Israel Active

Israel’s XTEND (see previously) and ParaZero (see previously) are partnering to create a fully autonomous next generation autonomous counter‑UAS (C‑UAS) solution to detect, pursue, and capture hostile drones with minimal collateral damage.

Asio Technologies (see previously) is another Israeli startup  countering GPS and GNSS jamming (see previously). Its AeroCore and NavGuard systems use real-time optical matching whereby the drones navigate by comparing live camera feeds against pre-loaded satellite imagery.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Jeffrey Rosenschein has received the prestigious IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. He was selected for his seminal book, “Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation Among Computers (MIT Press, 1994).

A new national competition offers up to NIS 1 million to startups developing breakthrough solutions to secure critical minerals and strengthen Israel’s position in the global supply chain. It focuses on advanced mining tech, recycling materials, and mineral substitutes.  

Bar-Ilan University today held a cornerstone-laying ceremony, attended by Dr. Miriam Adelson, to launch Israel’s first Institute for the Synthesis of Smart Materials (see previously). It will integrate artificial intelligence and robotics, with applications from medicine, electronics to energy.

Researchers at Israel’s Technion Institute have successfully used electron microscopy to measure “dark points” (vortices) within light waves. By doing so, they were able to confirm a prediction from the 1970s that the speed of these points exceeds the speed of light.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have managed to engineer simple autonomous robots that can learn on their own how to cooperate and perform complex tasks as a group. It will help disaster response, marine and space exploration, construction, and other tasks too dangerous for humans.

Israel’s Rafael Labs has developed engines that steer satellites in the world's most critical orbits; their high efficiency allows them to operate for many more years without failure. Rafael is a preferred supplier for agencies including the European Space Agency and the French space agency.

More on Boeing’s partnership with Israel’s Technion to create SAF (sustainable aviation fuel - see previously). Dr. Brendan Nelson, president of Boeing Global, said “If there is one country in the world capable of solving civil aviation’s emissions challenge, it is Israel.”

Prof Erez Hasman of Israel’s Technion Institute, together with his ex-student Prof Bo Wang and his team in China, have discovered that photons of light, when scattered by the random Brownian motion of nanoparticles in a liquid, get locked into an ordered spin. They can then measure the nanoparticles.   (See cover of Nature Materials Feb 2026)