Monthly Archives: January 2022

How Israel is changing the way we travel

Posted on January 2, 2022

The Smart Mobility summit in Tel Aviv was a global event with 5,000 attendees, including automakers and government leaders. The speakers discussed vehicle electrification, artificial intelligence, big data and their influence on transportation, Mobility as a Service (MAAS), and more. … Continue reading →

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Two awards for Cognata

Posted on January 2, 2022

Israeli autonomous car simulator Cognata (see here previously) won two CES 2022 Innovation Awards recently. First, for its Smart City Digital Twin product (see video). Also, for helping accelerate the global program for ADAS validation to meet global regulatory requirements. … Continue reading →

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Mobileye takes to Parisian streets

Posted on January 2, 2022

Employees of the Galeries Lafayette store on Paris’ Haussmann Boulevard will be able to ride to work in an autonomous car controlled by Israel’s Mobileye. The trial service will also feature a Mobileye safety driver and a “co-pilot” from French … Continue reading →

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Storing renewable energy

Posted on January 2, 2022

Israel’s Augwind (see here previously) has signed an $8 million agreement with the Israel Electricity Corporation to build a 40-megawatt hours AirBattery (the world’s first) to store solar or wind energy as compressed air (see here also). See videos for … Continue reading →

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Next Gen solar cells

Posted on January 2, 2022

Israel’s SOLRA is developing solar cells based on thin film materials derived from perovskite, a crystalline substance that efficiently absorbs light. Perovskite-based solar cells have higher cell power conversion efficiencies, cheaper to manufacture and have far more uses than existing … Continue reading →

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Together

Posted on January 2, 2022

Arab Israeli Yoseph Haddad has founded Together – Vouch for Each Other which bridges gaps between Jews and Arabs, connecting Israeli Arab society to Israeli society. Arabs can be proud Arabs and proud Israelis. The Arab Israeli NGO also works … Continue reading →

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Israeli & UAE students solve problems together

Posted on January 2, 2022

Jerusalem-based PICO Kids Ambassadors program flew 16 Jerusalemite students to a “Makeathon” at the Dubai Future Foundation. With UAE students they built prototypes for desalination facilities, vertical farms, and portable bottle caps with integrated filters. https://www.jns.org/academic-mission-for-jerusalem-emirati-students-addresses-global-challenges/

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An EU scholarship to Israeli university

Posted on January 2, 2022

A consortium of ten universities – nine in Europe and Bar-Ilan University in Israel – has won the EU’s prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree (EMJMD) grant, valued at more than €4.5m. It will help students study for a MSc … Continue reading →

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European lawmakers see the real Israel

Posted on January 2, 2022

Israel hosted a group of 16 young lawmakers from Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Sweden. Their itinerary included the Gaza periphery (Sderot & Iron Dome), Jerusalem (Old City, Knesset & Yad Vashem) and Tel Aviv’s … Continue reading →

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UN Ambassadors see the real Israel

Posted on January 2, 2022

A delegation of 12 ambassadors to the United Nations recently visited Israel. On a tour of the Entrepreneurship Center of the Unistream Association in Be’er Sheva, the students (from all social and geographical fringes of Israel) presented the startup companies … Continue reading →

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