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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.”

Tel Aviv hosted the sixth annual City Summit as part of its DLD Innovation Festival. The main debate was about how city residents engaged with the municipality in the Technological Age. Tel Aviv won the World Smart Cities Award in 2014.

Israeli startup Lishtot won the StartUp Open Israel 2015 competition run by the Global Entrepreneurship Network. It will now represent Israel in November’s global finals. Lishtot’s low-cost product detects water pollutants in a 5-second test, based on the electromagnetic properties of water.    (See why this could be a vital product - )

Israel’s largest international hi-tech event, the DLD (Digital Life Design) Innovation Festival Sep 6-12, has attracted huge numbers of power players from the world’s leading tech and finance firms, all eager to get a piece of the Startup Nation’s action.

Israeli food conglomerate Tnuva is joining the investors of TechForGood’s Rally accelerator. Tnuva hopes that the startups within the accelerator can increase its exposure to breakthrough technologies in the food-tech sector.

Here is a brief account by Seth M Siegel of the history of Israel’s work since the 1950s to tackle the scourge of drought in the developing world. Mr Siegel’s new book “Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World is published this week.

News of the Israeli-developed Skysaver escape harness that allows you to evacuate safely from the window of a high-rise building . SkySaver has received final certification from the Standards Institute of Israel and officially launched on Aug 3rd.