Your breath is like a fingerprint
Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a device to recognize people’s unique respiration, enabling scientists to determine physical health, depression & anxiety. How you breathe is almost as individual as your fingerprint, similar to voice recognition.
Preventing identity fraud via the SIM
Israel’s Unibeam has launched a SIM-based identity verification method that works with both physical SIM cards and eSIMs. Unibeam uses the secure chip in SIM or eSIM cards to cryptographically verify users’ identities. It can prevent AI impersonation scams and fake frauds.
Israel’s first national energy storage institute
A first-of-its-kind initiative, the National Institute for Energy and Electrochemical Storage, was inaugurated at Bar-Ilan University in partnership with Israel’s Technion Institute. It aims to develop energy and climate solutions in batteries, hydrogen, carbon capture, and beyond.
11 of 30 most promising global cyber startups
Notable Capital’s “Rising in Cyber 2025” list of the 30 most promising global cyber startups includes eleven Israeli companies. The list is drawn from a pool of 275 firms nominated by top cybersecurity investors, together with the New York Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley.
New under the sun
Blueberries usually grow in cold climates. But Israeli farmer Amichai planted over 1,000 blueberry trees in Hamra in the hot Jordan Valley - a region where blueberries don’t naturally grow. And with determination and innovation, they’re thriving.
Plugging the data leaks
Israel’s Mind.io (see previously) is marketed as the first-ever data security platform that puts data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot, so a company can automatically identify, detect and prevent data leaks at machine speed.
15 years too early
Israel’s Better Place went bankrupt in 2010 as its car battery swap concept was too novel an idea to catch on. Now Chinese carmaker NIO is setting up a battery switching station network in Israel, expanding the 3,400 it operates in China and 250 others worldwide, mainly in Europe.
Why employees are leaving
Israel’s Elvee is the world's first AI platform to solve employee attrition. Its analysis led to a unique AI solution monitoring 25,000 data points related to employees. It achieves nearly 90% accuracy rate in identifying workplace issues and successfully resolving issues that lead to attrition.
The end of the line
Israel’s Better Online Solutions (BOS) streamlines and enhances supply chain operations with robotic packaging, and RFID labelling and tracking. BOS has just secured new orders worth $270,000 from two food manufacturing customers for automated end-of-line systems.
Pea protein for meat alternatives
Israel’s Meala FoodTech (see previously) has partnered with Swiss-Dutch dsm-firmenich to launch Vertis ™ PB Pea - a groundbreaking texturizing pea protein. It is designed to replace modified binders like hydrocolloids, maintaining natural ingredients in plant-based meat alternatives .