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Israeli startup Ayala Water & Ecology provides a solution to water purification which lies within nature itself. Its flagship product, called Natural Biological System (NBS), uses containers full of plants to act as a biological filter for wastewater treatment.

Israeli startup Ituran uses Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs / drones) to track down vehicles stolen in Israel and then taken to Palestinian Authority towns.  It helped to keep car theft down to 5400 vehicles between January and May - 19% less than in the same period in 2015.

Israeli startup MeQ Inc has developed earphones that adapt to your unique hearing condition.  The Even Headphones incorporate an “earprint” facility which allow the listener to lower the volume and protect against further hearing problems from being over-exposed to loud music.

Israeli startup Arbe Robotics has a solution to prevent collisions between the increasing number of unmanned air vehicles (drones). It uses radar technology -  radio frequencies - to help drones detect objects and avoid crashing.  Arbe won the TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-Off event in Tel Aviv.

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.