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The Qoros Sedan 3 has become the first Chinese car ever to win a five-star score from Euro NCAP. Qoros is a joint venture of Israel Corporation and China's Chery Automobile.

Israeli-born Arieh Warshel shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Martin Karplus and Michael Levitt for their 1970s computer models for predicting chemical processes. Levitt has Israeli, British and US citizenship. All three are Jewish. Plus, Belgian’s Nobel laureate for Physics Francois Englert is a Sackler Professor at the Tel Aviv University School of Physics and Astronomy.

Israel’s internationally acclaimed conference on Water Technology and Environmental Control takes place later this month in Tel Aviv. It will be preceded by the Cleanvest Summit, where recent technological breakthroughs from the Israeli water industry will be revealed.

Israel’s Anagog monitors mobile phones’ sensors to detect parking spaces that are about to be vacated – in real time. It is also cooperating with Finland’s PARX, the owner of Easy Park, which has users in 130 countries.

I hope that you’ve been following Gordon Robertson’s fascinating series on Israel; made for CBN. Here is his 11 min video on Israeli Technology.

At the first-ever International Brain Technology Conference in Tel Aviv, President Shimon Peres will present a check for $1 million to the winner of the Global B.R.A.I.N. (Breakthrough Research And Innovation in Neurotechnology) contest. The finalists have developed applications that interface with the brain.

The yield from this year’s date crop in the Arava desert region is expected to reach 7,500 tons - an increase of 20% over last year’s harvest. The high yields have been accompanied by a 20% reduction in water consumption. Israel’s total annual date crop is expected to reach around 34,000 tons.

(Thanks to Size Doesn’t Matter and GreenProphet) A group of friends from Tel Aviv got so tired of lugging enormous locks to foil would-be bicycle thieves that they got together to design what may be the world’s only fashionable solution: the Foldylock. The video resembles a Clint Eastwood movie.

Half of Israel’s electricity now comes from natural gas – mainly from the new Tamar offshore gas field. Israel Electric Corporation announced that this is its cleanest year ever for environmental quality and the production of clean, green electricity.

Israel Corporation subsidiary IC Green Energy has inaugurated a facility in New Jersey to produce gasoline from natural gas. The plant can produce up to 100,000 gallons (440,000 liters) of gasoline a year. Automobiles will be able to use the lower cost, less emissions fuel without any modifications.