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Israel’s Anydish enables healthcare professionals to develop personal nutrition plans for their patients – a kind of culinary prescription. It can also be used by individuals to take control of their eating habits and improve their medical condition and wellbeing.

Tel Aviv University researchers have registered a new family of snakes, dating back 50 million years and corrected a previous wrong classification. Micrelapidae comprises 3 distinct species, one of which resides in and around Israel. The other two live in East Africa.

Israel’s BugEra is enhancing the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) to produce 60% oil. BugEra aims to supplement the biofuels market, saving precious land resources and helping to eradicate organic waste. BSF larvae also makes animal feed and may alleviate symptoms of ulcerative colits.

Israel’s Addionics (see previously) has just inaugurated its new Tel Aviv production facility for its advanced electric vehicle batteries. Addionics expects to achieve a 1 GWh production capacity by 2025. Its clients are some of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers in Europe and the US.

Havatzelet is the first Israeli school to use artificial intelligence (AI) to teach English to kindergartners. Amit (“companion” in Hebrew) is to be rolled out to 70 Israeli schools in September.

The Israel Space Agency (ISA) has signed an agreement with NASA to cooperate on the SpaceIL Beresheet2 lunar Mission. NASA will participate in the selection of landing sites and join the mission’s science team. It is also expected to coordinate with the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

My Real Jerusalem Streets friend Sharon went straight from the OurCrowd summit to a tour of nine Israeli startups. It included Beit Shemesh’s Bioplasmer (biodegradable plant pots); QD-SOL (Solar-powered splitting hydrogen from water); Autonomous Pivot; and Rewind.

This must be the “final frontier” in Artificial Intelligent text generation. Israel’s Empathy (see previously) has developed “Finding Words” – a tool that helps mourners honor their loved ones by composing the initial draft of a thoughtful and comprehensive obituary.

Israel’s Electriq-Global (see previously) is to build a manufacturing plant in the Port of Amsterdam to turn hydrogen gas into powder. The powder can then be transported and then turned into electricity by Electriq Global’s special dehydrogenation system. The plant will cost some 50-million Euros.

Israel’s Techtonic is investing over $140 million to build one of Israel's largest data centers. The 15,000 sqm underground facility in Beit Shemesh aims to be completed by mid-2025. It is intended to be resilient against malfunction and missiles.