Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Olympic games of green construction

Posted on August 12, 2012

An Israeli team will submit an entry for the prestigious Solar Decathlon China competition scheduled for August 2013. The competition will include academic teams from 20 countries who will compete for the title of champion of ecological construction. http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5235 http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-green-dream-team-hopes-to-sweep-environmental-olympics/

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Israel’s “Start-up Olympics”

Posted on August 12, 2012

The “Tech Trailblazers Awards” is a new initiative for taking innovative Israeli tech start-ups into Gold Medal Territory. A £1 million prize fund and guaranteed publicity will launch any new enterprise off the starting blocks and on track for a … Continue reading →

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Israeli technology at the Olympics

Posted on August 12, 2012

100 broadcasters including BBC, NBC, Globosat, Terra, TV Record, Televisa, and Uno TV, are all using a remote television uplink technology developed by Israel’s LiveU. And Orad TV developed the software to display national flags on the lanes for swimming … Continue reading →

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Broadcasting the news

Posted on August 5, 2012

Thanks to Donald Harrison, editor of San Diego Jewish World, who has published a feature about the editor of the newsletter you are now reading. Please click on the following to read it. http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/07/24/good-news-about-israel-just-a-click-away/

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Israel’s most powerful computer ever

Posted on August 5, 2012

The Technion’s new supercomputer is the most powerful computing cluster ever deployed for civilian use in Israel. The “Tamnun” (Hebrew for octopus) is an SGI Infiniband Cluster, consisting of 1260 processor cores, with 96 GB of RAM memory per node. … Continue reading →

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Nobel laureate also makes jewellery

Posted on August 5, 2012

Technion Professor Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. But not a lot of people know that he is also a talented jewellery craftsman. He recently exhibited 15 unique pieces that he made … Continue reading →

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350 US immigrants to join IDF

Posted on August 5, 2012

This summer, 350 young Americans have decided to make Aliya with Nefesh b’Nefesh in order to join the ranks of the Israel Defence Forces immediately. Most of the expected arrivals are setting their sights on elite or combat units. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4259183,00.html

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Future Jewish leaders visit Israel

Posted on August 5, 2012

A guest blog from Samantha Friedman describing the 3-week visit by 120 Diller Teen Fellows from North America who have come to Israel in order to learn how to lead the next generation and inspire them to help repair the … Continue reading →

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Seven years cycle of Talmudic study completed

Posted on August 5, 2012

20,000 Jews celebrated together in Teddy Stadium Jerusalem (Israel’s capital city). Another 11,000 gathered in Tel Aviv. The occasion was the completion of the seven-year Daf Yomi cycle where hundreds of thousands study a page of Talmud every day. http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=279442

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Lebanon uses Israeli cosmetic products

Posted on August 5, 2012

Campaigners to boycott Israel have exposed the “scandal” on the Arab media site Alakhbar. Israeli products include those from Syneron, Lumenis, Alma and Invasix. The EoZ site highlights that these products also remove disfigurations on children, and Lebanon uses many … Continue reading →

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