Monthly Archives: July 2021

Cybersecurity for Dubai

Posted on July 4, 2021

Israel’s Rafael has established the Israeli Operational Technologies Cyber Consortium to provide cyber security for operational technologies in Dubai. Its aim is to protect critical infrastructure in the UAE and elsewhere in the Gulf, including desalination plants, power plants and … Continue reading →

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El Al partners Etihad

Posted on July 4, 2021

The UAE’s Etihad Airlines and Israel’s El Al have launched a joint codeshare network and reciprocal loyalty agreement for frequent flyers. El Al will sell tickets and offer frequent flier points to its members for the twice-weekly Etihad service between … Continue reading →

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New economic pact with UAE

Posted on July 4, 2021

Israel and the UAE have signed an Agreement on Economic and Trade Cooperation. It covers free flow of goods and services, trade fairs, knowledge exchanges, delegations, standards and regulation, the private sector, R&D, agri-tech, and more. Mutual trade has now … Continue reading →

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The world’s thinnest technology

Posted on July 4, 2021

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have engineered the thinnest piece of technology – layers of Boron and Nitrogen just two atoms thick. Electricity causes the layers to slide and can be used to control advanced electronic devices. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6549/1462 https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-tiniest-tech-tel-aviv-university-unveils-2-atom-thick-data-storage/ https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-scientists-create-the-worlds-thinnest-tech-just-2-atoms-thick-672448 … Continue reading →

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Cars that learn

Posted on July 4, 2021

Israel’s AutoBrains (formerly Cartica) is partnering vehicle products maker Continental AG to bring its “unsupervised learning” technology to market. AutoBrains develops Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that process signals from the car’s environment and learn in a similar way to … Continue reading →

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Israel’s practical use of AR

Posted on July 4, 2021

This article focuses on some of the 50 Israeli startups that have been developing practical uses for AR – Augmented Reality. Applications include repairing a patient’s eye socket (see here); personal shopping (Mixed Place – see here) and Lumus (see … Continue reading →

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Protect your pacemaker from hackers

Posted on July 4, 2021

Israel’s CyberMDX (see here previously) has finished its 18-month project to protect the systems at Michigan Medicine. It is now being deployed at the 26 hospitals of Michigan’s MetroHealth. CyberMDX now protects millions of medical devices and IoT devices around … Continue reading →

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Hadera residents get deliveries by drone

Posted on July 4, 2021

Israel National Drone Network Initiative has entered its second phase (see here previously). Unmanned aircraft will fly across the skies of Hadera, delivering goods to the city’s residents. The project’s aim is eventually to relieve road congestion and deliver urgent … Continue reading →

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A living port in Spain

Posted on July 4, 2021

A consortium including Israel’s ECOncrete (see here previously) has won European funding for a large-scale “Living Ports” project at the Port of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. ECOncrete will build a sea wall, support for the observation deck, and units for coastal … Continue reading →

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Using defense tech for medical solutions

Posted on July 4, 2021

Israel’s Soroka Medical Center and Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary Elta have set up a joint innovation center to take defense technologies and convert them into new medical technologies. During the coronavirus pandemic, IAI built ventilators and patient monitors. https://www.jns.org/israeli-hospital-aerospace-firm-team-up-to-convert-defense-tech-into-medical-solutions/

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