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Two good articles on Israel’s wastewater recycling and desalination.

A new Israeli search engine called EyeIn will retrieve relevant visual Internet content from global events in real time. It uses social media and sophisticated algorithms to view an event from different locations in the audience or elsewhere. EyeIn was conceived by Moshe Hogeg, founder of Mobli.

Virtual shopping has arrived, thanks to Israel’s Tridshops. The advanced platform allows retailers to quickly set up an on-line store where shoppers “move” on a virtual walkway past 3D images of products which they can pick up, examine and manipulate through 360 degrees. A pilot store launches shortly.

Israel’s Opgal has just upgraded its Therm-App product that turns your smartphone into a professional thermal imaging system. It now includes full radiometric capability, multiple color palettes, video and sound recording.

Fiat Chrysler (FCA) has announced the first-ever natural gas vehicle for the Israeli market. The Iveco Stralis 4×2 heavy truck is a huge tractor-trailer-sized truck, powered by an Iveco Cursor 8 Compressed Natural Gas engine. A natural gas powered bus will also be imported.

The 2015 Israel Mobile Summit was held in Tel Aviv as part of Israel Mobile Week. Its popularity reflected the fact that most of the multinationals in the mobile industry, from Samsung to Apple to Huwaei, have R&D labs in Israel.

I included details about Israel’s HARBO technologies in my latest blog. Harbo’s floating boom circles an oil spill, allowing it to be removed before it devastates the coast. Good news for World Oceans Day.

Israel’s Hinoman is cultivating Mankhai – the world’s smallest vegetable. Mankhai contains 45% protein, is high in vitamins, low in carbohydrate, fat, sugar and salt and is GMO, gluten and pesticide free. Hinoman promotes Mankhai as a sustainable substitute for meat and seafood.

Israel has signed an agreement to share best practices on water with the World Bank.

Israeli water technology experts went to Sacramento (twinned with Israel’s Ashkelon), to demonstrate smart ways to secure water from a desert. These included recycling wastewater, desalination, detecting leaky pipes and different charging structures for water purity. US cities Los Angeles and Beverly Hills are also partnering with Israel for water conservation.