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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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Foodtech companies may have honed the taste and the look of meat alternatives, but they have yet to perfect the texture or production costs, research shows. Presented with this pair of pressing issues, Israeli artificial intelligence expert Noa Weiss created the GreenProtein AI non-profit, which analyzes data gathered from multiple food firms to improve the production […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that what you see when browsing dating apps is not always what you get. Images are filtered, biographies are embellished and even personal details like age and height are tweaked, often leaving those looking for love disappointed and disillusioned.  Veteran Israeli real estate entrepreneur Guy Tzuberi is determined to […]

With thousands of wounded soldiers needing rehab and physiotherapy due to the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza, Israel’s medical institutions and organizations are adapting existing advanced technology to help them on the journey back to health.  One of these innovators is Kemtai, an AI-powered virtual physiotherapist whose motion tracking software guides patients as they […]

When hundreds of thousands Israel Defense Forces reservists were called up in October to wage war on Hamas in Gaza, a different front also opened up: the battle to provide the troops with as much comfort and convenience as possible.   Individuals and organizations rushed to offer a range of innovative, creative and even downright unusual […]

Two Israeli technology veterans have drawn on their decades of professional experience to create a new startup that combats cyberattacks on some of the country’s key institutions, including national water company Mekorot.  To achieve the desired level of protection from such attacks for their clients, IXDen’s founders and co-CEOs Zion Harel and Dr. Leonid Cooperman […]

A meat seasoning created by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem forms a seal on top of the food, preserving it for longer by preventing the quality, taste and smell from deteriorating.  Prof. Oren Tirosh, a specialist at the university in biomechanics (the mechanical principles of living organisms), leads the MeatCrust team that is […]

Imagine if your car could read your mind – if you were tired, distracted, or even a little inebriated – and reacted accordingly to keep you safe.   Israeli startup CorrActions has developed software that integrates into a car’s existing system and uses hardware already in the vehicle to determine the driver’s cognitive state based on […]

Deep underground, miners work to extract iron ore, copper and lithium, as well as many other materials that are essential to the modern world.  Pop culture images of dwarves toiling with pickaxes aside, today’s miners rely on heavy machinery for their work – machinery that runs round the clock under less than optimum conditions – […]

A new AI device can measure the production of urine by the kidneys, down to the last drop, offering what the makers say is a uniquely precise way of monitoring the health of an intensive care unit (ICU) patient who has a catheter fitted.  Kidney function is crucial to a person’s health. The main job […]

With overfishing posing a growing threat to the global marine ecosystem, an Israeli startup has created a way of making fish products without catching any of the animals at all.  “Our oceans are running out of fish,” Sea2Cell co-founder and CEO Dr. Orna Harel tells NoCamels. “And the gap between supply and demand is increasing.”  […]

An AI-driven Israeli water management system is making a splash worldwide with its 24/7 monitoring platform that tracks every leak, burst pipe and broken tap – saving water, time and money.  Managing a water utility, be it in a bustling city or sparsely populated rural area, ultimately means ensuring that homes have access to water […]