Monthly Archives: March 2015

Keeping worthwhile businesses going

Posted on March 22, 2015

Israeli startup FundBox lends money to small businesses who are struggling with their cash flow. After uploading a company’s invoices and checking for fraud, Fundbox pays the company now, instead of it having to wait 60 or 90 days for … Continue reading →

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Exporting Israel’s Venture Capital success

Posted on March 22, 2015

Israel’s financial ecosystem took off in 1993 thanks to the venture capital firm Yozma and its founder Yigal Erlich, Chief Scientist of Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Trade with a US$100 million Government investment. Yozma is now expanding into Asia. … Continue reading →

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Israeli technology for Norwegian desalination

Posted on March 22, 2015

Norwegian company, EnviroNor, is recruiting Israeli expertise to provide the water-processing technology necessary for its project to convert secondhand oil barges into floating desalination and wastewater treatment plants. http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=7960&title=Norwegian+desalination+barge+venture+seeks+Israeli+expertise+

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Tech to repair the world

Posted on March 22, 2015

The first ever TOM (Tikkun Olam – repair the world) Maker event took place in Nazareth. It focused on helping people with special needs to integrate better in the community – find a job, to sit with friends in cafes, … Continue reading →

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Israeli university joins International energy consortium

Posted on March 22, 2015

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will be part of an international academic, research and corporate consortium to create a Ph.D. program on thermal energy storage (TES) technologies. TES heats or cools a storage medium so that the stored energy can … Continue reading →

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Australia receives Israeli research delegation

Posted on March 22, 2015

Assistant Minister for Defense, Stuart Robert met with a defense research delegation from Israel to discuss areas of mutual interest including science and technology. http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2015/03/11/assistant-minister-for-defence-israeli-defence-research-delegation-visits-australia/

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Israelis get smarter phones

Posted on March 22, 2015

Israelis bought 2.85 million smartphones in 2014 – a rise of 19% on 2013. http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israelis-buy-285m-smartphones-in-2014-1001018031

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Stop texting and start Gliding

Posted on March 22, 2015

Read more about the instant video messenger from Israel’s Glide and watch this demo of how easy and practical it is to use. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/stop-texting-and-start-gliding-why-glide-is-my-new-fave-app-of-2015/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FjHg9sLoUI

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Security for water

Posted on March 22, 2015

Jerusalem’s regional water & wastewater utility, Hagihon, has placed itself at the forefront of the cyber protection arena with a breakthrough project. Even if an employee does something unauthorized, like using an unrecognized USB flash drive, the system will send … Continue reading →

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Restoring Beer Sheva’s river

Posted on March 22, 2015

Untreated wastewater from Palestinian Arab towns has been polluting the Besor-Hebron-Be’er Sheva River for decades, thanks to international water laws. Now a 3-year project has been agreed between Israel, the PA and the Bedouin community to clean up the river. … Continue reading →

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