Monthly Archives: April 2022

Technion tractors are transforming agriculture

Posted on April 3, 2022

On International Day of Forests (21st Mar) Israel’s Technion Institute reported on Israel’s Blue White Robotics (see here previously), founded by two graduates of the Technion. The latest article explains how its tractors use sensor technology to operate autonomously. https://technionuk.org/press-release/how-technion-tractors-are-transforming-agriculture/ … Continue reading →

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Weathering the storm

Posted on April 3, 2022

Israel’s PLANETech and KKL-JNF are launching the Climate Solutions Prize, aiming to identify technologies that tackle extreme weather events. Israeli companies can present their solutions to predict, prevent, manage & recover from wildfires, floods, storms, extreme heat, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttq_LmYvdI https://climatesolutionsprize.com/competitions.asp?id=84

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Leading the waterways

Posted on April 3, 2022

On 13th Apr (at noon ET) Ben Gurion University is hosting a Zoom webinar entitled “How Israel is Leading the Way in Water Renewal” featuring BGU’s Professor Edo Bar-Zeev. He will share his latest research on desalination and the aquatic … Continue reading →

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Using nature for nature

Posted on April 3, 2022

Israel’s Ayala Water & Ecology (see here previously) has 26 years of experience in the field of phytoremediation – the use of plants to extract and remove elemental pollutants from water. Ayala received an EU Horizon 2020 innovation award to … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Apple scholars

Posted on April 3, 2022

Two Israelis (out of 15 worldwide) have been selected as Apple Scholars in AI / Machine Learning for 2022. Moshe Shenfeld is studying privacy-preserving machine learning at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Also, Noam Razin of Tel Aviv University for … Continue reading →

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Four Arab nations at Israeli summit

Posted on April 3, 2022

Israel hosted the “Negev Summit” comprising the Foreign Ministers of the UAE, Morocco, Bahrain and Egypt, plus the US Secretary of State and Israel’s Foreign Minister. They stated that the conference would be the first of a regular regional forum. … Continue reading →

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“The Orange Ones”

Posted on April 3, 2022

The car being driven by volunteers from United Hatzalah broke down twice in Moldova.  Each time local citizens helped fix the problem but wouldn’t accept payment. The reason?  “We recognized your jackets – you are “The Orange Ones” who have … Continue reading →

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Helping refugees in their own language

Posted on April 3, 2022

Israel is sending a delegation of 15 Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking police officers to Poland to assist Ukrainian refugees who want to come to Israel (see here previously). Additionally, police will reserve rooms at Israel’s National Police Academy to host some … Continue reading →

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Israelis donate aid to Ukrainians

Posted on April 3, 2022

The Jewish Agency is leading Operation Out Turn, involving 110 local authorities and organizations from all over Israel. It includes an air train of 23,000 boxes (sone 230 tons) of humanitarian aid donated by the Israeli public for the victims … Continue reading →

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From war in Ukraine to studies at Israeli university

Posted on April 3, 2022

Tel Aviv University welcomes Maryana Sytar – the first Ukrainian graduate research student to arrive as part of TAU’s emergency scholarship program. Maryana was working towards her PhD at the Koretsky Institute of State and Law of Ukraine before the … Continue reading →

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