Germany and Israel Celebrate Jubilee of Diplomatic Ties

May 14, 2015 Israeli President Reuven Rivlin traveled to Germany for a three-day state visit this week to mark the jubilee of diplomatic ties between Germany and Israel. On Monday, Rivlin was welcomed by German President Joachim Gauck at Bellevue Palace in Berlin.

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Israel’s Agritech Innovations Bless the World

May 11, 2015 Israel’s agricultural technology, which was recently on display at Agritech, is quickly becoming a major blessing to populations around the world. Precision agriculture is the new technological revolution, which focuses on key factors from enhancing crops to monitoring, growing and harvesting food; to stretching further the money and resources used in production.

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Bloomberg Announces Winners of the Genesis Generation Challenge

May 4, 2015 Last week, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced nine recipients of the Genesis Generation Challenge, a competition supporting innovative projects guided by Jewish values. Each team of young adults selected as a winner of the Genesis Generation Challenge is awarded $100,000 to help implement their sustainable and scalable solution to an important problem. The teams are also matched with a mentor to help develop the project.

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Israeli Finds Way to Extend Shelf Life of Vegetables

May 1, 2015 The Hebrew University’s Yissum technology transfer company has found a new way to extend the shelf life of vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, celery, spinach and parsley. The discovery, which was presented at the 19th Agritech Israel exhibition held in Tel Aviv last week, is especially important in an industry where as much as 50 percent of leafy vegetables can be lost before reaching the market due to natural wilting and deterioration (senescence).

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Seven Species Fruits Aid Cardiac Health

April 19, 2015 A half a glass of pomegranate juice and a few dates a day improve cardiac health, a new study at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reveals. The combination of as little as a half of a glass of pomegranate juice and three dates can ward off atherosclerosis, a condition in which arteries become hard and clogged with plaque. These fatty plaque deposits are dangerous because they can rupture. The blood clot that forms can block the blood supply to the brain, leading to a stroke.

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Israeli Apartheid? Palestinian Named Israeli Ministry’s Chief Scientist

March 24, 2015 A 42-year-old Palestinian scientist with a prestigious track record of hard work and a specialization in chemical engineering has been selected as the deputy chief scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, the highest-ranking Israeli government position for any Palestinian resident.

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Israel Ranks Fifth in Bloomberg Innovation Index

February 8, 2015 Israel has risen dramatically to 5th place on Bloomberg’s Innovation Index, which each year compares nations on such measures as research and development performance, technical education, number of patents held and other marks of technological performance. Last year it was ranked 30th.

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Detecting Cancer With Israel’s SniffPhone

February 8, 2015 Professor Hossam Haick of Israel’s Technion in Haifa will soon see his cancer sniffing NaNose breathalyzer technology installed in mobile phones called SniffPhone. The device uses a micro-sized smell-sensitive sensor installed as an add-on on smart phones that combined with uniquely designed software is able to actually “smell” cancer and other serious diseases on a user’s breath.

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Africa’s Largest Solar Field Built With and Modeled After Israeli Ingenuity

February 8, 2015 Gigawatt Global, an American-owned Dutch company with an extensive research & design branch in Israel, has just powered 15,000 homes and some 12 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. The 28,360 panel solar field built in the form of the African continent stands on land owned by the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, a kibbutz-type orphanage for victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

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Third Industrial Revolution: Technion Gets 3D Metal Printer

February 1, 2015 A revolution in printing has arrived in Israel that is hailed as the “Third Industrial Revolution.” A 3D metal printer capable of producing metal components is operational for the first time in Israel. The Israel Institute of Metals (IMM), with a research institute linked to Israel’s Technion in Haifa, recently produced this machine that prints metal components, including those made of titanium and other metal alloys.

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