Israel Active

Israel’s Motionize has developed sensors and proprietary algorithms to help kayak paddlers improve their performance.  Motionize's product is already helping the US team train for the Rio Olympics.

Tel Aviv - the Smartest City in the World in 2014 - is leading an integration of Israeli travel apps into 12% of the city’s hotels. The apps, Howazit, Dotz and Aspectiva, will communicate between guests and the hotel and give tourists details of activities and events.

Chiller Smart Management System from Israel’s Elencon Systems analyzes weather and location; predicts hourly conditions and switches off air-conditioners without sacrificing comfort. The annual $150,000 cost of cooling the Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv City Center has been slashed by $50,000.

Comedy.com is a new mobile app designed for high-quality, short-form comedy videos.  Founded by Israelis Barak Shragai and Dor Mizrahi, the startup just launched its free app on both iOS and Android.  Comedy.com has just raised $1.5 million of funding.

Hundreds of kids gathered in Tel Aviv to compete for the title of Israeli Cyber Champ 2016.  The massive gaming project competition aims to encourage students to choose tech as a career.  One sponsor is Israel’s SanDisk – inventor of “disk on key” and a sponsor of the Rio Olympics.

Some of the Israeli nanotech startups featured at Jerusalem’s Innovations in Advanced Materials conference have never been mentioned previously in my newsletter.  They are BioNanoSim and TrioxNano (therapy delivery), Voyager Medical (surgical sutures), OphRx (eye-drops), Neteera (bio-sensors). Neoprol (anesthetics), NanoAF (antibacterial coating) and MercuRemoval (toxic chemical removal).

Top medical researchers (250 British, 100 Israeli) attended the annual BIRAX Conference in Oxford, England.  BIRAX (Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange) focuses on regenerative medicine to fight diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s and heart conditions.

A new video showing how Israeli water technology has developed in the last 50 years to produce 700% more crops with the same quantity of this precious resource.

Israel is to install emission filters on 500 garbage trucks.  They will filter out 97 percent of the cancer-causing fumes emitted from the diesel trucks, according to the Environmental Protection Ministry, at a cost of NIS 10 million.

You’ll be pleased to hear that Israel isn’t contributing to any of the perceived chemical impacts on climate change.  In fact, Israel is one of the major innovators of solutions to famine and drought.