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Israeli companies Waterways, Tahal and Anyways Solutions are providing water solutions in Cameroon, Senegal and Ghana. Waterways has signed an agreement with the Water and Sanitation Organization of Africa, which links 36 African countries under its umbrella.

(Thanks to Size Doesn’t Matter) Tel Aviv beat 250 cities from across the globe to receive the World Smart Cities Award, a competition launched as part of the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona.  Winning factors included free citywide wi-fi and its urban digital project.

America’s Department of Defense clearly knows where to look for promising new ideas in the area of high tech defense.  It has teamed up with the MIT Enterprise Forum in Israel to announce the 2015 Combating Terrorism Technology Challenge, with a first prize of $100,000.

(Thanks to Size Doesn’t Matter) Israelis treating Tanda, a two-year old rhino at Ramat Gan safari, for an eye infection have developed a see-through mask to protect the rhino from flies.  Thanks to the “no-fly zone” mask, Tanda no longer rubs her eye on trees.

Israel has inaugurated another accessibility park for children.  The ACP (All the Children’s Park) at Hod Hasharon contains playing devices that allow children with special needs (emotional, social, mental, physical, sensual disabilities) interact with ordinary children.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that the proportion of women (35%) raising capital using the crowdfunding site Kickstarter was far higher than women using more traditional methods.  The reason is that women have better on-line networking skills than men.

More on the emerging relationship between Israel and its majority-Muslim ally. =

Wow!  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a letter to Israel’s envoy to the UN, Ron Prosor, commending the Jewish state for its efforts to combat the outbreak of the Ebola virus. Meanwhile, Israel’s Sys Technologies makes the inflatable isolation tents recently installed in Guinea.  It also developed a stretcher that isolates those suspected of having contracted the virus.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Mikhmoret has nine patients.  They include Mazel (Luck) who is blind and Hofesh (Freedom) with his artificial fins.  They will stay and hopefully breed, but the other seven could eventually return to the sea.

(Thanks to Margie) I erroneously reported that Professor Tamar Peretz was the first female head of an Israeli hospital.  In fact, the medical director of HaEmeq medical center in Afula (Dr Orna Blondheim) is a woman, and so apparently is the head of the Carmel medical center in Haifa.