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Israel’s Stratoscale has won a Red Herring Europe 2016 award for its Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) solution.  Whatever computer hardware your company currently uses, Stratoscale says it can get you up and running using Cloud services in a few minutes.

Israel’s LiveU will provide IP-based live video transmission solutions for more than 80 broadcasters and online streaming customers during the Rio Olympics this summer.  LiveU also transmitted the London Olympics, the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the UK election results.

Israeli cancer charity Ezer Mizion and Israeli startup Click2Speak are piloting an on-screen keyboard operated by eye-tracking.  The goal is a low-cost, multi-lingual, easy-to-use keyboard, for users with impaired motor skills and high cognitive ability. Google has given the project a generous grant.

It is because of Israel’s Aqwise that visitors to India’s Taj Mahal have drinking water.  The Taj Mahal is located in Agra, a city with about 2 million people.  Aqwise helped build a water treatment plant, designed to treat 160,000 cubic meters per day, supplying drinking water to the entire city.

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.