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150 Israelis and Americans from Birthright, MIT and the IDF’s elite 8200 unit held a virtual hackathon called “HackCorona”. They designed video innovations, a digital services platform, an errand volunteering platform, distance learning and other virtual on-line facilities.

Scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute and other organizations have developed a method for monitoring, identifying, and predicting the coronavirus’s spreading zones. It involves patients answering a one-minute questionnaire. 60,000 Israelis completed the form in just one week.

Israel’s Hillel Furstenberg is being awarded a share of the Abel Prize and 7.5 million Norwegian Kroners “, for pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.” The Abel is the Mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

As reported here previously Google Israel developed the “Go” app that reads aloud web content. The Israeli team has now upgraded the app, now named “Read It”. New features include a human voice and translation into 42 languages.  You can even say to your Google Assistant, “Hey Google, Read it!”.

Israeli compostable flexible packaging company TIPA Corp was named in 2nd place in global network Forward Fooding’s Food Tech 500 – “the world’s first definitive list of AgriFoodTech talent.”

Israel’s Urecsys develops air treatment technologies for optimizing air quality within residential and commercial buildings. Urecsys predicts and detects pollution levels and then activates building controls to protect workers and residents. Urecsys has just raised $4 million in funds.

Israel’s Fiverr started as a marketplace for people selling services for five dollars ).  Its freelancers have since earned over $1 billion, selling their quality products and services globally - without leaving their computers. It is even using AI to help them design company logos.

Israel’s Public Security Ministry is installing a water control system in Israeli prisons to save ‎‎hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of water. It is to prevent prisoners deliberately leaving taps running in showers and bathrooms.

Before the recent restrictions on large events, Israeli youth joined with teens from the United States to compete in Israel’s largest robotics competition ever.

Many state-of-the-art appliances can be connected to the Internet and controlled from a smartphone app. But setting these up can be complicated. Those manufacturers that have partnered with Israel’s Co-pilot are now able to use the service to detect your problem and guide you through the process.