Israel's Medical Achievements

Protection against Delta variant

A pre-clinical trial of opaganib from Israel's Redhill (see previously) shows that its strong antiviral and anti-inflammatory activities can inhibit any variant of the SARS-Cov-2 ...

An affordable US virtual health company

Israel's Antidote Health is bringing a virtual Kupat Holim (health fund) to the US for the benefit of uninsured and under-insured Americans. Using a digital service and AI, Antidote Health says it ...

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Science & Technology

Free tech training for new immigrants

Jewish Agency-founded nonprofit academy Israel Tech Challenge (ITC.tech) is partnering the Aliya Ministry to offer fully subsidized Front-end Web Development and Data Analytics training that will g...

Put yourself in the movie

Computer vision technology from Israel's D-ID has been used to promote the new movie "Reminiscence". Anyone can upload still photos of themselves, which are then animated and inserted into the movi...

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Israel is Inclusive &
Global

Startup for those on the spectrum

Israel's Point.AI hires only high-functioning individuals on the autism spectrum to perform critical data annotation for the fast-growing Israeli AI industry. They are ideally suited to the tasks, ...

500 villages

Israeli NGO Innovation: Africa (see previously) has just reached the major milestone of bringing light and water to 500 villages. It has transformed the lives of nearly 3 million ...

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Culture, Entertainment & Sport

End of August events in Jerusalem

Those lucky to be able to walk the streets of Jerusalem would enjoy Docu.text, the annual documentary film festival, at the National Library; also, the International Puppet Festival, concerts at Ki...

Israeli success at the Paralympics

Israeli swimmers won 6 golds at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. Mark Malyar broke 2 world records, winning 2 golds and a bronze. Ami Dadaon won 2 golds and a silver. Iyad Shalabi is the first Arab...

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Economy & Business

Human capital fund for hi-tech training

The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) is to launch a Human Capital Fund program. It anticipates providing NIS 30 million to support companies with up to 70% of their models to help train and place ...

3D printed vegan burgers for US colleges

Israel's SavorEat (see previously) has partnered US-French food company Sodexo, to launch its kosher, vegan, gluten-free, allergen-free 3D-printed burger patties in the US. A pilo...

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The Jewish State

Record-breaking month for Aliya

Nefesh b'Nefesh (NbN) brought 1,000 North American Olim (immigrants) to Israel during August - surpassing any other month in the organization's history. NbN has brought more than 3,000 olim to the ...

Massive crop from Temple-era data palm

Hannah, one of the Judean date palms at Kibbutz Ketura that was grown from a 2,000-year-old seed (see previously), has produced a huge crop of dates this year. It dwarfs the 111 d...

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