Israel's Medical Achievements

Bridge over troubled water

This newsletter previously featured the coronavirus sanitation bridging tunnel developed by Israel's RD PACK. The video describes its key component - the disinfectant spray - comprised, amazingly,...

New allies in the fight against viruses

Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute have discovered that bacteria contain viperins - enzymes that produce antiviral molecules. These substances are undergoing testing that may lead to the de...

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Science & Technology

Goodbye to plastic packaging

Israel's W-Cycle has developed SupraPulp - plastic-free packaging made of sugarcane fiber waste (baasse) that is fully compostable, safe, non-absorbent yet durable. Ready meals in SupraPulp can be ...

Smart fish farming

Israel's GO Smart has developed hi-tech hardware and software for managing fish farms. They can analyze water quality, fish biomass, mortality, and behavior. Its precision farming systems include a...

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Israel is Inclusive &
Global

Druze leader of elite Israeli IDF unit

Israel-Druze Arab Lt. Col. Ayoub Kyuff - currently a commander in the Golani Brigade - has been appointed as the new head of the IDF's elite Shaldag unit.

Aid for Chad

Israeli NGO Israeli Flying Aid (IFA) and the AJC have donated PPE, tents, sprayers and more, to help Chad fight floods, Covid-19, malaria, and to absorb refugees fleeing Boko Haram. IFA also sent s...

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Culture, Entertainment & Sport

Israeli completes the Tour de France

Guy Niv is the first Israeli to finish the Tour de France cycle race. He said, "I felt shivers when I crossed the finish line on the Champs-Elys?es. It was a sense of vast relief and sheer happines...

US honor for Israeli literary program

Keren Grinspoon Israel has been selected as a 2020 US Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program Best Practice Honoree for its literary program. KGI distributes some 3.5 million books in Hebrew an...

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Economy & Business

$150 million fund for Israeli tech startups

Israeli VC company Greenfield Partners has closed a $150m fund to continue its strategy of supporting early growth stage Israeli and Israel-related technology and tech-enabled businesses.

BMW use Israeli tech to feel the road

Israel's Tactile Mobility has signed a deal to provide BMW with its road-sensing software that allows smart cars to "feel the road" and adjust like a human driver. Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche has...

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The Jewish State

Peace agreements signed with UAE & Bahrain

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the Abraham Accords with the Foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and of Bahrain. The historic signing took place on the lawn of the White ...

The writing is on the wall

A 2000-year-old clay inkwell has been discovered intact in Gush Etzion. The discovery of the inkwell strengthens the hypothesis that literacy was relatively common among the Jewish population in Ju...

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