New incentives for ultra-orthodox, Arab entrepeneurs Israel’s chief scientist is trying to solve two problems at once with a new policy to provide preferential funding to technology start-ups that are founded by ultraorthodox Jews and Arab Israelis. More than half of ultraorthodox men aged 35-54 do not work, according to a recent study by the…
“I prefer to be a land of a thousand speedboats rather than one big ship” Israel’s minister of economy tells Israel Innovation Conference MIXiii Israel’s Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett, speaking at the Israel Innovation Conference (MIXiii) in Tel Aviv today, praised Israel’s innovative startup ecosystem, saying that he much prefers “to be the land…
Israeli company SenseCy fights cyber security with Avatars In a quiet corner of an Israeli farming village, Tanya sits at her computer and chats online with some of the most skilled hackers in cyber space. Some are just having fun; others are planning heists of credit card details or denial-of-service attacks that would cripple targeted websites.…
Israeli sensors ensuring water safety in China’s capital BEIJING WATER is installing 100 high-precision water quality analyzers for the city’s water distribution network developed by the Israeli company Blue I Water Technologies.Beijing is one of the most densely populated cities in the world and is challenged by water scarcity. The population has nearly doubled since 2000…
Tiny new sensor offers instant analysis of food, materials (IsraelTechDaily Exclusive) Imagine if every consumer had X-Ray vision in their smartphone, able to identify produce with a two-second scan, or tell you how many calories in a piece of food just by looking at it. You won’t have to wait much longer. Israeli start-up Consumer Physics…
WATCH VIDEO: China seeks water solutions High level Chinese officials from the ministry of economy, ministry of water resources and Shandong province were in Tel Aviv this week for a major Water Technology Conference. China-Israel cooperation on water problems has grown rapidly in recent years, bringing fresh drinking water through desalination, new irrigation techniques for farmers…
Tel Aviv stands apart as a hub for tech innovation thanks to one single overriding influence: the Israeli armed forces.Rothschild Boulevard has always been one of the grandest streets in Tel Aviv, with its broad tree-lined central promenade and elegant Bauhaus architecture.The cafes, kiosks and benches teem with young entrepreneurs who seem to survive…
KIRA RADINSKY INVENTOR In 2012, when Cuba suffered its first outbreak of cholera in 130 years, the government and medical experts there were shocked. But software created by Kira Radinsky had predicted it months earlier. Radinsky’s software had essentially read 150 years of news reports and huge amounts of data from sources such as Wikipedia,…
Unit 8200, Israel’s ‘GCHQ’, has spawned more technology millionaires than many business schools Few people would connect the drab olive green of an Israeli army uniform with the cutting edge of fashion. And most fans of Stylit, a website where a virtual personal stylist matches clothes and accessories to suit your taste, are unaware that…
New technique could spell end of staples and stitches An Israeli firm has developed a method of ‘welding’ together surgical wounds Mothers-to-be undergoing c-sections could be among the first to benefitPlasma is channelled through a pen-like device to close wounds smoothlyWomen having caesarean sections could soon be saying goodbye to staples, stitches and unsightly scars…
JERUSALEM — She was the surprise star attraction in an exhibit of the latest in Israeli technology.Theresa Hannigan, a paralyzed retired U.S. Army sergeant from Long Island, found herself bear-hugged by President Obama Thursday as she showed how she regained the power to walk.Hannigan suffers from a neurological auto-immune disease, but with ReWalk, a $60,000…
Israeli secret service and army websites disrupted for several hours after video threat from Anonymous hacker group Israeli officials and security experts have rejected claims that a cyber-attack by the hacker group Anonymous was behind the failure of several government websites on Sunday, including those of the Mossad, the Shin Bet secret service, the Israeli army and…
Nobel Prize winner Dan Shechtman discusses the potential uses for quasicrystals Dan Shechtman, the Philip Tobias professor of materials engineering at the Haifa Technion Israel Institute of Technology, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week for his discovery of quasicrystals—a form of matter with an atomic structure that was previously thought impossible. In 1982, Shechtman…
A tool that lets developers turn existing software into fully functional browser-based applications is becoming an increasingly popular way to make business applications accessible via the Web.Visual WebGui, an application originally run on a Web server using virtualization software and a layer of code that renders its interface functional in the modern Web standard HTML5,…
An Israeli company aims to commercialize microbial fuel-cell technology. An Israeli company called Emefcy has developed a process that promises to decrease the energy drain of wastewater treatment. This week, Energy Technology Ventures—a joint venture between GE, NRG Energy, and ConocoPhillips—invested in the company, marking the venture’s first-ever investment in a non-U.S. company.Conventional wastewater treatment…
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