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On the 100th anniversary of Einstein publishing his theory of relativity, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has unveiled a new statue to the renowned physicist. Albert Einstein was one of the founders of the Hebrew University, a true Zionist and was nominated to be the first President of Israel.

I featured Phree previously , but here is a new video of the amazing Israeli digital pen. Phree has raised over a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter - the target was $100,000.

Scientists at IBM Israel have been upgrading IBM’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) system known as “Watson”. After winning TV’s “Jeopardy” in 2011 and turning into a master chef in 2014, it is now at AI med-school. The Watson Health Cloud can evaluate medical data and make recommendations.

Israel’s Adallom is taking the vital role of ensuring cyber security on the Dropbox for Business platform, the company’s high-end product aimed at enterprise customers. Dropbox has over 300 million users around the world, who upload and store documents, photos, videos, and much more.

In my previous newsletter I featured Israel’s Team8, which launched cyber security startups that had good ideas. One of these is Illusive Networks, which fools hackers to steal fake data to which Illusive Networks has attached an alarm trigger. Clever stuff.

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Security (SIT), the biggest private organization for applied scientific research in Europe, will establish a cyber-security innovation center in Israel. A recent attack on the Bundestag has highlighted the need for Israel’s help.

Israel’s Mellanox Technologies is to supply the components of the precursor of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope - the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world.

Israeli scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed another substance that can clean up after an oil spill. The NHS+ reagent converts the oil into carbon dioxide and water.

Israel’s Ecoppia has installed its robotic solar panel cleaning system on 5 more solar farms in Israel’s south. The system is now cleaning 5 million solar panels each month, that generate 35MW of energy. Desert dust can reduce solar panel efficiency by 40 percent.

Israel’s Netafim, the originator of drip irrigation has, in its 50th year launched its next generation of low-flow drippers. The new design boosts yields under harsh water conditions by combining low flow rates with excellent resistance against clogging.