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Israel's Medical Achievements

Four saved in 24 hours

A transplant marathon from a single donor in one day at Israel's Schneider Children's Medical Center saved a 9-year-old girl (liver), an 18-year-old woman (kidney), a 2.5-year-old boy (kidney), and...

Under pressure

Sheba Medical Center has opened Israel's first protected hyperbaric medicine center, a facility designed to provide oxygen therapy during emergencies, plus expanding treatment capacity for patients...

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Science & Technology

Cooling the planet with agriculture

Israel's Cooling Crops has developed a spray to lower plant temperature, restore degraded soils, and improve crop performance. Early results show 3 to 6 degree reduction under direct sunlight, 80%+...

Turning waste heat into electricity

Israel's NanoTherma won first place in Access's annual innovation competition with a system designed to turn waste heat from data centers into electricity. It converts low-grade industrial heat int...

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Israel is Inclusive &
Global

Award for first Druze female doctor

Israel's Dr. Nadia Khir, a gynecologist with Clalit Health Services in the Haifa and Western Galilee district, received a special recognition award for her groundbreaking life journey, contribution...

First orangutan to be born at Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo

Tiny Cayaha, ('light' in Indonesian) is the first orangutan to be born at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo. He weighed around a kilogram (2.2 pounds) at birth, born as part of European zoo breeding program...

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Culture, Entertainment & Sport

Honored at the end

At 97 Yaacov Agam received the Israel Prize for his pioneering kinetic art, which included the iconic Fire and Water Fountain in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square. He must have been waiting for the award...

European windsurfing 1-2

Israel's Tamar Steinberg won gold and Shahar Tibi took silver at the European Windsurfing Championships in Portimao, Portugal.

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Economy & Business

A quantum exit

Intel has agreed to acquire the Israeli quantum-software startup Classiq (see previously) for $2.3 billion. Intel believes that the combination of Intel's hardware capabilities and Classiq's softwa...

Smelling of roses

Israel's Karen Cohen Khazon turned her flavor and fragrance company from a small Holon business to a global multi-billion-shekel public company. She is one of only four women who control TA-125 In...

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The Jewish State

It’s cool to be a Jew

Israeli-Aussie chef, musician/songwriter, and digital creator Yehuda Meitav is attracting millions of followers through his very clever viral AI music videos, revealing the hypocrisy of a Goliath o...

Predicting the enemy

The Gideon's Edge AI platform forecasts enemy movement patterns in dense urban environments. Its neural networks generate predictive heat maps showing where enemy squads are most likely to move wit...

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