A team of neuroscientists from Bar-Ilan University is one of four winners of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).
The WEF announced last week its 2020 Technology Pioneers, described “as future headline-makers addressing global issues with cutting-edge technology.”
By Brian Blum
The Weizmann Institute’s project is one of four selected by NASA for potential launch in 2026.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some 150 Emirati engineers, researchers and scientists have been working on the Emirates Mars Mission since the project was inaugurated in 2014, and is slated to arrive in Mars’ orbit by 2021.
By Eliana Rudee
Through online dialogue, meetings and webinars, Israelis share their innovative projects that can provide individuals and communities with ideas as they work to adapt to the coronavirus crisis in the short and long term.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ultimately, more than 80 percent of the country's electricity would be provided for by solar power according to the plan
OptimalPlus had 2019 revenue of $51 million and employs approximately 240 employees.
LORA is a sea-to-ground and ground-to-ground system which includes a long-range ballistic missile, a unique launcher, a command and control system, and ground or marine support system.
“The CRISPR-IL consortium will enable Israeli industry to be at the forefront of genome editing worldwide."
By Yori Yalon
Mayor Moshe Lion heralds “true revolution” for eastern Jerusalem.
The effectiveness of these drugs in patients with generalized viral diseases and COVID-19, in particular, can be relatively quickly examined and made more readily available.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ola Sergatchov, Yael Ben Arie, Sagit Manor, Yuval Lazar, Nadia Malinoff-Kan, Dr. Dorit Dor and Sigalit Shavit made the annual list of Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity, a powerful display of Israeli supremacy in the field.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We will compare samples from COVID-19 patients with samples from patients with other diseases to see if we can identify the different stages of infection,” said Professor Gabby Sarusi.
The mask is reusable, washable and sterilizable, and is easy to breathe in. It is transparent in front to enable lip reading and is designed not to fog up from people’s breath. What’s more, it is comfortable and affordable.
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have developed new methodologies to produce powerful, environmentally-friendly disinfectants, based on tap water, that can eliminate bacteria and kill viruses, including microbes from the coronavirus family.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The committee chose to support a wide range of projects dealing with the challenges of coronavirus because the fight against the pandemic needs to be waged on multiple fronts,” according to the Ministry of Economics and Industry.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel's daily renewable energy production averages at 10.4%
By Israel Hayom
Israeli Defense Ministry’s Tank Rehabilitation and Maintenance Center is churning out 1,400 pairs of protective goggles a day • “We are working at full strength to find creative solutions that will save lives,” says Maintenance Center commander Col. Udi Amira.
By Eliana Rudee
Staff members are at the forefront of medical technologies and innovation, task forces, methods and vaccines in the making, working to protect the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
An experiment at BGU observed a very fundamental and unique effect of quantum mechanics in single isolated atoms, called the geometric phase.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The vaccine will be oral, making it particularly accessible to the general public.
The Drone Dome was successful in intercepting multiple maneuvering targets with laser technology and achieved 100% success in all test scenarios.
Israeli scientists have found rare and benign tumor, called LCH, in a young dinosaur that roamed the plains of southern Alberta, Canada, over 60 million years ago.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 60-second commercial first aired on a dedicated website launched by consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble, where viewers could vote on and control the ad’s storyline.
There were over 8600 cyberattack alerts in Israel in 2019.
Israeli tech ended 2019 with a record high of $8.3b in capital funding. The number of transactions in 2019, 522 funding deals, remained at the same level as 2018.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The benefits of a laser interception system are the continuous and low-cost use, and improving the effectiveness of the protection systems as a result of using two different and complementary technologies – kinetic air defense such as the Iron Dome system and the laser.
Dror 1 is intended to meet Israel’s satellite communications needs for approximately 15 years.
Israeli startup TriEye on Thursday announced a collaboration with the German sports car manufacturer Porsche to further improve visibility and performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
More than 100 Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox students from Israel and dozens of other countries took part in the fourth annual Jerusalem College of Technology hackathon, working for 48 hours on innovative projects and designs.
By Aryeh Green
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can attack various parts of the body.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Our robot employment agency is a game-changer,” said Ran Poliakine, founder of SixAI. “It will provide capacity in markets that struggle with labor availability either through the difficulty of the work itself or the cost pressures they face.”
Habana Labs develops programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center.
Israel and Montenegro on Sunday signed their first-ever defense agreement, awarding Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s leading weapons manufacturers, a contract of approximately $35 million to supply Montenegro’s Armed Forces with Remote Controlled Weapon Stations (RCWS). The contract was signed by Montenegrin Minister of Defense Predrag Bošković and General Director of Israeli Ministry of Defense, […]
Hi-tech accounts for approximately 37% of all industrial exports in Israel and contributes immensely to Israel’s annual growth.
The spacecraft was developed by high school students at the Space Laboratory of the Herzliya Science Centre (HSC) and students from the Sha’ar HaNegev High school in Israel’s southern region.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“A high school student used our concept to calculate the entropy of a complex physical system: the XY model,” says Professor Roy Beck. “Although this is considered a challenging problem with regard to entropy, the student accomplished it with very little guidance.”
Israeli scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science have developed bacteria that survives solely on carbon dioxide (CO2) from their surroundings, instead of their regular food.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The development’s significance is magnified by the unexplained decline of the bee populations in many parts of the world.
Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Monday reported that it will supply electro-optic systems for the use of US Air Force fighter jets, a contract worth approximately NIS 200 million.
The Jerusalem-based firm will act as a technology scout and source innovation and investment opportunities for Toyota Tsusho in Israel and abroad.
By Eliana Rudee
A newly established research center at the Jerusalem College of Technology seeks to answer pivotal religious questions, such as: Can you send Alexa voice commands on Shabbat?
MeaTech, is developing technology for 3D printing of lab-grown Clean Meat produced from stem cells.
The massive 75,000 sq. meter (approx. 800,000 sq. ft.) building will host 2,000 employees from the former Petah Tikva and Ra’anana campuses.
By tracking the electrical usage signature of devices, the plug will know what actions a device is currently doing.
The Likud chatbot talked about “Arabs who want to destroy us all.”
Israeli scientists say they've developed monosex prawns that can serve the triple goal of alleviating poverty, protecting the environment and reducing disease.
The students are collaborating with 25 labs across six host institutions in Israel, Canada, Australia and Sweden.
A sample of food is placed on a single-use pad, the device then analyzes the sample and gives an answer within three minutes to a smart-phone with which it is paired.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s precise place in the 2019 top 10 list has yet to be disclosed — the final results are slated to be unveiled on July 24 at a special event the WIPO will be hosting in New Delhi.
BinyaminTech was created in order to establish a foundation that will allow for the development of a high-tech industry in the Binyamin region and incorporate the Binyamin residents in the industry.
The time necessary for the production of lab meat would take only three weeks, compared to two years with traditional beef growing.
The space saved by the REE vehicle’s base can be used for cargo, as well as for passengers or even a larger electric battery.
More cows with less methane emissions, will leave Progressives with little to protest against.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Drowning is the world 3rd leading cause of unintentional death among children.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The journey of ‘Beresheet’ to the moon, despite the hard landing, will last in the memory of Israel and the world as a successful one, a breakthrough,” SpaceIL said in a statement.
Awards were presented to 423 Israeli companies and researchers that won Horizon 2020 grants in 2018.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Every 17 employees out of 1,000 in Israel are researchers, the Jewish state has registered 3,804 patents, has published 1,133 scientific papers, and spends 4.25 percent of its GDP on R&D.
Israel has developed some of the world’s most advanced solar energy equipment and enjoys sunshine almost year-round.
We're going to try again to land on the moon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The legacy SpaceIL will have on the future of the space industry is significant. This team’s ability to build a lunar lander for $100 million and less than 50 engineers is remarkable, a leap forward towards affordable and accessible space exploration,” said XPRIZE executive chairman and founder Peter Diamandis.
Preliminary data suggests a technical glitch in one of Beresheet's components triggered the chain of events yesterday that caused the main engine of the spacecraft to malfunction.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said Israel will try again.
Live Broadcast as Beresheet lands on the moon.
The maneuver, which was performed at 7:40 pm Israel time, lowered the spacecraft’s altitude in preparation for its landing tomorrow.
Beresheet took photos of the far side of the moon as it continues its orbit.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new system will reduce the number of Israel Defense Forces’ soldiers necessary to fight using artillery, and will include mobile cannons, rockets, radars, missile units, training simulators and remote-operated aircraft.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It will provide access to research for scholars seeking new treatment methods, create shared national databases and distribute information to decision-makers, health-care professionals and the general public.
The chosen site is located in the northeastern part of Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity), a few hundreds of km east of the Apollo 15 landing site and a similar distance northwest of the Apollo 17 site.
The talents of the religious scientists of the future were on full display as more than 100 yeshiva students from around Israel participated in Jerusalem College of Technology’s (JCT) sixth annual Physics Olympiad last week.
The University and Dr. Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) announce partnership which will use the vehicle of digital health to create thousands of new jobs in Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city.
Israel is the first country in the world to have all those buried in its cemeteries documented and published online.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The firm manufactures ground robotic systems, also known as the Transportable Interoperatble Ground Robot (TIGR), for military and law-enforcement utilization, such as handling of suspicious and dangerous items, in addition to collecting intelligence.
Beresheet is on its way to an elliptical orbit where the farthest point from Earth is at a distance 270,000 km (167,770 miles).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s electronic medical records account for 98 percent of the population, going back two decades. The Israeli government recently launched a national project that will invest $272 million in digital health initiatives over the next five years.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Alooma helps enterprise companies streamline database migration in Google’s cloud with an innovative data pipeline tool that enables them to move their data from multiple sources to a single data warehouse.
Israel's renewable energy innovation has received global recognition, with innovative ideas such as converting wind into electricity, technologies for clean water and other inventions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Homefront Command’s missile-alert system is one of the most sensitive parts of Israel’s civilian and military infrastructure.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is currently unknown if Coinbase has taken action against Hamas for using its exchange.
The IAI’s Barak 8 Defense System can be used at sea or on land and is designed to intercept short to long-range threats.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel is successful in repelling the attacks.
This is the largest-ever foreign investment in Israel to date.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Students visited more than 15 startup firms in sectors such as cyber security, medicine, biotech, agrotech, finance and artificial intelligence.
Israeli high-tech companies raised a record $6.1 billion in 623 deals in 2018, an increase of 16.5 percent compared to the $5.24 billion attracted in 2017.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new government grant is conditioned on Intel’s commitment to hire 250 new employees, as well as business arrangements with local vendors and retailers to the tune of NIS 2.1 billion ($555 million) a year.
“It is called the grand opening for innovation and peace center because the idea is that peace and innovation absolutely go together, innovation is an engine of peace, not only of progress.”
“Facebook is a partisan platform,” he asserted. “They do not cater to those whose views they do not align with."
By JNi.Media
In 2017, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) purchased South Korean-made FA-50PH “Fighting Eagle” jet fighters equipped with the Elta EL/M-2032 fire control radar.
By JNi.Media
This model offers the latest cockpit and training system modifications to help Saudi pilots transition to the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet.
By JNi.Media
In one notable case, according to the report, law enforcement used a long-range familial search to trace the Golden State Killer.
By JNi.Media
The WindGuard is a combat-proven system installed on IDF Merkava and Namer tanks.
By JNi.Media
The system may operate in any terrain and has a precision operation system that generates a real image of the arena.
By JNi.Media
Clean water emits a different field than contaminated water: if there are chemicals, bacteria, oils or metals in the water, its magnetic field won't match the clean emission.
By JNi.Media
"Throughout my life, new missiles have entered the scene and we found a solution."
Revolutionary drug-free, soft silicone device called NozNoz mechanically diverts smells from olfactory receptors in the nose, which can help curb appetite and change metabolism.
By JNi.Media
The results provide for the first time the basic infrastructure for improving the productivity of this important herb.
By JNi.Media
"The quality of the images generated by the different satellites is excellent and they provide us with invaluable intelligence information, proving that the sky is not the limit."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Researchers demonstrated for the first time that it is plausible to apply the field of quantum information and computing to metamaterials, allowing for multiple practical uses such as the development of unbreakable encryption, in addition to fresh ways for quantum information systems stored on a chip.
By JNi.Media
Effective Space is developing a unique, small spacecraft to extend the life of satellites in orbit, based on the vision to provide logistics services in the rapidly growing space economy.