Monthly Archives: July 2021

A self-driving car in New York City

Israeli-founded Mobileye is proving “if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere” with an autonomous car pilot in Manhattan. A car with Mobileye’s technologies negotiates congested streets, pedestrians, cyclists, double-parked vehicles, construction, emergency vehicles and more. https://www.timesofisrael.com/if-you-can-make-it-there-mobileye-self-driving-car-plies-new-york-city-streets/ … Continue reading

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High-speed fiber for the periphery

Israeli PM Naftali Bennett and Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel dedicated the first “fiber-optic connection” in Ma’alot-Tarshiha in the north of the country. Hendel said that fast Internet was vital for Zionism and that other countries would see no profit in … Continue reading

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Preventing male chick slaughter

A fifth Israeli startup has a technical solution to the problem of preventing the hatching of unwanted male chicks (see here previously).  NRS Poultry, a research group at Israel’s Volcani Institute, is developing a way to stop a hen’s male-producing … Continue reading

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DNA tests to keep streets clean

Tel Aviv’s municipality will require dog owners to provide a DNA sample from their pets to be kept in a city-run database. Inspectors will match these to samples from uncollected dog droppings left on the street and offending owners will … Continue reading

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More than just space for Arab & Jewish teens

Moona – a Space for Change (see here previously) began as an extracurricular program for Jewish and Arab Israeli high school students to learn space technology, robotics, drones etc. It has now added advanced vision and IoT technologies, plus hi-tech … Continue reading

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Moon mission for oxygen production

Japan’s ispace missions to the Moon in 2023 and 2024 plan to carry the Lunar Extractor payloads of Israel’s Helios (see here previously).  Helios aims to demonstrate the production of oxygen and metals on the lunar surface. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912810,00.html https://www.timesofisrael.com/helios-to-hitch-ride-on-japan-lunar-lander-in-bid-to-make-oxygen-on-moon/

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Jupiter’s cyclones

Researchers from Israel’s Weizmann Institute have used data from NASA’s Juno space probe to reveal the mysteries of Jupiter’s massive polar cyclones. They explained why Jupiter’s storms, as opposed to the earthly variety, do not disperse and rarely change. https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/jupiters-super-polar-cyclones-are-here-stay … Continue reading

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Desert center for food security

Israel’s Ben-Gurion University has established the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Food Security in the Desert. It will focus on water conservation, treatment and recycling. President and CEO of Watergen and Vertical Field Dr. Michael Mirilashvili is a key partner for … Continue reading

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More US-Israeli projects

The Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD) is investing $6 million into six joint US-Israeli projects including cybersecurity, depression therapy and satellite tracking. The Israeli startups are Cyberint , GrayMatters Health, Over-Sat, Sensifree, Skillreal, and YonaLink. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-israel-fund-to-invest-6-million-in-six-new-joint-projects/ https://cyberint.com/ … Continue reading

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Cybersecurity agreement with Morocco

The Israel National Cyber Directorate has signed a cybersecurity cooperation agreement with Morocco in Rabat – the first cyber-defense accord between the two countries since the start of relations last year. It covers operations, R&D and the sharing of information … Continue reading

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