Israel Active

Ori Segal, CEO of Israeli startup MUGO, explains on ILTV how his new app synchronizes a user’s music playlists with their friend’s favorites, allowing for the instant sharing of music.

Asher Bennett - brother of Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennet – has founded Tevva Motors in the UK.  The company is building emission-free delivery trucks based on Israeli submarine technology. Tevva has received orders from UPS, DHL and Kuehne+Nagel.

Israel’s Taranis has developed a precision agriculture intelligence platform to allow farmers to predict and prevent detrimental threats to their crops. Its systems manage millions of acres of farmland in Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Russia and the United States.

A wearable blanket now available on El Al flights has won an innovation award at the TravelPlus Amenities competition in Hamburg, Germany. The blanket was designed Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka of Israel’s LyLy Design Studio.

Israel’s Nova Measuring Instrument makes metrology systems to enable semiconductor, integrated circuit and optical CD manufacturers to develop reliable products.

I featured previously Israel’s LivingGreen which markets “The Living Box” system for anyone to produce up to 30 different organic vegetables using only water (hydroponics) and solar energy.  No soil or fertilizer.  In this new video, CEO Nitzan Solan describes the system.

Dr. Noa Ruschin-Rimin founded Israeli startup Grid4C, which uses Artificial Intelligence to detect problems at both electricity producers and their home customers. Texas’s electric company Direct Energy uses Grid4C's products for 1.5 million of its customers.

15,000 students from 33 countries took part in the FIRST STEM Championships in Houston, Texas.  Of the 23 Israeli teams, category wins and awards went to Arad, Emek Hefer, Binyamina (2), Holon (2), Dimona, Misgav, Kfar Yona, Tel Sheva and Herzliya,

Israeli startup SolarPaint, based on Kibbutz Nahsholim in northern Israel, has developed “electrode-net” (ultra-thin wireframe - similar to mosquito netting) and nanoparticle-infused coating to generate solar power from roofs, walls and, eventually, even roads.

Israel’s Duchifat-2 is one of 28 Cubesats from 23 countries built for the EU’s QB50 Thermosphere research program. It is the only one to be built by high-school students. Duchifat-2 is currently on board the International Space Station and will be placed into orbit in June.