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Israel’s Waterfall Security Solutions (reported previously) has deployed its Unidirectional Security Gateways to protect the Shafdan wastewater treatment plant - Israel’s largest treatment plant, producing high-quality irrigation water for Israel’s agricultural industry.

Israel’s Quantum Machines (QM) has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the June 2020 Cool Vendors in Quantum Computing report. QM’s platform enables an entirely new approach to controlling and operating quantum processors, capable of running the most complex algorithms.

Israel’s PerceptionBox helps startups and medium-sized businesses build their development teams, sourcing the best of 100,000 personnel from countries all around the world. It is essentially a matchmaker between visionary entrepreneurs and skilled, remote-working IT professionals.

Jerusalem’s Mobileye (reported previously) and Asian transportation giant WILLER are partnering to develop an autonomous robotaxi service in Japan, Taiwan and across Southeast Asia. Testing in Japan is targeted to begin in 2021 with plans to launch the service in 2023.

The novel, plant-based complete nutrition product for toddlers from Israel’s Else Nutrition (reported previously) has now received the key USDA Organic certification. The product will now be launched in the US and is also available from its new .

Israel’s VoiceITT (reported previously) enables those with cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s, ALS, stroke or other brain disfunction to speak clearly. VoiceITT has just completed a pilot with the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the US State of Tennessee.

Tambour, Israel's leading paint and building material producers, is partnering Israel’s Tera Novel. Tambour will integrate Tera Novel’s anti-viral, anti-bacterial additive "Germs Over," (developed by Israel Institute for Biological Research) with Tambour’s paints, adhesives, plaster, cement etc.

The MyEye device for the visually impaired, from Israel’s OrCam (reported previously) has been upgraded to include Smart Reader. The wearer can now ask the AI device to focus on specific items - e.g. only to read out the vegetarian items on a menu or just a newspaper’s headlines.

Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye, has now founded AI21 labs. Its aim is to revolutionize written communication with artificial intelligence (AI) software that can understand and generate text. Its AI generator HAIM fills in gaps in incomplete sentences. HAIMKE turns bullet-points into sentences.

Israel’s SpaceIL in partnership with members of the Israel Space Agency, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ramon Foundation, have launched a free online space camp for Hebrew speakers aged 7 – 11. It runs Aug 9 – 13, each morning having four different 30-minute activities.