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Five female engineering students studying at Ben Gurion University have received Intel Academic Excellence Awards.  They are Liron Agmon (Chemical), Liel Cohen (Industrial), Shiran Navah (Electrical & Computer), Rachel Abu (Industrial) and Naama Shukran (Electro-Optical).

This blog highlights some of the Israeli startups leading the way in technologies designed to improve the educational progress of students with learning difficulties.

Israeli Psychoanalyst, counter terrorist expert, international writer and newsletter subscriber Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin has written “The Jihadi Dictionary”.   This groundbreaking work is an essential intelligence tool for law enforcement. It is being used by US Psychological operations (PSYOP).

Israel’s cabinet has approved a plan to allocate some £200 million in loans and grants for projects that will lead to energy efficiency in industry, business and local governments.  It is expected to save the Israeli economy $8 billion, cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce pollution.

Beer Sheva is becoming a cyber-city to cement Israel’s place as a major digital power.  No other country is so purposefully integrating its private, scholarly, government and military cyber-expertise.

The Arava International Center for Agricultural Training (AICAT) hosts over 1,000 students every year from across Asia and Africa at its 10-month agriculture work-study program.  In 2014, AICAT introduced an 18-month-long international master’s degree in plant sciences.

The senior management of Raja Constanta, Romania’s largest water utility, visited Israel with an intention to implement Israeli water technologies to improve Romania’s infrastructure.  Currently only half the 22 million Romanians are connected to municipal water or wastewater systems.

Israel’s Desalitech won the Breakthrough Water Technology Company of the Year award at the 2016 Global Water Awards in Abu Dhabi.  Desalitech’s closed-circuit reverse osmosis desalination system counters the slow build-up of salinity in aquifers and waterways.

British engineering giant Dyson has linked up with Israel’s BreezoMeter to allow users of Dyson's new Pure Cool Link fan to compare indoor air quality, humidity, temperature and pollen count with outdoors. Nearly 9,500 Londoners die annually from exposure to pollutants.

Professor Jerson Kelman is CEO of SABESP - the water company for Sau Paulo, Brazil’s financial center, with a population three times that of Israel.  He has come to Israel to learn how Israeli tech can help SABESP overcome Sau Paulo’s water shortages.