Israel’s first public robotic parking lot has opened in Tel Aviv’s Bograshov Street. Parkomat quadruples spaces from 64 to 224. Robotic mechanisms handle the parking and retrieval process, and owners can expect to retrieve their vehicles within 2 minutes. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/h1z119yf2xl … Continue reading →

Intel-backed Ignite DeepTech’s new cohort comprises Shifters, Hush Security, Anchor, Thermagix, Cellint Bio, SpecificAI, MoRF, Ascendra, Pluto Security, and Infros. The cohort also includes a record number of women founders (4 out 10) for the program. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syyees411wl

My apologies for last week’s video that seemed to show Israel building a canal system to bring desalinated water to the Negev desert.  It was an AI fake – too good to be true. The following videos show the actual … Continue reading →

Scientists from Israel’s MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, Tel-Hai College and the Technion found that plant-derived ferulic acid disrupts fungal sterol production, boosts antifungal medicines and reduces crop damage. Annually, some 2.5 million people die from fungal infections. https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/ryzjwsnlbl https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01909-25

Israel’s Cyberwrite beat international tech companies to win the Samsung 2025 Financial C-Lab Outside global innovation competition in the Insurtech category. It also won the People’s Choice award. Cyberwrite’s AI platform manages cyber risk, and forecasts losses. https://www.cyberwrite.com/cyberwrite-has-won-samsungs-global-innovation-competition-for-its-cyber-loss-forecasting-technology/ https://www.cyberwrite.com/

Israel’s Technion Institute enrolled 2,314 new undergraduate students in Oct – 12% more than in 2024; 45% of them women. The most popular programs are Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. https://www.technion.ac.il/en/blog/article/technion-to-open-the-2025-26-academic-year-with-a-rise-in-enrollment-2314-new-undergraduate-students/

Israel is on track to meet its goal of, by 2030, producing a third of its electricity through renewable sources. By 2024’s end, 14.7% of Israel’s electricity used renewable sources.  The government has begun preparing to increase Israel’s targets for … Continue reading →