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Korea and Israel are to work together in developing a system of growing grapes through utilization of amphibious and commercial UAVs and big data.  They will also co-develop a grape cultivation and growth control system for entering the new Chinese wine market.

Three Israeli startups have won through to the finals of this year’s Shengjing Awards in China.  They are Boomerang (cancer therapy ), NiniSpeech (stutter cure ) and AerialGuard (drone navigation).  Israel’s won last year’s award.

Israeli-managed Stockton Group has signed a major agreement with Syngenta as the exclusive global distributor of Stockton’s new bio-fungicide technology based on tea tree oil for the control of several diseases in ornamental crops.

Israel’s Brenmiller Energy has teamed up with Spanish company Isolux in a tender for construction of a 150-megawatt solar power station in South Africa.  Brenmiller's energy storage systems will account for half of the project's estimated $500 million overall cost.

Israel’s VisIC Technologies develops and markets high power transistors and modules based upon the semiconductor compound Gallium Nitride (GaN). VisIC’s mission is to replace most of the less efficient Silicon products used in power conversion systems.  

The world's new fastest supercomputer is Sunway TaihuLight in Wuxi, China.  But its 93 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) are accelerated by its use of the interconnect InfiniBand solutions of Israel’s Mellanox Technologies.  InfiniBand connects 41.2 percent of the TOP500 systems.

Cybersecurity professionals, policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs and academics, including some from INTERPOL and NATO, attended Tel Aviv’s 6th Annual International Cybersecurity Conference (also known as Cyber Week). They discussed threats facing the international community and the latest advances in cyber technology.

At cybersecurity startup Preempt’s Israeli R&D center it has developed a firewall that not only detects suspicious behavior, but responds to neutralize any threat in real time.  It will decide whether to block the attacker, notify management or challenge the attacker to authenticate.

To mark World Environment Day, the Israeli Union of Environmental NGOs - Life and Environment, presented a Green Globe to Yosef Abramowitz - the Israeli CEO of solar energy company Energiya Global.  Other winners included Greeneye in the Business category.  

Israel’s Lumus produces optical engines - a critical part of Augmented Reality (AR) products.  Its customers build AR glasses, visors, goggles, and headsets including Thales, Atheer and DAQRI.  Lumus has just raised $15 million in new funding.