Israel Active

(Thanks to NoCamels.com) Israeli start-up Smartli has developed an automatic grocery shopping system that uses sensors to track the items missing from your fridge. It then generates a shopping list, and ensures that these items are delivered directly to your door at your preferred time.

In a few months, Israel’s BrightSource expects to turn on its 377-megawatt solar thermal farm in the California desert. At about the same time, it will begin work on a 121-megawatt solar thermal energy plant in Israel’s Negev Desert.

The Pentagon has announced that Israel’s Elbit, is to be the sole supplier of helmet mounted display systems (HDMS) for all 4,000 F35 stealth aircraft. The deal is worth more than $1 billion over 10 years. Already 100 F35 pilots have tested and approved the new helmet.

If a city wants to change its parking policies then this simulator from a team of Tel Aviv University researchers will help understand how these changes will affect motorists’ demand and behaviour.

The Israeli-developed phone, called Project Ray, vocalises any icon or name touched by a sliding finger and activates it only when the finger is lifted. It has a special GPS for the blind and an audiobook interface to Israel’s Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped.

I reported in January the discovery by Hebrew University scientists of the natural, non-toxic pesticide made from the yeast growing on strawberry leaves. Now Israel’s agro-tech giant Makhteshim Agan is working with HU’s commercial company Yissum to develop the bio-control agent.

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.

Here is an opportunity to view CBN’s excellent series by Gordon Robertson about Israel's remarkable innovation and ingenuity to produce breakthroughs in products and processes that affect the way we live our every day lives. The 5 parts feature Agriculture, Water, Medicine, Clean & Green and Technology.

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.