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Israeli energy company Afek has confirmed it has discovered an oil reservoir in the Golan Heights. It has now requested permission from the Israeli Government to drill more exploratory wells in the area.

Output from Israel’s Tamar natural gas field has reached 1 billion Cubic Feet (1BCF) per day.

Beni Lew, from Israel’s Volcani Center, has been advising hundreds of Brazil’s water experts on how to deal with their water shortage. Speaking fluent Portuguese, Lew has encouraged delegations to attend Tel Aviv’s WATEC 2015 in October.

More details here about this major international event in Tel Aviv in October.

Keeping it simple, Israeli inventors look at the world from a child’s point of view and create new, fun toys that are produced and sold all over the world.

The ENTR system from Yavne-based (Swedish-owned) Mul-T-Lock raises the simple door-lock to a hi-tech Bluetooth-enabled device. Using algorithms from US-owned Freescale Israel, the “combination” of global marketing and Israeli-ingenuity “opens up” huge possibilities.

This article features Israeli agro-tech features Galacon - manufacturer of smart monitoring and control irrigation solutions, based on Kibbutz Kfar Blum. It previously won the European Irrigation Association’s “Product of the Year”.

Israeli NGO Shurat Hadin has commissioned the development of a app that allows Android smartphone users to contact their US Senator about the Iran nuclear deal.

Scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute have developed a program and algorithm for estimating the fruit content of an apple tree. The program searches nighttime photographs of illuminated apple trees, counting glints in the foliage from light reflecting off the shiny fruit.

The first 5 minutes of this France24 Tech24 program is entitled “The Start-up Nation: Israel leads in tech innovation.”