion designer Karl Otto Lagerfeld (10 September 1933 - 19 February 2019), creative director of the fashion houses Fendi (1965 - 2019), Chanel (1983 - 2019), Karl Lagerfeld (1984 - 2019) and others.

“Until an Insolvency Do Us Part…”

Afik & Co. marks the Mexican Constitution Day (February 05), which commemorates the day on which Mexico's current constitution was promulgated, February 05, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution.

Whose line is this Any way?

Afik & Co. marks the date of demise the Jewish-American physicist Arno Allen Penzias (April 26, 1933 - January 22, 2024), 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation together with Robert Woodrow Wilson in 1964, thus giving confirmation of the Big Bang theory - a discovery that is considered central to the science of astronomy.

I Want to Control My Destiny – Lasting Power of Attorney for a Nursing Patient