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The US Department of Defense is one of the sponsors of Israel’s 2016 Combating Terrorism Through Technology challenge program. Two $100,000 prizes will be awarded for innovative technologies that could help combat terrorism or homeland security.

In the Flagship Smartphones Battery Life Challenge in China, the Meizu PRO5 with PowerXtend from Israel’s Lucidlogix was running gaming programs 16 mins after all other screens went dark. It beat the Nexus 6P (3.5hrs), Huawei Mate8 (6.2hrs) and the iPhone6s Plus (6.75hrs).

Israeli startup OwnBackup is the first graduate of this year’s Microsoft Ventures Israel’s Accelerator to receive funding - $3.5 million in fact. OwnBackup provides a data backup and fast recovery service to companies using 3rd party services in the Internet Cloud.

Israeli startup Subflex builds cages for the planned offshore fish farms near Ashdod, that I reported on previously . The submersible, flexible net cage systems will allow for the managed raising of fish in the ocean, providing large, locally grown harvests that will help lower the cost of fish.

Sinclair Community College in Dayton Ohio is the first site outside of Israel to test the water stations from Israel’s Woosh . Woosh customers can take virtually any bottle or cup of their own and fill it with filtered, chilled tap water. The can also cleanse a drinking bottle.

The StorEdge system from Israel’s SolarEdge Technologies is now available in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the United States. With StorEdge, unused solar energy is stored in a battery and used when needed, and for power backup. SolarEdge also reported the shipment of its 10 millionth power optimizer, of which nearly 5 million were sold in 2015.

Here is one of the first glimpses of the Impact unmanned air vehicle (UAV) being developed by Israeli startup Meteor Aerospace.

Israel’s Space Week includes lectures and discussions with several astronauts: NASA's Shannon Walker, Joseph Acaba and former astronaut Garrett Reisman. South Korea's Yi Soyeon, and European Space Agency’s Samantha Cristoforetti, will join them. =

It could be the nearest Israel has been to getting praise from the UK Foreign Office. Ahead of a visit by 11 Israeli scientists, UK Foreign Office deputy chief scientific adviser, Emma Hennessey, said Israel was “an important science partner for the UK”.

Israel Electric Company’s Yosi Shneck is senior VP in charge of computer security. The IEC is known the world over for its expertise in foiling catastrophic cyber events. It works on a model called “cyber everywhere” and a team of 100 full and part-time security experts.