BUSINESS BRIEFS: Facebook’s market value has increased to over $200 billion, increasing founder Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth to around $34.5 billion. [Bloomberg] • Diller IAC’s Tinder settles fast with co-founder in harassment suit; Justin Manteen is no longer with the company [BuzzFeed] • Barry Rosenstein, founder of hedge fund Jana Partners, will be joining the board of directors of Walgreens, the company announced today. [NY Times] • Grand Central landlord Andrew Penson and his firm, Argent Ventures, are opposed to NYC plans requiring extensive rezoning of the area, which they claim would require taxpayers to “give away hundreds of millions of dollars in public rights without any transparency or public accounting.” [Capital New York]

STARTUP NATION: Israeli company LivePerson, which is used by major corporations such as Home Depot and Bank of America to connect customer service representatives in real-time, has just finished four years of consecutive quarterly growth. [Reuters] — Doctor-prescribed joints might one day become a relic of the past if Israeli cannabis technology venture Syqe Medical Ltd. has its way. [Wall Street Journal]

TALK OF OUR NATION: The deputy lord mayor of Cardiff, Wales, made comments suggesting that Hamas merely fired “toy rockets” into Israel during the recent conflict with Israel, causing Israel’s honorary consul to Wales to call for his resignation [Haaretz] • Also in Wales, President Obama urged Turkey’s president Tayyip Ergodan to address the rising tide of anti-Semitism in his country. [Times of Israel] • Fighting back against growing tides of anti-Semitism, German Jews are showing the locals that Jewish identity means more than remembering the Holocaust. Berliners are gearing up for the annual Jüdische Kulturtage, a festival of Jewish culture and heritage which, apart from ramped-up security, shows no signs of slowing down the annual celebration of good music, great food, abundant drinks, chic nightlife, and Jewish culture galore. [Deutsche Welle]

RISING STAR: “Growing up in New Orleans, Chloe Valdary kept kosher, studied the Jewish Bible and celebrated Jewish holidays with festive meals. In recent years she has become an outspoken pro-Israel campus activist, contributing regularly to the Jewish press, and speaking and posting widely about the merits of the Jewish state on social media.” [Times of Israel] [Jewish Journal]

INTERFAITH: “Meet the Muslims who sacrificed themselves to save Jews and fight Nazis in World War II” by Michael Wolfe: One of the jobs of documentary film is to rescue stories that fall out of the history books. Khan’s account, and others like it, seems at odds with the history of the modern Middle East, whose combatants — whether Arab, Turkish, Iranian or Israeli — may want for their own reasons to bury stories about Muslim-Jewish collaboration. But these tales should be remembered and honored. It is my sincere hope that with the story of Noor Inayat Khan, we have done just that.” [WashPost]

SPORTS BLINK: “Any activity of normalization in sports with the Zionist enemy is a crime against humanity,” said Jibril Rajoub, the deputy secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and the head of the Palestinian Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, concerning an upcoming series of soccer games in Southern Israel between over 600 Israeli and Palestinian children orgnized by the Peres Center for Peace. Many other Palestinian officials have held similar sentiments. [Times of Israel]

DESSERT: “Newcomers Enhance Bay Area’s Small Kosher Dining Scene” by Alix Wall: “San Francisco is widely considered one of the best dining destinations in the country, if not the world. That is, unless you keep kosher. If you observe the Jewish dietary laws– meaning the meat must be slaughtered according to Jewish law, and dairy and meat cannot be served in the same dish, and pork and shellfish are forbidden– it’s another story. Many Jewish tourists – and new Bay Area residents alike– are flummoxed to learn that there are only four actual kosher restaurants in the entire Bay Area, three of them Israeli-style meat, and one of them Chinese vegan, and even this is up for debate… In the past few years, a few entrepreneurial types have stepped in to expand the existing options. Not with brick-and-mortar establishments, but with delivery service and small-scale catering and pop-up dinners, looking to appeal to those kosher diners who are looking for something beyond the usual falafel and shwarma.” [KQED]

BIRTHDAYS: Actor-comedian Adam Sandler turns 48… Tech entrepreneur Ben Lang…