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An Israeli startup has created an artificial “nose” that can quickly sniff out decay-causing bacteria in food – telling us whether or not it is safe to eat.  Sensifi, which was established in 2021, uses sensors to detect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by bacteria commonly found in foods, such as listeria, salmonella and E. […]

Walking stealthily through a school as shooters run rampant, members of a security force are charged with locating and neutralizing them. The sounds of gunfire ringing in their ears, the security forces carefully make their way from classroom to classroom, meticulously avoiding innocents and picking their way across bodies of victims scattered throughout the building.  […]

An Israeli company providing a data management platform for cloud computing can go back in time within its system, potentially stopping businesses from falling prey to ransomware attacks that threaten their internal security and sensitive information.  Ransomware is a form of cyberattack in which a hacker takes control of an individual or organization’s data and […]

An engineering student has a solution to the shortage of certain equipment for Israel Defense Forces soldiers – he prints it in 3D. And so far, he has produced tens of thousands of items for the troops.  When Palestinian terror group Hamas rampaged through southern Israel on October 7 last year, brutally murdering 1,200 people […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]