Monthly Archives: November 2024

Manchester fans are flying

Israel’s Arkia Airlines has a new twice-weekly service between Tel Aviv and Manchester, scheduled deliberately for fans of Manchester United and Manchester City to watch their teams. https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/hjd5ni11uc https://www.arkia.co.il/destinations/manchester

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New industrial complex for war-torn Kibbutz

Kibbutz Kfar Aza, devastated by Hamas on Oct 7, has signed a deal with Reches Real Estate and the Zadok Group to build a $67 million 42,000 sqm multipurpose industrial complex. It will provide returning Kibbutz residents with jobs and … Continue reading

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Recycling lithium batteries

Israel’s Batte-Re receives used Li-ion batteries from electric vehicles (cars, buses, scooters etc.) and processes them to generate a valuable (nickel, manganese, cobalt, and lithium) powder, plus copper and aluminum. All the metals are sold, and the powder makes more … Continue reading

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Saving the coral reefs

This article describes the latest Ben Gurion University method to repair damaged coral reefs (see here previously). A “coral reef ecosystem transplant” (aCRET) involves transferring tiles containing invertebrates and microorganisms from a healthy reef to a damaged reef, then re-attaching … Continue reading

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Technion 101

The Technion opened its 101st academic year on Nov 10 with approximately 3,100 new students: 2,100 in undergraduate programs and 1,000 in graduate programs. In total, some 15,000 students are enrolled at the Technion, of which about 1,000 are currently … Continue reading

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Documenting Zoom meetings

The AI features of Meeting Insights from Israel’s AutoCodes (see here previously) were previously only available to Microsoft Teams users. Now the solution will support Zoom meetings. If selected, Meeting Insights will automatically take notes, produce summaries and much more. … Continue reading

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Israel as a global desalination model

As Israel’s largest desalination plant Soreq II nears completion, this article highlights that 100% of Israel’s drinking water is desalinated. 55% of all Israeli water is desalinated. Israel even uses desalinated water to top up the Kinneret and exports water … Continue reading

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Head in the clouds

At Israel’s 2024 Infrastructure, Energy, and Transportation Conference, Israel’s Gadfin (see here previously) exhibited its hydrogen-powered long-range UAVs / drones which transports medical supplies up to 150kg to hospitals. In Croatia, Gadfin’s delivery network connects the country’s 50 islands. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-825822

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Friend or foe

Israel’s Sentrycs & Israel’s Third Eye are jointly developing a next-generation drone identification solution. It combines Sentrycs’ cutting-edge passive drone detection technology with Third Eye’s advanced Electro-Optic imaging systems. It can also detect if a drone has a payload.. https://sentrycs.com/news/sentrycs-and-third-eye-systems-partner/

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Delivering pizza by drone in a war

After Oct 7, Israel’s National Drone Initiative had to change direction and start registering active drones on a live network. The 11 drone companies involved have run more than 24,000 test flights in experiments of increasing difficulty to learn how … Continue reading

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