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Hack For Heroes: Building Rehab Platform For Wounded Troops
A Tel Aviv cybersecurity company and a Jerusalem-based non-profit have come together in a hackathon to improve the rehabilitation experience of wounded Israeli soldiers and others receiving the same therapies. Hilma, an organization of Israeli high-tech veterans channeling their know-how into the betterment of society, began working on a platform to improve the laborious manual […]
February 28, 2024
Stronger Seeds Could Counter Climate Change Food Insecurity
A swelling global population and the vagaries of climate change have left humanity scrambling for solutions for looming food insecurity. Realizing just how crucial it is to maximize the production of food staples, Israeli agritech company SaliCrop developed a way to protect seeds from adverse environmental factors, known as abiotic stresses, making it possible to […]
February 22, 2024
Startup Aims High With ‘Green’ Jet Fuel Made From Waste
Aviation is a notoriously environmentally unfriendly mode of transport, which, according to the European Union, is responsible for 14 percent of greenhouse gasses (GHG) produced by the sector. In fact, the EU says that if global aviation were a country, it would be in the top 10 of GHG producers. Israeli scientists, however, have now […]
February 21, 2024
Power Play: Energy Platform Adapts Iron Dome Tech To Optimize Grid
Going from development on Israel’s world famous Iron Dome missile defense system to maximizing energy usage might sound a little odd, but to Ron Halpern, chief commercial officer at mPrest, the software company behind the platform, the transition was a natural one. “Iron Dome essentially is a real-time distributed asset optimization system; the assets happened […]
February 19, 2024
Using AI-Made Models To Find Cures For Disease
To bring a new drug to market costs on average $1.3 billion, according to a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and takes up to 20 years. These astronomical sums do factor in the billions of dollars and years of research invested in what potentially promising therapies that ultimately lead nowhere, […]
February 14, 2024
Israeli Cherry Tomatoes That Dry Themselves In The Sun
Not only did Israeli scientists create the modern cherry tomatoes that are so popular worldwide, but now researchers at foodtech startup Supree have produced a strain of the fruit that even dries itself on the vine as it grows in the sun. “In tomatoes, there is a trait of tiny cracks called microcracking,” Supree VP […]
February 12, 2024
‘Stand-Up Nation’: Israeli High-Tech Shows Wartime Resilience, Renewal
It has been exactly four months since Israel declared war on the Hamas terrorist organization that ruled in Gaza; four months since Hamas terrorists stormed across the border and rampaged through southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 people and taking hundreds hostage. The immediate mass call-up of hundreds of thousands of […]
February 08, 2024
Antisemitism Watchdog Using AI To Counter Hate On Social Media
Instead of sympathy and understanding, the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history – when 1,200 people were murdered by Hamas on October 7, thousands more were wounded and hundreds were dragged into Gaza as hostages – was instantly followed by a massive explosion of global antisemitism. In the US, the Anti-Defamation League reported that antisemitic […]
February 06, 2024
New High-Tech Hub Is Making Israel’s Desert Bloom With Ingenuity
In his latter years, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion devoted his life to the development of the Negev Desert. “It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested,” Ben-Gurion declared in 1955. And seven decades later, that challenge has been met by a consortium […]
February 01, 2024
Personal Tragedy Leads To Help For Israeli PTSD Victims
After months of war, preceded by a horrific terror attack, Israeli mental health institutions are unsurprisingly concerned about the psychological toll on the nation’s citizens. And one teen who had seen the terrible effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) up close was determined to do her part to help. At least 1,200 people were brutally murdered […]
January 28, 2024
Anti-Fraud Software Stops Fake Websites Stealing Financial Data
How do you quickly stop malicious actors from hijacking your website and recreating your online identity to steal from your users and clients? This is an issue, commonly known as phishing, that plagues reputable companies as they struggle to swiftly locate and terminate websites that copy their branding, imaging and reputation in order to lure […]
January 24, 2024
Technology Gives A Voice To Those With Speech Disabilities
By the time Sara Smolley was born, her grandmother was unable to talk to her. She had been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s disease at the age of just 40, which stripped her of much of her motor capabilities. “More than anything, it was her speech that was impacted,” says Smolley, the co-founder and VP […]
January 22, 2024
Unique Sensor Offers Safe Solution For Tricky Intestinal Procedure
An Israeli startup has come up with a unique solution for a challenging medical procedure to treat problems in the bile duct, whose difficulty of execution can often lead to complications. The bile duct is a tube-like structure that carries bile from the liver, where it is produced, to the small intestine, where it is […]
January 18, 2024
Hacking Traditional Ethiopian Superfood To Make Instant Bread
A former Israel Defense Forces officer is determined to enrich the diet of the combat soldiers he once trained by revolutionizing the recipe for traditional Ethiopian flatbread he ate at home growing up. Injera is a spongy, slightly sour flatbread made from the seeds of teff grass, a staple in the Ethiopian and Eritrean diet […]
January 16, 2024
Rallies & Replica Tunnels: Israel Marks 100 Days Of Hostage Hell
January 14 was the one hundredth day since Palestinian terrorists and their supporters smashed their way across the border from Gaza into southern Israel – brutally murdering, torturing and raping civilians and dragging hundreds of Israeli and foreign hostages back into the Hamas-run enclave. To mark 100 days of captivity for the 136 of their […]
January 14, 2024