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In the past six years, 101 world-class scientists immigrated to Israel to become university nanotechnology faculty members. Some 750 doctoral students and 850 master’s students currently study nanotechnology and 7,500 nano-scientific papers have been published in the last 3 years.

Advanced Technologies Park in Beer-Sheva will eventually have 16 buildings on 23 acres adjacent to the main Ben Gurion University campus. Confirmed tenants include Deutsche Telekom, EMC-RSA, NESS, Oracle and incubators Elbit Incubit and CyberLabs.

Tel Aviv University’s Porter School of Environmental Studies is a study building for green construction in Israel. Set to open in May, its sustainable structure demonstrates Israel’s green technologies and serves as a living lab for green building practices.

(Thanks to NoCamels.com) Israel’s Cimagine can show you what products will look like in your home before you purchase them. Cimagine lets you download photos from the web or an on-line catalog and place them on a real-time image of your room.

Every night, nearly 100 water-free, energy-independent robots from Israel’s Ecoppia clean the panels at the Ketura Sun solar energy farm in Israel’s Negev desert. They prevent soiling of the panels, which previously reduced energy production by up to 35%.

Israeli mother Debby Elnatan’s son, Rotem, has cerebral palsy. She would not accept that Rotem would never walk, so she invented the Firefly Upsee. The harness places the child on top of the shoes of an adult who wears specially designed sandals. The child “walks” as the grown-up moves.

(Thanks to Uri) Israel’s Ghotit has just released the Android version of its spellchecker for dyslexics.

The Chief Executive of Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems gives a positive report on the company’s progress with developing the Iron Beam system for intercepting rockets and mortars.

Israeli company White Innovation has developed “Ginny”, a printer that could revolutionize the food market. Place a capsule of raw ingredients into one side of the machine. Next, olive oil, milk or water is injected. It then marinates for about thirty seconds and produces a tasty, cheap and healthy feast.

Over 1,200 delegates from 36 countries arrived in Tel Aviv for the Israeli Nanotechnology Conference. Co-chairman Rafi Koriat said that a nanotechnology revolution would be more life changing than the automobile, microtechnology and optics revolutions combined.