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In countries where water demand is high but resource is low, every drop counts. An Israeli company have strived to prevent water leaks by perfecting manual methods of water measuring. Their Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a two-pound drone plane that can travel 900 feet above ground and detect water leaks.

A group of Israeli students looking for a way to go online during lectures have developed a phone application that tells them which parts of a room or space have strongest WiFi connections.

Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it might help women who are trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a small study suggests.

Only 0.74 percent of the world's water is considered safe for drinking, and some two billion people either lack access to sufficient quantities of water or are supplied with unsafe water. An Israeli company is working towards making a change, by providing safe and innovative water products.

An Israeli organization for disabled people wishing to do extreme sports recently started a running group where its blind members are tied to their seeing buddies.

An Israeli film student has won a video competition that saw her short film become the official music video for American director David Lynch’s new single, “I Know.”

Children don't often associate the words "school" and "playground", but that's just what an Israeli principal has succeeded to do: Reviving his school by ditching conventional teaching methods in favor of a more "entertaining" one.

General Motors car passengers will soon be able to wirelessly charge their cell phones, music players and other electronic devices on a car mat designed by Israeli start-up, Powermat.

Israel strives to be the leader in creative energy, which includes green building. The WAWA company was established for the same reason, but with a new innovative vision for a wider solution to deal with all that green building demands.

Facebook has rolled out a new application targeting lower-spec feature phones. The app was developed in conjunction with the Israeli-based start-up Snaptu.

In just three weeks, a team of Israeli aid workers completed construction of a hospital emergency room - the only facility of its kind - in Kisumu, Kenya.

The negative health consequences of smoking and inhaling second-hand smoke are well known. Recently researchers have uncovered the dangers of thirdhand smoke that comes from toxic nicotine byproducts lingering in carpets, paper and fabric.

Following Wikileaks, an Israeli startup created a document technology that prevents unauthorized individuals from opening and reading files, alerting managers when a document's security is compromised and automatically blocking usage if unauthorized use is suspected.

The fruit fly has evolved a method for positioning its tiny, hair-like structures used to feel and hear the world that's so efficient, that a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon University says it could be copied to more effectively deploy wireless sensor networks and other distributed computing applications.