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Israeli NGO ICON organized its sixth annual Innovation Week in Silicon Valley, California. It was attended by some 450 delegates from around the globe. Non-profit ICON bridges the Israeli and San Francisco tech startup communities.

The 18 Israeli bio-techs presenting at an event in Beverly Hills, California all benefited from the Merage Institute Leadership Programs for Israeli Life Science executives and the Elite Entrepreneur Organization - a global network of entrepreneurs.

Amazon has officially launched its Israeli website. Available only in English, it offers prices in shekels and a “ships locally” option. The Israeli retailers that already joined include cosmetics brand GA-DE, fashion retailers Crazy Line and Adika, Nintendo Israel, and skincare brand Sebocalm.

Israel’s Yamit develops and manufactures water purification systems for the industrial, municipal, and agriculture markets. Already selling to the Chinese market, Yamit has just agreed that The Toro Company of Bloomington MN will be its exclusive distributor in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Israeli startup Convizit won Pitango Venture Capital’s TRIFECTA early-stage startup competition in New York and its $1 million first prize. Convizit’s Artificial Intelligence captures, names and categorizes every on-line interaction, to provide a company with complete behavioral data.

I’ve reported several times on Israeli compostable plastic packaging developer TIPA. It has just raised another $25 million of funds to enable TIPA to continue its growth into new territories, and to further develop its portfolio of unique packaging solutions.

I reported previously on Israel’s Foresight and its QuadSight vehicle camera-based vision systems.  Wuhan Guide Infrared (a $2.7 billion Chinese company) will promote Foresight’s systems in China and incorporate Guide’s Infrared solutions into QuadSight.

I reported previously on Mars Inc’s partnership with Jerusalem Venture Partners. George Graham, vice president of the Mars Advanced Research Institute (MARI), just visited Israel as part of Mars’ search to find the most crucial breakthrough solutions for the global food system.

100 Israeli startups met UK business leaders at Calcalist’s third Mind the Tech conference in London. This article features Duality Technologies (data encryption, Supersmart (supermarket scanning), Run:AI (computer optimization), Papaya Global (payroll management), Vicarius (cyber defense), and Loop (youth tech movement).

These potentially life-saving Israeli products can be purchased right now. Lishtot TestDrop Pro Water Tester (); Safe Sea’s jellyfish repellant ; Sunway clothing to stop UV radiation and Elepho’s eClip to prevent baby being left in a hot car ()