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An Israeli company that was working on an AI system to teach people how to operate drones has accelerated the development of its platform and is now using it to help train Israeli soldiers – and civilians – in the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles in wartime.  FlyZone is a subsidiary of Tech 19, […]

Faced with a growing number of head trauma cases due to the ongoing violence triggered by Hamas terrorism, medical professionals in Israel’s largest hospital are innovating – including with the use of artificial intelligence – to help treat its victims.  Thousands of people were wounded when Hamas terrorists from Gaza infiltrated into Israel’s border communities […]

An electrically-powered sleeve that’s designed to enhance performance and accelerate recovery among athletes is now being repurposed for the Israeli soldiers readying to battle the Palestinian terror group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip.  Startup Healables embeds electrodes into an elasticated sleeve controlled by a smartphone app, which generate microcurrents of electricity to stimulate affected […]

With the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza now in its second week and a ceasefire apparently not on the horizon, tens of thousands of Israeli families in the south of the country are looking for safe haven from rocket fire from Hamas in the Gaza Strip.  Joining the war effort, an Israeli tech […]

How do you make solar energy even more efficient and cost effective? According to Israeli startup XFloat you do it by putting large numbers of photovoltaic panels on water and making them turn to track the sun.  Photovoltaic technology converts light from the sun into electricity using solar cells. These cells or panels can be […]

A visit to the bakery usually involves temptation by cupcakes or pastries in enticing hues of orange, pink and purple. What if we could create those vibrant shades of sweet treats without artificial additives and as naturally as bread rises?  Israeli startup Phytolon (a combination of phyto, the Greek word for plant, and lon, Arabic […]

For people diagnosed with serious illnesses such as cancer, the treatment period can mean a maze of emotions, appointments and medical jargon that can often prove overwhelming.  Israeli startup Belong.Life, created by the son of a cancer patient, has built an entire social media platform around the specific needs of people undergoing treatment – and […]

Renting or buying a new property is widely regarded as one of the most stressful things you can do, and is only exacerbated when confronted by a vast empty space without the furniture or trappings that make a house a home.  An Israeli startup has created an augmented reality (AR) app that allows prospective tenants […]

A bird’s eye view of the skies above Basel, Copenhagen and Paris will reveal – aside from the spectacular views – rooftops that lately have been blooming with abundance of greenery.  These rooftops adorned with vegetables and other vegetation are known as green roofs and have become mandatory for new and freshly renovated spaces in […]

In 1976, a Philadelphia hotel hosted an annual convention to celebrate American war vets – but just days after its close, 25 attendees had died of what was believed to be a spate of sudden heart attacks. The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) later found that a specific bacterium – bred in the cooling […]

As the digital world expands to every area of our lives, we have become used to automated banking – with our transactions carried out instantly and with just one click.  But behind the ease with which we move our money about is still a meticulous process of verification, known as compliance, ensuring that our transactions […]

Israeli giants of industry such as 3D printer Stratasys and defense technology company Elbit have spent the last eight months developing innovative solutions – not to benefit their businesses, but to ease ongoing issues faced by wounded veterans.  Restart, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of Israel’s wounded veterans, recruited these companies to […]

Israel has long been known for its innovation, earning its moniker of startup nation for its technological advances in medicine, climate change, agriculture and more. And that innovation has reached the country’s wine market, with sellers and growers alike turning to unique methods of growing, development and even hiring workers. And as Jews all over […]

A model embryo grown in the lab and not the womb, using stem cells and not egg and sperm, could be the future of research into pregnancy and drug testing and even provide bespoke organ transplants, its creator says.  What Prof. Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna of the Weizmann Institute of Science and his team have created […]

An Israeli company has produced an insulin-based therapy that strengthens the digestive system of babies born prematurely, helping to stop them from developing life-threatening complications. And for these babies, every day of proper development is crucial.  Elgan Pharma says that the preemies who were given its unique therapy reached the ability to absorb all the […]